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| 143.1 | Iranians, Lebanese, Tamils .... | COP01::STS | Svend Theill Sorensen @DMO | Wed Oct 08 1986 05:23 | 12 |
| This is valid for Denmark as well. We have enormous problems just
to find reasonable quarters for the refuges entering Denmark.
Earlier this year we changed our legislation making it easier to
for refugees to stay in Denmark which resulted in an enormous raise
in the number coming here. I can't remember the numbers, but they
showed that the number of new refugees in Denmark equals the growth
in population this last year.
The legislation is up for discussion in Folketinget (the parliament)
in the session that started yesterday, and we may see some
restrictions. Some have demanded visa before a refugee could enter.
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| 143.2 | | COP01::STS | Svend Theill Sorensen @DMO | Tue Oct 21 1986 04:53 | 12 |
| The Danish legislation has now been changed. Refugees without visa
will be rejected at the borders and the air lines will have to carry
them out again on their own cost and on top of that a fine of kr.
10.000,-.
Only exception from this policy is that refugees who might be killed
if returned will be allowed to enter the ocuntry.
This action has nearly stopped the flood of refugees. This probably
confirms that a lot of the refugees lately were coming from other
european countries because of the much more open immigration
legislation in Denmark.
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| 143.3 | Dual citizenship: yes or no? | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Sep 03 1991 13:24 | 45 |
| From: [email protected] (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Immigrating to and emigrating from Sweden
Date: 2 Sep 91 06:49:43 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Organization: SICS, Kista (Stockholm), Sweden
In article <[email protected]>, hpa@casbah (H.
Peter Anvin, N9ITP) writes:
>Does Sweden permit dual citizenship?
No. The exception is children who get dual citizenship at birth, due to
different legislation in different countries. They are allowed to keep
their dual citizenship until they come of age (18). Then they have to
renounce one.
--
Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: [email protected]
Swedish Institute of Computer Science Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09
Box 1263 Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09
S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
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From: [email protected] (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Immigrating to and emigrating from Sweden
Date: 2 Sep 91 08:59:33 GMT
Organization: Data General AB, Kista, Sweden
In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (H. Peter Anvin, N9ITP) writes:
: Also, a not-so-hypothetical question:
:
: Does Sweden permit dual citizenship?
Yes. I know of several people who are citizens of France and Sweden,
USA and Sweden, Italy and Sweden and so on.
--
Robert Claeson [email protected]
Data General AB (soon also [email protected])
Box 28 Tel: +46 (0)8-92 55 00
S-164 93 KISTA, Sweden
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| 143.4 | Incident at Brummundal, Norway | TLE::SAVAGE | | Thu Sep 12 1991 11:06 | 47 |
| From: [email protected] (Stein J|rgen Rypern)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Norwegian racist riot
Date: 4 Sep 91 11:23:39 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (Stein J|rgen Rypern)
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Hi,
I seem to remember that racism in the nordic countries were discussed
here earlier this year, so I decided to write an update on norway and
racism.
Last saturday afternoon (30. august?) some 2000 people clashed
violently in the small town/village of Brummundal, north of Hamar. The
fight were between supporters of a (In _my_ view racist)
anti-immigration organization and a number of anti-racist groups.
The anti-immigration group 'stopp invandringen' were at the time
holding a political meeting, and the anti-racist people (including a
group of 'professional' demonstrants from oslo, Blitz) were trying to
break up the meeting with slogan-shouting etc.
The meeting dissolved into a fight with bottles and rocks thrown, and
sticks used to beat opponents. Some 30 police officers were trying to
control the riot without much luck. Six persons were arrested, a number
of people hurt, but luckily no dead and no seriously injured.
Two persons on the 'fremskritts-partiet' (Progress party - rightwing
libertarian populist party) local election ballott were thrown out of
the local party for taking part in the riot. The police chief has
expressed his disappointment with locals for not leaving the site after
beeing told to do so by the police.
There have been calls to ban the anti-immigration organization after
this event, but that might not be legal within the UN declaration of
rights (free speech). The anti-immigration organizaton has declared
that they will arrange more public meetings shortly.
