Word: nesim
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Walking along Rue de Cornavin, near Geneva's main train station, Nesim, a 34-year-old immigrant from Turkey, stops to look at a poster plastered to a wall. It shows five dark-colored hands grabbing a stack of Swiss passports above the phrase STOP MASS NATURALIZATIONS...
...message is not lost on Nesim, whose dream of becoming a Swiss citizen is turning into a nightmare. Although he has fulfilled all the criteria necessary for naturalization - a 12-year residency requirement, fluent language skills, solid employment record as a mason, and good cultural integration - "I feel ostracized," he says. "I wonder whether I'll ever be 'good enough' to become Swiss...