Sweden's backlash: Why the tide is turning for refugees? | Talk to Al Jazeera

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, but rather it is happening in Sweden, the nation that received more migrants last year than any other country in proportion to the existing population today in a conversation with Al Jazeera the reaction against immigration in Sweden why the

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is changing it is a normal afternoon in Stockholm last winter in the city center young immigrants congregate some of them recently arrived and alone without parents or anyone else last year was a record year: one hundred and sixty-three thousand people applied for asylum here in Sweden, a country of 9.8 million inhabitants, 51 thousand came from Syria, 41 thousand from Afghanistan and 20 thousand from Iraq.

Thousands came from Eritrea and Somalia as well. such as Iran and from Albania and Kosovo four thousand combined emigration here has changed in recent decades in 1970 most immigrants came from other European nations Finland Yugoslavia Denmark and Greece in the 1980s many also came from Iran Chile Lebanon and Turkey and In the last 10 years the numbers have taken off and today around 1.6 million people who live here were born in another country which is 16 percent of the population. A complication that is constantly discussed here is how to integrate all the new immigrants. According to official statistics, there were three hundred and eighty thousand unemployed in February, almost half of them, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand were born abroad and of them, one hundred and forty-five thousand from non-European countries.

Another problem is the emergence of extremism. Recent information on members of the State. Islamic living in Sweden and going to Syria to fight has received a lot of attention according to the Swedish security police. Around 300 people, many of them from Gothenburg, went to Syria in December. Two of them were sentenced to life in prison after traveling to Syria, murdering two people and then re

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. In Gothenburg there is violent crime in recent months there have been murders and assaults in asylum centers and neighborhoods with a large number of immigrants the only party that has been advocating a more restrictive immigration policy the Sweden Democrats is now the third largest party in Opinion polls here despite the efforts of established political parties to isolate it to better understand what is happening in Sweden, we travel to the community of Australia, an area that has received many new immigrants and this is the local mayor Patrick Oberg, who heads the City Council.

He is a member of the moderate party traditionally seen as a pro-business party to toast the ruling Social Democrats. First I want to ask you how difficult it is for the people of this city to have absorbed so many

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Eagleman's minister is responsible for police and border controls. He wanted to ask him and correct me if I'm wrong. I think a code was created when it comes to any type of problem or crime committed against refugees or committed by refugees. There are those who have said that this is a way for the Swedish government to avoid being transparent on this issue. What do you say about that type of criticism about this code that has been created and that covers all these issues related to refugees and the police? I would say it is nonsense to be frank with you and when this police task has been done everything will be completely transparent but if you are in the process of solving a crime and there will always be things that are our secret because if it is not sacred, you will not be able to solve crime and code 291 is a special flag that we have that in the police we have to monitor all activities related to refugees and crime, crimes that are committed against refugees and crimes that are committed by refugees. and we have no reason not to be transparent about it, there are those who say that Sweden has been so welcoming and so generous but that it has reached a breaking point that is tearing the social fabric and the welfare state and some say that there are benefits That sweet should get but it is not like that because the refugees are having priority.

What do you say to those critics? It is also clear that it is a great challenge to receive 163 thousand people in a year, most of them in four months in a country with only 9 million inhabitants. Well, we are also one of the richest countries in the world, the economy is booming, unemployment is going down, G and B are going up, so of course at this stage we could have resources for great well-being . system, but also to help our children in need who are fleeing from Assad or Isis, when we spoke to the mayor of Australia, he said that, in fact, although they don't think they can take in more refugees, it has had its benefits: taxes have gone down; people can earn more; that has helped the economy;

There is a more beneficial aspect for refugees coming to Sweden than a detrimental aspect. I mean, I think it kind of depends on who is looking, because you can find that this There are great things for the economy that we have invested in in the future of Sweden, but there have also been quite a few difficulties in the social sector in the school sector , where we have to invest more money and more resources to be able to have something even better. school, so I think in the short term there has been a challenge for the economy and then there are many other things in the long term, if we are able to teach Swedish to these people to get them out into the job market, then they can also benefit from this , this could really be an investment in the future, so you have been forthright in telling the government that we need to stop the influx, we need to slow it down, what is the government's response to you?

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You can say Marin Hearst's zombie Hornady Fenton, so the opposite, so Bill courted to handle so monumental because the system claws between or the not abundant homilies about the immigration crisis have come on the heels of many other changes that have altered the relationship between the government and the people here, for example, while thecentral government was firmly in control of When the welfare state was built, new actors, including private companies, are now involved in managing the system. There is a sense here that the Swedish model is rapidly transforming. Can you tell me in your estimate where Sweden is now when it comes to refugees compared to where it was in the 90s when it came to hosting refugees.