/Stein
Disclaimer : The facts above are from memory, 5 days after the event,
and are based on TV and radio news. I have tried to avoid personal
bias, but that is next to impossible in a political item like this. The
choice of words and the selection of news represent my views, _not_ the
university's or anybody else.
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| 143.5 | Nationality of Swedish population in 1980 | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Nov 22 1991 15:49 | 34 |
| From: [email protected] (Dolfo Iraggi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Population in Sweden
Date: 22 Nov 91 11:12:09 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
In 1980 there were 8 358 000 people living in Sweden of which 389
000 had a different nationality. They were from:
Finland 139 000
Yugoslavia 38 000
Norway 26 000
Denmark 25 000
Turkey 21 000
Poland 15 000
Germany (West) 12 000
Greece 9 000
United Kingdom 9 000
Chile 9 000
U.S.A 6 000
Italy 4 000
Taken from Donner/Guller Sweden (1987)
I don't have more recent figures but I remember they were similar,
saying that about 5% of the population has a foreign citizinship. Of
course, a lot of immigrants have already taken a Swedish citizinship,
so a foreign born list would be useful in this case. Yet I find Sweden
very pure compared with my own country (Holland), although I must say
the people are not as blond as everybody always assumes.
dolfo
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| 143.6 | Re: .3: more discussion of dual Swedish citizenship | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Jan 20 1992 15:18 | 98 |
| From: [email protected] (Bertil Jonell)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Visas and citizenship (was Re: Traveling to Norden)
Date: 17 Jan 92 11:41:12 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
In article <[email protected]> [email protected]
writes:
>Talking about visas and related issues:
>so far, Sweden has refused Swedish citizens who become citizens of another
>country to retain their Swedish citizenship. Some people have claimed that
>that has to do with that Swedes living abroad have a tendency to vote
>against the Social Democrats. Does that mean there is any hope for a change
>in that law with the new government in Sweden? Inquiring minds want to
>know.
I think you have two questions mixed up here. The first is the
regulations against dual citizenship and the second the *proposed*
changes in the election law.
How many countries in the world accept dual citizenship? I don't think
that many accept it unless in special cases. I seem to remember that
the official Swedish position is that a person has one homeland which
he is free to change if he likes: One place to vote, one place to pay
taxes and one place to serve in the military. No party has proposed a
change of this to my knowledge.
There has been cases where persons with dual Swedish/<something>
citizenship has been shanghaied into the military of <something>-land
when they have returned as Swedish citizens. This usually occured with
the former communist countries who almost always refused to let their
citizens renounce their citizenship. I think there even were cases
where Swedish citizens, born in Sweden by parents with this kind of
dual citizenship suffered this treatment.
The second case was a politically hotter potato. It was a dual
suggestion by the Social Democrats to 1: Remove the right to vote for
Swedish citizens living permanently abroad for more than some period of
time (1 to 4 years) and 2: Letting non-citizens with permanent
residence permit in Sweden vote (and perhaps run) in the parlamentary
elections after living here for more than some period of time (1 to 4
years).
It should be noted that even today, non-citizens with permanent
residence permit have the right to vote (and run?) in local city
(kommun) elections. The suggestons were defended by the Social
Democrats and the then-communist VPK on the grunds that "those who live
in a country should have have a say in its administration".
It was attacked by (everybody else?) along two lines. The first that it
would give rise to two classes of citizens, those who could vote and
those who couldn't and thuse remove the need for citizenship as a
concept to remain at all. The second that it was a thinly disguised
attempt at gerrymandering since Swedish citizens living abroad are more
likely to vote against the left than the population as a whole and
non-citizens with permanent residence permits are more likely to vote
for the left than the population as a whole.
> /hpa
-bertil-
--
"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or
strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an
exercise for your kill-file."
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From: [email protected] (Bengt G�llmo)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Visas and citizenship (was Re: Traveling to Norden)
Date: 17 Jan 92 15:17:29 GMT
Organization: LM Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:
> so far, Sweden has refused Swedish citizens who become citizens of another
> country to retain their Swedish citizenship. Some people have claimed that
> that has to do with that Swedes living abroad have a tendency to vote
> against the Social Democrats. Does that mean there is any hope for a change
> in that law with the new government in Sweden?
