Drawing on his own experiences, Faisal Khan examines how Swedish society sorts immigrants into four familiar stereotypes — the good, the bad, the ugly and the evil immigrant. The solution, he argues, is for Swedes and immigrants to meet more often.
The Sweden Democrats' migration map does not depict reality, but instead a "fantasy of fear" which collapses in on its own absurdity as soon as it is given the least scrutiny, writes Faisal Khan, an engineer, author, and former intern at The Local.
The re-emigration grant dispute is the kind of conflict Jimmie Åkesson thrives on, writes Faisal Khan, a former Local intern from Afghanistan, who recalls Åkesson once asking a Kurdish MP if he could become Kurdish and explains how he would have answered.
