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'Give foreign PhDs a clear path to residency in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 16 May 12
Sweden needs to change rules that strip foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH). READ »

Sweden braces for asylum application spike

National: 4 May 12
Swedish migration authorities have ratcheted up their forecast for the number of asylum seekers and labour migrants who will arrive in Sweden during 2012. READ »

'Force' municipalities to receive refugee children: minister

Politics: 22 Apr 12
The Swedish Migration Board is having trouble convincing Sweden’s municipalities to receive sufficient numbers of unaccompanied refugee children. Migration minister Tobias Billström now wants to force municipalities to step up. READ »

Two arrested for asylum home male gang rape

National: 20 Apr 12
Police on Wednesday arrested two men in connection to a suspected gang rape of a 20-year-old man, carried out by three other men, in a home for asylum seekers in northern Sweden. READ »

Swedish school asks kids to translate ‘Negro’

Education: 22 Mar 12
A class of 13-year-olds at a Gothenburg school were given the word “negro” and “negroes” to translate as part of their English language education, which some of the students have found inappropriate. READ »

Sweden Democrats in bid to 'help' immigrants leave

Politics: 5 Mar 12
The Sweden Democrats' youth wing wants to entice jobless immigrants to leave the country by offering them "goodie bags" complete with tips on how to facilitate immigrants' departure from Sweden. READ »

Pastor 'tortured' in Congo after Sweden deportation

National: 29 Feb 12
A Congolese pastor who was deported from Sweden last week after losing a long-running fight for asylum was reportedly beaten upon returning to his home country, just as his Swedish supporters had feared. READ »

Sweden braces for family immigration boom

Society: 23 Feb 12
A recent court ruling may mean a 45 percent rise in applications for permanent residency based on family relations, according to predictions from the Swedish Migration Board, with most applicants expected to come from Somalia. READ »

Fire ravages refugee housing facility

National: 31 Jan 12
A violent fire erupted at a refugee housing facility in central Sweden early Tuesday morning, forcing the evacuation of 80 residents and sending at least three people to hospital. READ »

Sweden stops deportations to Syria

National: 31 Jan 12
Sweden's Migration Board said Monday it was temporarily suspending all deportations to Syria due to the worsening violence in the country as president Bashar al-Assad's deadly crackdown continues. READ »

Man disciplined for comparing baby to Saddam Hussein

National: 28 Jan 12
A worker at the Swedish Migration Board who told a family of Iraqi asylum seekers that their newborn baby looked like Saddam Hussein will not lose his job over the incident, the agency's disciplinary committee has ruled. READ »

'Your baby looks like Saddam Hussein'

Society: 19 Jan 12
An administrator at the Swedish Migration Board is facing disciplinary action after telling a family of Iraqi asylum seekers that their newborn baby looked like Saddam Hussein. READ »

Who can work in Sweden?

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Not everyone can move to work in Sweden, but new labour migration laws have made it much easier to move to Sweden from outside the EU. READ »

How to apply for a Swedish Master's program

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Some 600 master’s degree programs at Swedish universities are taught entirely in English. Here's an easy guide for how to apply. READ »

Do I need a visa?

Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
Whether or not you need a visa or a residence permit depends on where you come from. This is what you need to know. READ »

Ministry official fired over dodgy massage parlours

Society: 10 Jan 12
A high-ranking civil servant in Sweden's defence ministry has been sacked after it was revealed he was involved in running several Thai massage parlours on the side. READ »

Somalis 'shut out' of Sweden's health system

Science & Technology: 28 Dec 11
Many Somalis in Sweden feel dismissed when visiting a doctor in Sweden, according to a new study, which shows that many end up looking abroad for medical treatment as a result. READ »

Sweden needs 'tougher controls' on labour migration: OECD

Business & Money: 19 Dec 11
Sweden needs to implement tighter controls of new rules governing foreign labour migration, according to the OECD, which nevertheless concluded that the 2008 reforms have worked fairly well. READ »

Police swamped by 'impossible' deportations

National: 12 Dec 11
Sweden's law enforcement agencies are struggling to deal with a record-high 18,000 pending deportation orders, many of which are considered "impossible". READ »

Black market in Swedish work permits 'booming'

Business & Money: 9 Dec 11
Non-Europeans hoping to come to Sweden to work often pay ten thousands of kronor to come to the country, in what is believed to be a widespread illegal trade in work permits. READ »