I don't think so. The reason that Sweden does not allow double
citizenship, I think, is that we think citizenship implies certain
loyalties and obligations. Double citizenship could mean conflicts of
interest.
Bengt
--
Bengt Gallmo e-mail: [email protected]
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson phone: +46 8 719 1940
S-126 25 STOCKHOLM fax: +46 8 719 3988
SWEDEN
The bad thing about good things is that they usually come to an end.
The good thing about bad things is that they, also, usually come to an end.
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| 143.7 | 1.5 million Swedes are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Jun 15 1992 16:34 | 30 |
| From: [email protected] (Mats Winberg)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: NORDEN vs USA (immigration)
Date: 15 Jun 92 07:16:51 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Ericsson
[email protected] (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>When I was living in Scandinavia the population was racially
>homogeneous for the most part. Has there been much immigration
>since then? (this was in the early 1960s. I remember when we
Since then much has happened, Sweden was the ethnically most homogenous
nation in Europe until the '50s. Now, of Sweden's 8.7 million people
1.5 million are first or second-generation immigrants. There are
suburbs in Stockholm where ethnically Swedes are a minority. Sweden
receives 20 - 50 thousand refugees each year (I don't have the exact
figure for 1991). There are state-funded 'home-language education' in
over 100 languages I think. Does anyone have the exact figure ?
Sweden is slowly recognizing the fact that she is an immigration
country, this year for the first time, new Swedish citizen were invited
to the Stockholm City Hall for a ceremony where they received their
citizenship.
*************
Mats Winberg
[email protected]
************
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| 143.8 | Why Sweden? | TLE::SAVAGE | | Tue Jun 30 1992 12:43 | 32 |
| From: [email protected] (Mats Winberg)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Yugoslav refugees in Norden
Date: 30 Jun 92 09:51:03 GMT
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Ericsson
Of the 1.7 million people that is fleeing the war in former Yugoslavia
(of the 1.7 million, many stay in former Yugoslavia) some come to the
Nordic countries. Sweden has during the first 6 months of 1992 received
35.000 people from Yugoslavia. 3.000 new people arrive every week.
Norway has received 2.000, Denmark 1.700 and Finland only 500 all in
all. Compared to the number of inhabitants Sweden is the country
(together with Hungary) that receives the most of the refugees from
Yugoslavia. In absolute numbers only Germany (more than 200.000) and
Hungary (60.000) surpasses Sweden. (The figures according to Dagens
Nyheter 30/6)
Two reflections can be made on these figures:
The first is that it is unfair that some countries in Europe should
bear the whole burden of what is a European refugee situation.
The second, more nordic in its nature, is why Sweden of all the Nordic
countries is such an attractive choice for the refugees. The welfare
and living conditions in Sweden are not better than those in Finland,
Norway or Denmark...
Mats Winberg
[email protected]
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| 143.9 | Rogestam to resign | TLE::SAVAGE | | Thu Dec 10 1992 13:32 | 26 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Mats Winberg)
Subject: Sweden's Immigration Authority head (is forced to?) resign
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Ericsson
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 10:02:43 GMT
Christina Rogestam, head of the Immigration Authority in Sweden is
resigning as of Jan. 1th 1993. The Immigration Authority has been
under heavy criticism recently for not controlling costs for the
refugee camps. After the press started to reveal the unsatisfactory
state of affairs the parliament has started an investigation to
see if there has been mismanagement with the taxpayer's money. There
are approximately 80.000 asylum-seekers waiting in hotels, motels and
other camps in Sweden. The reception and lodging of these cost today
approximately 10 billion Swedish crowns ( 1.8 billion dollars). The
inflow of new refugees have fallen sharply recently, from 2-3000 a
week to 3000 a month.`
Mats Winberg
Stockholm,Sweden
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| 143.10 | Must be outside Norway to apply for work visa | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Jun 30 1993 11:50 | 32 |
| From: [email protected] (Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: More questions about Norway
Date: 29 Jun 1993 19:12:00 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Michael J Mateas)
writes:
>My girlfriend is a chemist; how probable is it that she could
>get a scientist work visa after we have been there awhile?
