Sweden to receive 1,900 quota refugees in 2012
Published: 30 Jan 12 15:01 CET | Print version
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Sweden plans to give priority to refugees from Somalia and Eritrea in its efforts to resettle 1,900 United Nations (UN) refugees in 2012.
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Each year, the Riksdag allocates funding allowing the agency to bring between 1,700 and 1,900 refugees to Sweden under the UN’s quota programme.
Just like the previous two years, the agency will focus mainly on the areas of conflict on the Horn of Africa – but also people who are escaping unrest in north Africa.
The majority are Somalis fleeing to Kenya and Djibouti, but also Eritrean and Ethiopian citizens who are now in Sudan.
Sweden has cooperated with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) since 1950 regarding refugee quotas.
This year Sweden allocated 250 places for people who are forced to flee from fast emerging conflicts.
This is a resource that will only be used when necessary, and has come about since the UNHCR increased the need for quick-relief efforts.
350 places were set aside for other emergency measures.
Werner pointed out that Sweden is the biggest recipient of refugees in Europe, and that the refugees are often forced to live for long times under appalling physical conditions and mentally desperate circumstances.
“It is people who have been in refugee camps for more or less long periods of time and who don’t have the chance to get out in any other way,” she said.
In terms of the novelty of the 250 places reserved for those affected by so called ‘flare-up’ conflicts, Werner points out that it allows Sweden flexibility in the areas where the refugees come from.
“We won’t need to be locked to specific locations, but we can act in the areas where UNHCR say are in need of the most help,” she said.
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The people actually responsible for finding decent homes for all these people must rage in frustration as another 1 900 get shoved into a clearly overwhelmed system. Sweden seems to be full up already. No more for a while thank you very much.
We need MOOORE!! I'm sure Swedish tax payers can save the whole world.
Therefore, let us welcome those desperate people and share our available resources with them. Thanks migrationsverket for the efforts and help to the world citizens. Tx
Swedes has sufficient problems of it's self and does not need these people. There is ample unemployment and serious crime is rising at incredible levels.
If you let these people in, it needs to be under very strict conditions. And they need to be forced to work and pay back what they take from the Swedish tax-payer.
- Stick them in Norrland and revoke the right of relocation within Sweden. Leaving the country is fine, but we do not need more Malmo's.
- Immediate return to country of origin upon committing a crime.
- Do not provide Swedish citizenship to them or their children until after 10 years of living and working in Sweden without a criminal record.
- No more then 6 months of tax-payer sponsorship, if they can't land a paying job and provide for their family within that timeframe, immediate return to country of origin.
- Forced learning of the Swedish and English language.
- Provide a minor financial compensation for not participating in a religion.
That will filter out the rotten apples from those actually wanting to build up a life somewhere else and work for it.
Here is some fun fact,
Spending millions of SEK to teach them Swedish language, provide home, medical and other benefits, and in return you get criminal minded peoples with no positive output. If you don't believe me see the last two years newspapers.
My suggestion, rather than spending millions on them why don't you spend even half or less on International students. Who spend two years to get education from a Swedish University, speak fluent English and most of them know Swedish as well. Who already knows the Swedish culture, behaves well, decreases the crime ratio but also would be more beneficial in terms of paying more tax, increases the innovation and research sector of Sweden and also the Export sector of Sweden as well.
Because the more the Export, the more increase in GDP of a country which increases the job market and decreases the recession that many EU countries are facing these days. So think about it!
as a taxpayer funding this government subsidised industry you all should be demanding this...
as good as you feel, Sweden, with all your aid, the bleeding heart routine doesn't work when there's blood on your hands...
@ Rod Munch hilarious!!!! I loved it!!!
If this news was about 1900 immigrants from Eastern Europe, probably no one would have spent their precious time writing comments.
Interestingly, I NEVER SEE Somalians or African Blacks begging in the trains, BUT WHITE Eastern EUROPEANS do .... Probably Swedish govt doesn't want beggars :)
My problem is the fake refugees. My problem is that Sweden is the one country in Europe that takes in the most refugees. Either countries like England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy needs to bring in more or Sweden has to cut back.
@ storstark
Sweden has no blood on their hands. It`s not Sweden or Swedes that make conflicts.
Trotting out the 'ol "You are responsible b/c you send them weapons" line is not going to help your argument. The thing is, there always has to be a willing seller AND buyer. Why don't you tell them to stop buying the weapons?