Sweden to let would-be residents apply online

National: 8 Dec 11
The Swedish Migration Board is promising to speed up applications for residence permits by offering a new web-based application service. READ »

Migrant workers on the rise in Sweden

Politics: 23 Nov 11
The number of people coming to Sweden to work is rising at the same time as the number of refugees coming to the country is falling, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden. READ »

'Iran may be spying on exiles in Sweden': agency

National: 7 Nov 11
New guidelines issued by the Swedish Migration Board reveal that Iran has both the ability and the inclination to keep tabs on political antagonists in Sweden. READ »

OECD: Sweden has poor eye on working conditions

Business & Money: 6 Nov 11
Sweden has poor control over people coming from outside the EU to work, specifically related to the pay and conditions they've been promised, according to findings by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). READ »

Time runs out for 90-year-old deportee

National: 18 Oct 11
90-year-old Ganna Chyzhevska, suffering from dementia and heart disease, is scheduled to be deported to Ukraine on Tuesday afternoon, after all efforts by her family to keep her with them in Sweden have failed. READ »

What does it mean to be a dual citizen?

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Oct 11
After Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu ruffled feathers last week by suggesting ‘temporary’ citizenship as a way to combat crime, contributor Ruben Brunsveld reflects on the meaning of passports and citizenship. READ »

Two weeks reprieve for 90-year-old deportee

National: 3 Oct 11
90-year-old Ganna Chyzhevska, suffering from dementia and heart disease, but scheduled to be deported to Ukraine on Monday, has been given a short reprieve, allowing her family and supporters to rally behind her. READ »

Migration Board offers fast track jobs migration

National: 30 Sep 11
The Swedish Migration Board is set to launch a new programme to cut processing times for immigrants seeking to come to the country on working visas, by allowing major companies to handle the process. READ »

Danish love refugees flee to Malmö

Politics: 14 Sep 11
As Denmark prepares to go to the polls on September 15th, Katherine Dunn explores the contentious election issue of immigration policy and exposes the effects it has had on Sweden's third city Malmö. READ »

Foreign family told they 'eat too much dough'

National: 24 Aug 11
A representative from the social services in western Sweden has been accused of criticising the eating habits and weight of a family of asylum seekers. READ »

Fewer foreign berry pickers in Sweden

National: 13 Aug 11
This year has seen a significant drop in the number of berry pickers coming to Sweden from countries outside the EU, since requirements and regulations have been sharpened for companies employing foreign berry pickers. READ »

Why coming to work in Sweden has never been easier

Society: 13 Jul 11
Whether you’re an architect, a cook or a nurse, there could well be a job in Sweden for you. If you want to come and work in Sweden, here is a guide to what to do. READ »

Juholt promises 21 concrete points of reform

Politics: 8 Jul 11
Social Democratic leader Håkan Juholt is promising that his speech in Almedalen on Friday evening will unveil no fewer than 21 concrete points on labour and employment reforms. READ »

Sweden offers 'haven' for persecuted writers

National: 30 Jun 11
The Swedish Migration Board has announced new rules making it easier for exiled authors, persecuted in their home countries, to reside in so-called "safe havens" in Sweden. READ »

Foreign student numbers plummet in Sweden

Education: 28 Jun 11
Fewer than 1,300 non-European students have paid the new tuition fees required to study at Swedish universities, according to higher education officials. In 2009-10, there were more than 16,000 non-European university students in Sweden. READ »

Students suspected of residency permit fraud

Education: 25 Jun 11
Thousands of foreign students are abusing their residency rights by never attending college in what could be a widespread visa fraud, according to a new report from the Swedish Migration Board. READ »

Wrong to sack principal over 'lewd' Facebook pics: Swedish court

Education: 23 Jun 11
A Swedish court has ruled that a school was unjustified in sacking its principal after he joined a number of sexually themed groups on Facebook and published half-naked pictures of himself on the popular social networking site. READ »

'Bullying' claim prompts probe of Chinese IT firm

National: 9 Jun 11
The Swedish Migration Board plans to investigate allegations that Chinese telecom firm Huawei is mistreating guest workers from China working for the company in Sweden. READ »

Swedish citizenship applications on the rise

Society: 7 Jun 11
The number of people applying to be Swedish citizens is expected to rise in 2011, according to forecasts from the Swedish Migration Board. READ »