Yes, she can enter first as a tourist with you then interview for jobs
but when she gets an offer and accepts it she would have to leave the
country since Norwegian law requires all applicants to wait outside of
Norway and apply from where they lived last.
I had to "flee" to England, be in exile there for three weeks and send
my working visa application all the way from the Norwegian consulate in
San Francisco, CA. since I could not do it from the Norwegian consulate
in London. It is penalized to be in Norway while applying for a working
visa with the possibility of revoking the working visa procedure.
Her working visa procedure can take anything from 3 weeks to 6 months
so it can be a very unconfortable long wait.
RAUL IZAHI
--
-----------------> Solely responsible for my writings <----------------------
Raul Izahi Lopez Hernandez | Jeg liker Norge! Har du vaert i Norge?
[email protected] | GUADALAJARA - PALO ALTO - BERGEN
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| 143.11 | Access to financial assistance | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon Jul 19 1993 12:28 | 24 |
| Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: [email protected] (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)
Subject: Re: Shooting in San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Sender: [email protected]
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 21:12:54 GMT
Sweden grants some kinds of social security even to illegal immigrants
- namely emergency (usually cash) support if you are really broke. The
law about this makes no reference to citizenship, residence permits,
etc., but simply says that the local authorities ("Kommuner") ust make
such services available to anyone who is presently within their area of
jurisdiction ("vistas inom kommunen").
Of course, it could be quite a practical problem for an illegal
immigrant of getting any support without giving themselves in at the
same time... I do think there have been some mention in the press of
this actually happening.
--
Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: [email protected]
Swedish Institute of Computer Science Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09
Box 1263 Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09
S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
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| 143.12 | Sweden to deport Peruvian asylum seeker | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Aug 13 1993 17:25 | 43 |
| From: [email protected] (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.issues.civil_rights,clari.news.europe,
clari.news.gov.international
Subject: Amnesty: Sweden prepares to deport Peruvian asylum seeker
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 7:44:56 PDT
LONDON (UPI) -- The human rights group Amnesty International said
Friday it was deeply concerned that Sweden planned to deport a Peruvian
asylum seeker who fears she could be summarily executed if she returns
home.
The London-based group fears 20-year-old Monica Castillo Paez could
meet the same fate as her brother, Ernesto Rafael Castillo Paez, who
disappeared in October 1990 and is now presumed dead.
One of her cousins was killed in 1989 and in both cases Amnesty
believes the security forces were responsible.
In March 1991, human rights lawyer Augusto Zuniga, who was
investigating the disappearance of Monica Castillo's brother, received a
letter bomb that blew off one of his arms.
The bomb was in an envelope that was said to bear an official stamp
on it. Shortly afterwards, Zuniga fled the country.
Monica Castilla's parents said they have received threats from
persons thought to be acting with the support of the security forces.
The threats were made in the context of their efforts to get to the
bottom of their son's disappearance.
Monica Castilla fled Peru in December 1990 after police went to her
home several times searching for her. She went to Sweden to join a
relative living there and sought asylum.
In October 1992, the Swedish government rejected Monica Castillo's
application on the grounds her circumstances and documents were not
sufficient to grant her asylum.
A new hearing was held on Thursday to examine if there was any new
information on the case and a Swedish ruling on that last application is
expected shortly.
Amnesty said Castillo was taken into custody after the hearing and
the group said that she was being held in preparation for her
deportation to Peru.
The group said her close family connection with Ernesto Castillo
could put her at grave risk of arrest, torture or extrajudicial
execution at the hands of the security forces.
The group has expressed its repeated opposition to her forcible
return and has made an urgent appeal to Sweden to abide by international
obligations for the protection of refugees.
mjc-ps-ekmq
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| 143.13 | US citizens' long-term stay in Norway | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Feb 25 1994 09:23 | 30 |
| From: [email protected] (Richard Enbody CPS)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Norwegian Universities...
