Refugees who go on holiday in their homeland keep making headlines. In recent years, however, only one nationality was in focus: the Eritreans.

The fact that many refugees travel back to their home countries for a few weeks is shown by the latest figures from the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). In 2017, the authority deprived 231 people of their asylum status because they traveled illegally to their home country. That’s an increase of 60 percent over the previous year. “The SEM carefully follows every clue,” says Lukas Rieder, spokesman for the State Secretariat for Migration.

But who now assumes that the authorities especially Eritreans data is mistaken. Eritrea is missing from the top three nations. You have to scroll down the rankings until the name Eritrea still appears on rank 8. READMORE