Cartoon bear victim of ‘refugee-porn’: Vilks

Society: 20 May 11
The media storm surrounding the special edition of children’s cartoon Bamse, aimed at helping asylum seeking children, could have ‘xenophobic undercurrents’, according to controversial artist Lars Vilks. READ »

Cartoon bear's 'asylum stories' spark debate

Society: 18 May 11
One of Sweden's most beloved children's cartoon characters, Bamse the bear, has found himself at the centre of a raging debate about Sweden's asylum policies. READ »

Tax agency: DNA-test no proof of paternity

National: 10 May 11
The Swedish Tax Agency is refusing to recognise a DNA-test as proof that a man born in Sierra Leone is the father of a son, despite the National Board of Forensic Medicine assertion that it is 99.999 percent certain of his paternity. READ »

'Unstable' firms bringing workers to Sweden

Business & Money: 15 Apr 11
Many of the companies approved to bring foreign workers to Sweden every year have little or no turnover or go bankrupt shortly after the labour migrants arrive, according to a new report. READ »

Tougher rules to protect Sweden's berry pickers

Business & Money: 8 Apr 11
The Swedish Migration Board has issued stricter guidelines for hiring berry pickers ahead of the 2011 season. READ »

Rise in abuse of foreign wives in Sweden: report

Society: 17 Feb 11
Reports of assault and sexual abuse from women who come to Sweden to be with Swedish men have become increasingly common, according to a new report. READ »

Protesters arrested after Iraq expulsion demo

National: 16 Feb 11
Swedish police arrested 16 protesters on Tuesday night outside the Swedish Migration Board's asylum seeker detention centre in Kållered outside Gothenburg demonstrating against the expulsion of a group of Iraqis. READ »

Swedes still keen on finding love abroad

Lifestyle: 14 Feb 11
While Swedes no longer take to Viking longboats in search of foreign booty, research shows they remain adept at bringing back trophies of love from their adventures abroad, The Local's Ben Kersley discovers. READ »

Sweden deports Iraqi refugees amid protests

National: 20 Jan 11
Despite widespread protests, Sweden deported 20 people back to Iraq on Wednesday after they had been denied asylum, police said. READ »

Guest workers forced into 'slave-like' employ

Society: 22 Dec 10
Foreign guest workers are being tricked into coming to Sweden and forced to work under slave-like conditions, according to a new report which identifies the trade as a lucrative part of international organised crime. READ »

Sweden enlists cartoon bear to help asylum seeking children

Society: 29 Nov 10
The popular Swedish children’s character, Bamse -- the world’s strongest bear, has found a new role: helping kids who seek asylum in Sweden. READ »

Afghan refugees used to train Swedish soldiers

National: 25 Nov 10
Sweden’s defence minister is demanding answers after it was revealed that the military used Afghan refugees, at least one of whom was scheduled to be deported, to help train Swedish soldiers. READ »

Sweden gets all-clear for Iraq deportations

National: 25 Nov 10
Sweden can resume deportations to Iraq, the migration authority has announced, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights to lift its suspension. READ »

Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital

National: 24 Nov 10
A hospital in central Sweden refused to perform an operation on a 16-year-old unaccompanied refugee boy because the doctor didn't think the hospital would be reimbursed for the procedure. READ »

Sweden stops plane of deported Iraqis

National: 17 Nov 10
A flight carrying deported Iraqi asylum seekers from Sweden back to Iraq has been cancelled following a request from the European Court of Human Rights that Sweden delay around 150 forced deportations. READ »

Lack of interpreters threat to asylum process

Society: 12 Nov 10
Sweden’s lack of qualified interpreters with specialized skills in legal terminology poses a threat for those seeking asylum in the country, warns the head of the Swedish Bar Association. READ »

Minister's labour law comments irk unions

Business & Money: 9 Nov 10
Sweden's unions are furious at how the country's migration minister has reacted to revelations about abuses related to a new law on labour migration. READ »

WikiLeaks founder: I'm going to sue Sweden

Science & Technology: 3 Nov 10
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has said that he intends to sue the Swedish state over the handling of rape allegations against him by the Swedish Prosecution Authority. READ »

Sweden ends asylum seeker returns to Greece

National: 3 Nov 10
Sweden announced on Tuesday that it has stopped sending asylum seekers back to Greece, due to a "deteriorating" situation for the country's immigration system. READ »

Berry pickers had invalid contract: Swedish union

National: 25 Oct 10
The employment agreement covering 290 Vietnamese berry pickers who worked in Swedish fields last summer, dozens of whom still remain in Europe, should never have been approved, according to a Swedish union READ »