Date: 25 Feb 1994 09:11:44 GMT
Organization: Institute of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
As an citizen of the USA you can visit Norway for three months without
a visa. If you want to stay longer, you need either a work permit or a
residence permit. In order to get the work permit you need a job
first. As has been mentioned already, one of the requirements for a
residence permit is financial solvency for the residence period. When
I read the requirements it looked like if you were already accepted as
a student (or were a visiting student) that residency permits were
easier than for others. One interesting part of the application is
that you need to give an address of where you will be living. That
presents an interesting problem when applying three months ahead of
time from overseas.
I know this because I am a US citizen who is currently in Norway for
five months on a residence permit. By the way, I get 500 hours of free
Norwegian lessons with my permit. They haven't started yet so I am
still playing the ignorant American :-( (I didn't have enough lead
time to learn Norwegian before coming here.)
By the way, this is a wonderful country that is full of wonderful
people. Even the weather has been wonderful recently -- the sun has
been shining in Bergen for about 10 days!!!
-rich
[email protected]
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| 143.14 | Sweden to restrict Bosnian immigration | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Aug 19 1994 14:34 | 74 |
| KARLSLUND REFUGEE CENTER, Sweden (AP) -- When fighting briefly
relented in central Bosnia last year, Anna Mishkevish and her
family thought it was safe to return home.
``When we got there, the Muslim soldiers had taken over our
house,'' the 45-year-old mother of two said. ``One of them put a
gun to my head and knife at my throat ... They said don't come back
or we'll kill you.''
Now, three months after fleeing to Sweden, Mishkevich, who is a
Bosnian Croat, and her husband are on a hunger strike with hundreds
of other refugees -- mostly Croats and Muslims -- against a
government policy to send them home.
``We can't go back,'' said Mishkevish, her voice quickening.
``I have no place to go. No home. Nothing!''
Two years after taking in tens of thousands of refugees from
the Yugoslav war, Sweden has begun looking for ways to tighten its
immigration policy, once among the most open in Europe.
Facing a gargantuan public debt, high unemployment and alarming
hints of racism, the government can barely afford the influx. Today
only 3 percent to 4 percent of asylum-seekers from former
Yugoslavia will get residence permits, compared with nearly half
last year, officials conceded.
``Sweden is not closing its borders,'' said Per Erik Nilsson,
deputy director-general of the immigration board. ``But there is a
different composition of the people coming now.''
He referred to the refugees now coming to Sweden not in fear of
persecution, but to seek a better life, join family, desert the
army or other reasons.
Last May, the government shocked roughly 400 Cuban
asylum-seekers by concluding they face no risk of persecution at
home. It said they must go back, although all were given the right
to appeal and none yet have been deported.
In 1992, violence in the Middle East, former Yugoslavia and
elsewhere brought more than 84,000 asylum-seekers to Sweden's
doorstep, according to government statistics. Less than 13,000 were
allowed to stay.
While Sweden provided a haven this month for embattled
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, it sent back hundreds of her
compatriots. Last year authorities forcibly ejected a small group
of asylum-seekers who had hidden in a monastery.
After granting ``humanitarian'' refuge to 40,000 Bosnians
earlier this year, Sweden decided last week to stick by its
controversial policy of sending back those who arrive on Croatian
passports.
That caught thousands of Bosnians in a Catch-22. Knowing that
Sweden and most countries accepted only Croatian passports, the
Bosnian asylum-seekers had bought or stolen Croatian papers and
used them to leave.
Few have homes in Croatia, and many are certain Croatia will
send them back to Bosnia or in some cases press them into service
in the Croatian army.
``I won't eat until the government changes its policy,'' said
Drazhenko, a 23-year-old Croatian army deserter who declined to
give his last name. ``People would rather die here than be sent
back to Bosnia.''
Drazhenko and Mishkevich were among three dozen refugees on
hunger-strike since Sunday at one of Sweden's modern, pristine
refugee centers 19 miles north of Stockholm.
