March 21, 2010
Published: 20 Jan 10 17:12 CET
Updated: 21 Jan 10 12:36 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24496/20100120/
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Adjusting to life in the far north of Sweden can be tough at the best of times, but coming as a refugee presents an extra set of challenges. Malin Nyberg speaks to two women who are more than happy to adapt.
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(By the way, it's "Arctic Circle" not polar circle.
Good luck to them.
Hat's off to The Local for showing the xenophobes that immigrants are not all the same.
Good point.
However, something you need to realise.
The far right also want rid of Euroepan non swedes. Get one drunk and you will realise what I am talking about.
That will be Phase II on the far right agenda. I've heard.
Though I didn't know there are talkative people living somewhere in Sweden!!! Very good news , I should take a vacation to Kiruna ... these people may be considered as national heritage or something !
All of them are poor and live in violence. There are also Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Chad with poor people and bad living conditions. Why not take on 50 million from there?
Sweden has this habit of supporting "freedom fighters" Mugabe/Amin type and then running around collecting money FOR and refugees FROM the "liberated" countries.
I am really glad for the 2 refugees that adjusted here of course. The problem is that this is so rare that one needs to write an article in a newspaper about it.
"So rare that one needs to write an article in a newspaper about it."
*laughs* Oh dear, that was funny!
You don't know many immigrants, do you?
The majority actually *does* adjust to a life in sweden. And become employed. And pay their taxes.
It's just that, as usual in the media, people who just get along with their life aren't interesting to write about, except for when you need to do a human interest story, so you rarely hear of them.
Do many have a hard time adjusting? Yes.
Do some fail to adjust? Yes.
However, the last part is a *minority*.
Even in the ghetto suburbs to Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö where the immigrants are proportionally the most numerous and have the most problems it isn't as bad as it's usually made out to be. The unemployment rate is rarely above 50%, which while abominably large still means that over half do have a job.
Admittedly the adjustment is harder there because they can frequently remain with enough people that they don't have to adjust as much (which can be scary as well as hard, particularly if you're old).
Not that either the media, swedish democrats and their ilk, nor the politicians cares much. They rather talk about the problems rather than trying to solve them in a constructive way (obviously I don't think "send all the brown people away" constitutes a constructive solution. ;) ).