Sweden Democrat leaves party after winning seat

Politics: 23 Sep 10
A Sweden Democrat candidate who won a seat on the local council in Gällivare in northern Sweden has resigned from the party after reading its manifesto. READ »

Suffering along the path to suffrage in Sweden

Lifestyle: 17 Sep 10
There’s nothing like an election to highlight an immigrant’s outsider status. But as Paul O’Mahony explains, the path to citizenship in Sweden isn’t without a bump or two, especially when the journey begins in June. READ »

Julian Assange applies for Swedish residency

Society: 31 Aug 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has applied for a permit to work and reside in the country, a spokesperson for the Swedish Migration Board confirmed on Tuesday. READ »

Father dumps baby in Migration Board protest

National: 16 Jul 10
A father left his four-month-old baby on the reception counter at the Swedish Migration Board, leaving the building in protest over a misunderstanding regarding the child's residence permit. READ »

Red Cross boss quits after scandal

National: 3 May 10
The head of the Swedish Red Cross has left his post, but insisted that his decision was not related to an alleged multi-million fraud committed against the organization. READ »

Assaulted Chinese woman risks deportation

National: 27 Apr 10
The Swedish Migration Board has ruled to deport a Chinese woman who lost her residency permit when her Swedish husband filed for divorce in revenge for her reporting his repeated assaults. READ »

Migration board launches online citizenship form

National: 14 Apr 10
The Swedish Migration Board has announced the launch of an online citizenship application service. READ »

Man arrested over Kosovo war crimes

National: 7 Apr 10
A man has been arrested in western Sweden on suspicion of aggravated war crimes, with an alternative charge of murder, in connection with the Kosovo war in 1999. READ »

Sweden plans Afghanistan orphanages

Politics: 25 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced plans to build homes in Afghanistan where unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Sweden can be sent. READ »

Ombudsman backs police on pepper spray at refugee wedding

National: 12 Mar 10
The Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman has ruled that there is no case to answer for the police officers who interrupted a wedding to arrest a 24-year-old groom at Malmö city hall, using pepper spray on him in the process. READ »

Roma duped into seeking Swedish asylum

Society: 5 Mar 10
An estimated 1,000 Roma people, primarily from Serbia, have been lured this year alone into travelling to Sweden in the vain hope of securing residence permits, the Swedish Migration Board has said. READ »

Refugees staying put in problem spots

National: 17 Feb 10
A Swedish government project focused on enticing refugees to leave problem-ridden areas in Sweden's big cities has failed to achieve its goals. After two years, just 286 people have made use of the scheme. READ »

Kabul to Kiruna: a new life in the Arctic Circle

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jan 10
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. READ »

Council urges action to hinder wife importers

National: 15 Jan 10
The governor of Värmland, western Sweden, has called for action to track the marital lives of men that habitually wed foreign women after it is revealed the region has the highest number of so-called wife importers in the country. READ »

Vellinge council in refugee children reversal

National: 13 Jan 10
The local council in Vellinge in southern Sweden has agreed to allow the municipality to house refugee children, reversing its long standing position on the issue. READ »

Afghan teens left in the cold by train operator

National: 29 Dec 09
The five Afghan teens found wandering in the cold near Sävsjö in southern Sweden had not been left in the forest by smugglers, it emerged on Monday, but had instead been kicked off a Swedish passenger train. READ »

Sweden risks facing severe labour shortages

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 09
Over the next ten years, the number of native-born Swedes of working age will decline by 100,000. Without more immigrants, we will be unable to sustain our welfare standards, writes Olle Wästberg, head of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Swedish police produce pepper spray at refugee's wedding

National: 20 Dec 09
A wedding on Saturday in Malmö in southern Sweden came to an abrupt halt as police arrested the 24-year-old groom at the city hall, using pepper spray on him in the process. READ »

Vellinge changes course to welcome refugee kids

Politics: 20 Nov 09
Local politicians who previously voiced their disapproval at a move to house asylum seeker children in Vellinge look set to sign an agreement to invite more children to reside in the municipality in the future. READ »

500 refugee children in urgent need of housing

National: 16 Nov 09
As housing shortages for refugee children reach crisis levels, Swedish migration authorities have decided to more than double the number of municipalities assigned to receive young asylum seekers. READ »