The Karlslund refugee center is thousands of miles from any
battle zone, cloistered inside thick forests and surrounded by
manicured lawns and playgrounds.
The hunger-strikers sit in a room, watching and encouraging
each other. At a dozen similar centers around Sweden, roughly 500 more
refugees were doing the same, organizers said.
They were drinking water and some juice, and looked tired but
otherwise in good spirits after three days without food. Some
planned a demonstration on Friday.
After a week-long hunger strike in June and prodding from U.N.
officials, Sweden sent a delegation to Croatia to check out the
claims. It returned this month with assurances that no returnees
were being forced back to Bosnia.
``We have chosen to believe it,'' said Marie Andersson, an
immigration official. ``It's difficult, but we have to believe
somebody.''
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| 143.15 | Bosnian Croats granted temporary residence | TLE::SAVAGE | | Mon May 08 1995 14:25 | 24 |
| From: [email protected] (Reuters)
Newsgroups: clari.world.europe.northern,clari.world.europe.balkans,
biz.clarinet.sample,clari.news.immigration
Subject: Sweden grants residence to 5,000 Bosnian Croats
Date: Fri, 5 May 95 9:40:31 PDT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuter) - Sweden bowed to public pressure
Friday and agreed to grant 5,000 Bosnian Croats temporary
residence, revoking an earlier decision to deport them.
``Against the background of the dramatic developments in
Croatia ... it was necessary to reinvestigate the situation,''
Immigration Minister Leif Blomberg said.
Sweden decided in March that Bosnians who have Croatian
citizenship did not need sanctuary in Scandinavia and began
sending them back to Croatia.
A group of Swedes, among them writers and artists,
demonstrated outside parliament this week on behalf of the
asylum-seekers after rockets hit the Croatian capital, Zagreb,
during renewed fighting between Croatian and Serb forces.
The immigrants also won the sympathy of some parishes of the
state-financed Lutheran church, one of which housed around 100
Bosnians for over a month.
Residents near the church, in the southern city of
Karlskrona, donated food and money to feed the asylum-seekers.
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| 143.16 | Sweden's treatment of new immigrants | TLE::SAVAGE | | Wed Feb 21 1996 12:56 | 53 |
| From: Roland Johansson <[email protected]>
To: List for those interested in things Swedish
Subject: Immigrants in Sweden
>How does Sweden handle the influx of immigrants? Does Sweden try to
>assimilate them or set them up under special circumstances to preserve
>their culture?
Both.
The Swedish policy is to try to assimilate them, making them part of
society, while still helping them to preserve their culture.
>I know most immigrants go through some sort of language program, are
>they taught anything about Swedish history as a prequisit to becoming
>citizens?
Part of the compulsory 40 hours of Swedish, also includes information
about how society works, but according to some that I know, that have
been through it, there is no history.
>Do, for example, the Turks have Turkish schools where they are
>taught in the Turkish language and learn Turkish history?
In areas where there are many members of a particular group, classes
are arranged within the regular public school system with monocultural
classes, where this is done. The Finnish immigrants in particular are
trying to get more of this.
>Do companies and governments have hiring goals for minority groups
>in proporportion to the group's existence in society?
No, but in the current situation, with unemployment, measures are being
discussed seriously, since immigrants tend to suffer more than the
average Swede.
It seems that in bad times, employers are more reluctant regarding
non-Swedes, and this is sometimes referred to as racism.
I don't know if it really is, but the fact is that a proportionally
larger percentage among non-Swedes are unemployed, and they also have
more difficulties getting a real job than ethnical Swedes.
The words racism and racist are sometimes being used for things that
really aren't.
/Roland
=====================================================================
Roland Johansson Mail: [email protected]
c/o Falkner Web: http://www.bahnhof.se/~floyd/
Saetra torg 12
S-127 38 Skaerholmen Phone: +46-8-88 56 11
Sweden
Scandinavian Genealogy page: http://www.bahnhof.se/~floyd/scandgen/
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| 143.17 | Statistics for 1995 | TLE::SAVAGE | | Fri Sep 27 1996 14:00 | 62
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