I think we have a tradition of welcoming refugees. I think the difference is that Sweden is a different country today than it was in the 90s, where we didn't have these kinds of problems with refugees from the Balkans when Yugoslavia collapsed and there are many reasons and one main problem is that we try to see that We are the same welfare state we used to be, but during the 90s and early 21st century many things have changed. In Sweden we have new far-right parties, the Swedish Democrats, who defend this issue again and again, but we have also changed, so that in many ways the new public management has conquered Sweden as it has done in few countries and new parties public.

Management is a movement or a new pattern of governance, which means we take ideas from the private sector, so competition and privatization are quite new normal and we didn't have that situation in the 90s, so Sweden has changed, even if we wanted to say that we are the same country, do you think there are two crises right now than the refugee crisis? that's happening, but there's also a more existential crisis that Sweden is going through right now. What do you mean by X? I mean looking inward trying to figure out what the country is, what it represents, yes, people try to start wondering.

I think it is not the In the same Sweden that we lived in, I have heard people in Sweden say that they believe that this crisis is going to mean that Swedes will lose benefits in cities or municipalities. Wellness services. Medical services. Do you see any evidence of that? It is not evidence, but the Of course, there is fear for many people, we have problems with the schooling system for students, we have problems caring for the elderly and the population is aging rapidly, so that could be a fear that we have , we haven't seen any discussions that we've seen. the discussion, but we haven't seen any action taken by the government, that's all, but I mean there are dangers, what if we decide we have a housing crisis?

What if we decide to build special houses, special communities for refugees and here many of my 60-year-old friends sit with a 30-year-old at home because there are no places to go, especially in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malware, so I think the government should be very careful in resolving this situation because it could evoke some very bad feelings in large masses of people. For some, the crisis affecting Sweden is more serious than anything they have ever experienced in their lives. Ivar Arpi, a columnist, says he has seen friendships and relationships break down; as a result, we need a pause in our way of hosting refugees.

I mean, basically, if you look at the European Union, we've had the sweetness of this view of the European Union that we can do this together and the rest of the European Union has had the view that I think Sweden can do it on its own. same. and we can't, so we need to pause and I want to say that the right to seek asylum should not be threatened if other countries in the European Union accepted more, but as for Sweden, when you look at how many problems we have At the moment we cannot accept more and it is not humane for asylum seekers and it is not good for society, but there are those who say that this view fundamentally contradicts what Sweden is and how welcoming it is. has been for refugees throughout your history, so what is your response to that?

I would say that is true to some extent, but I think they have misunderstood what Sweden is because, like all countries, all nation-states must look at their own citizens first and most importantly and I think when you look, they are all the measures of racism in different countries, we are one of the least racist countries and we have excellent policies when it comes to providing welfare to immigrants and we do not make a difference between immigrants. And the residents or citizens still, when it comes to all that, I think we've been great, but we also have to understand that it's not an eternal order that everything will work out fine in Sweden so that when we reach the limit. we reached the limit, this is our limit, so maybe Sweden forgot a little about the basic lessons that other countries are more aware of.

We were in Australia a few days ago and we talked to the mayor there and he was basically telling us look, I've welcomed refugees, but there has to be a limit on the number that can be there, but at the same time he also said that There have been many benefits, he said that taxes are lower there, that the economy and that area is booming. has been beneficial, so do you also believe that having this number of refugees here is beneficial for Sweden? Are there benefits? This is a very difficult question because if we look historically, especially during the 50s, 60s and 70s, it was very beneficial for Sweden to have Greeks, Turks, Juba Slavs and Iranians come to Sweden and work here.

What we have now since the 1980s is that it is basically a cost of speaking to have refugees, so immigration to Sweden is a cost for the citizens we have had. It is much more difficult to integrate people into the system and the migration to Sweden at the moment is not only from Sirius, but also from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Somalia, so one of the people from the least educated and least abetik countries comes to one of the highest. In educated countries with very high thresholds for access to the labor market it is very difficult to get a house or an apartment, which is why we have had many problems over the last 30 years to integrate newcomers and it has been a yes.

If you look at all the science, none of this from the government and also from independent scientists, there is basically a consensus, it is a cost and then you can say that it is more, it is a moral obligation, but that and you. They can benefit in other ways, like more different cultures, different perspectives and things like that, but economically it's a cost. Last year, the number of asylum seekers in Sweden increased by approximately one hundred percent compared to the year before the migration agency's budget, i.e. an increase of 45 percent. From $2.2 billion to $3.3 billion of the 160,2877 asylum seekers, forty-three percent or seventy thousand three hundred and eighty-four were children under the age of 18 in January, Home Secretary Eagleman said who expected eighty thousand asylum seekers to be deported this past year.

In the fall, sometimes thousands of asylum seekers arrived each week. Border controls are now in force and in the last week of March the migration agency reported that the weekly number of asylum seekers had dropped to just 321.