Government mulls new law to force care for asylum kids

National: 13 Nov 09
Government parties have called for legislation to force municipalities to care for children seeking asylum amid recent protests over the housing of young refugees in Vellinge in southern Sweden. READ »

Sweden to pay more asylum seekers to leave

National: 6 Nov 09
Sweden has decided to expand a programme which gives unsuccessful asylum seekers money to voluntarily return to their homelands, at the same time as the number of refugee applications continues to drop. READ »

Man forced to re-apply for asylum after boarding wrong train

National: 28 Oct 09
A mistake which put an Iraqi asylum seeker on the wrong train in Malmö in southern Sweden has forced him to start the asylum process all over again. READ »

Malmö mystery man 'sounds Dutch': linguist

National: 15 Oct 09
A man in southern Sweden who has called on the public to help him rediscover his identity probably has either Dutch or Flemish as his native language, a prominent forensic linguist tells The Local. READ »

'Who am I?' - Mystery foreigner pleads for help

Society: 14 Oct 09
A man who woke up in a Malmö hospital bed four weeks ago without any recollection of who he is or how he got there has turned to the Swedish public for help in determining his identity. READ »

Anger as deportees held in solitary confinement

National: 13 Oct 09
Sweden continues to isolate asylum seekers awaiting deportation in remand centres, despite continued criticism from torture committees at the United Nations and the Council of Europe. READ »

Sweden agrees to accept camp refugees

National: 27 Sep 09
Sweden and a dozen other European countries have agreed to accept Somali and Eritrean refugees from camps in Kenya and Sudan. Three further camps on Iraq's border with Syria will also be emptied. READ »

'Saddam's body guard' to be deported from Sweden

National: 21 Sep 09
An Iraqi man who claimed to have worked as a bodyguard for Saddam Hussein is to be deported from Sweden despite concerns that he may be killed upon returning to Iraq. READ »

UN to monitor Swedish migration board

National: 20 Aug 09
The United Nations refugee organ, the UNHCR, which is a regular critic of Swedish migration policies, plans to spend nine months closely monitoring the work of the Migration Board. READ »

Sweden refuses asylum to gay Iraqis

National: 18 Aug 09
A Swedish gay rights organisation has called on the government not to deport any homosexual Iraqi asylum seekers in the light of a shocking new report categorising an extermination campaign against gay men in the Middle Eastern country. READ »

Fewer seeking asylum in Sweden

National: 16 Aug 09
The number of foreigners seeking asylum in Sweden has fallen by 17 percent in the first half of 2009, compared to the same period last year. READ »

European court halts childrens' deportation

National: 6 Aug 09
The European Court of Human Rights has temporarily prevented the deportation of four Serbian children from Sweden after their mother was sentenced to eight years in prison. READ »

Afghan teens in Swedish asylum limbo

National: 29 Jul 09
A wave of teenage Afghan refugees has arrived in Malmö and other Swedish cities in recent weeks. Many remain in limbo as most Swedish municipalities refuse to accept them. READ »

'Missing' footballers prompt new entry rules

Society: 21 Jul 09
The disappearance of five Tanzanian youth footballers has prompted the Swedish Migration Board to tighten entry requirements for non-Europeans playing in the Gothia Cup. READ »

Migration Board bans 'racist' lawyer

National: 15 Jul 09
An asylum lawyer from Skåne in southern Sweden has been blacklisted by the country’s migration authorities following revelations about his personal blog on which he referred to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer

National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

Migration Board worker found guilty of bribery

Society: 23 Jun 09
An employee of the Swedish Migration Board has been ordered to pay 40,000 kronor ($5,000) in damages after he was found guilty of bribing an immigrant from Afghanistan in exchange for a residence permit. READ »

Fury over ailing man's botched deportation

National: 4 Jun 09
Swedish migration authorities have come in for scathing criticism following a decision to deport a man so ill with Parkinson’s disease that his home country of Nigeria refused to grant him entry. READ »

Refugee facility hit by arson attack

National: 2 Jun 09
A refugee housing facility in Karlskoga in central Sweden was subject to an arson attack early Tuesday morning, according to police. READ »

Sweden offers asylum to Iraqi who aided US military

National: 23 May 09
An Iraqi man who assisted the United States military during the war in Iraq has been granted asylum in Sweden. READ »

Suspected infiltration at detention centre

National: 23 May 09
The Swedish Security Service and border police suspect that leftwing activists may be behind the large number of escapes from a secure refugee detention centre outside of Gothenburg. READ »


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