And to help you out Storstark, try this....point out all of the good that refugees from that region of the world have done for Sweden. Find some statistics or evidence that shows something positive and use that as your argument. That is how you win debates.
If there were a Nobel Prize for foolishness, we'd have a winner!
But now compare this to the fact that Sweden kicks out foreign students who have successfully achieved their studies in Sweden!!! According to the law once you have finished your studies in Sweden you are not even entitled to stay 1 more day.
How pathetic!
Of Sweden's 9.3 million inhabitants, 18 percent have passed the retirement age of 65 and are pensioners. This number is projected to rise to 23 percent by 2030, at which time about one out of five Swedes is expected to be of retirement age.
Who will look after this reality, while the birth rate is driving down? We need more people producing and not consuming.
Is this program a sociological experiment to put people in as foreign a culture as possible and then study the results? What is the goal and objective of such an expensive program, when there are far better alternatives? Importation of welfare recipients isn't in anyone's interest, no matter which side of the transaction you stand on. An absolutely ludicrous program.
Some limits need to be put in place, many of such were listed by Abe L such as:
'- Immediate return to country of origin upon committing a crime.
- Do not provide Swedish citizenship to them or their children until after 10 years of living and working in Sweden without a criminal record.
- No more then 6 months of tax-payer sponsorship, if they can't land a paying job and provide for their family within that timeframe, immediate return to country of origin.'
I don't agree with the religion one, because freedom of religion should be promoted, but...not that religion.
@Ali Abdi
It's not a mix of culture. A mix of cultures would be like Canada, where there are Jews, Chinese, Blacks, Irish, Italian, Greek, French, British, Koreans living in peace
That's not the case here. It is simply your people, coming en masse to Sweden, and slowly replacing the native culture. It is similar to how the British settled on the lands of the Indian peoples. I don't mean to offend you, but seeing it any other way is turning a blind to the truth.
Giving Nobel prize on one hand and selling arms silently on the the other hand wont make your hands clean...
Will the number of places refugees for 2012 be reduced to 1 820 in consequence? Or will Migrationsverket put them all up in the back office?
I can't really understand why they wanna chuck out well educated international students without providing jobs stating they dont speak swedish but wanna bring in only refugees?
I am not against the Government who are bringing in poor people who are suffering...Good to help poor people, But at the same time, they should also provide jobs for educated people or atleast give them work permit for atleast one year.
Sweden doesnt have proper vision and direction..they are digging hole for themselves!!
You are making some comments here that are not very well thought-out at all. Regarding your comment above....do you really think that Swedes feel more threatened by an educated, Western immigrant than by refugees? Ask the next girl you see if she is more comfortable walking down a street that has a group of North African men or a street that has all Western, educated men. Ask that question to 10 women and I will bet you any amount of money that all 10 say Western, educated men.
Bec. they don't want them either. and other african countries are as poor or as corrupted as where they came from.
2. Claim refugee status in Sweden
3. PROFIT!!!!
"More than 19,000 Syrians have fled to Turkey since a brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests hit northern Syria in June."[1]
nobody humiliates them simply belonging to a race, religion or nobody thinks that they a burden to the society. The same case applies for emigrated Georgians (a christian (majority) society from Caucasus) or any other nationality. I am horrified with the racist view of some commentators simply because I don't remember that I chose whom I born. But, to be honest, immigrants should also do their best (to learn Swedish fluently, to contribute by means of intellectual property) to integrate with the society.
[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/world/middleeast/refugees-from-syria-settle-in-for-long-wait-in-turkey.html
it is all about fear that if there are more refugees in this country, who'll take care ppl like Rod Munch. By the way, Rod Munch where do u come from ? obviously u r not Swedish :)
A representative from the local special group of Arbetsförmedlingen, specially established to find work for invandrare, said that many Somali refugees could neither read nor write their native tongue. I suggest that their obtaining "betyg" from SFI or SAS will not equip them for the Swedish job market.
Angela Merkel recently stated in the German Parliament that their attempts to integrate Turkish immigrants had failed despite Turkey having provided "guest workers" since the 1950s! Not good news for Sweden's attempts at integration.
Lastly, the Swedish government itself is well aware that invandrare are experiencing social exclusion. Perhaps they should read "Swedes as others see them" for elucidation.
It's taken me, a northern European, almost ten years to become integrated into Swedish society and to understand generally how it ticks. Not only do Somalis face extreme cultural differences, but they come from a country that is perceived as there most corrupt in the world. I don't think that the majority of Somalis have much of a chance to become integrated; perhaps some of them don't want to integrate.