The Industrious Refugee: 0.3% Employed In Sweden

Only a fraction of the many asylum seekers who came to Sweden last year have got jobs, new figures show.

Only a microscopic part of the 162,000 refugees who last year sought asylum in Sweden have so far got jobs. In fact only 494 of the thousands of asylum seekers in the labor market, writes SVT. This corresponds to 0.3 per cent of all asylum seekers that came last year.

A valid ID is all that is requires, according to the television channel, for a person who has come to Sweden to be able to work while he is waiting to get his asylum application processed.

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Swedes Being "Asked" To Give Vacation Homes To Immigrants

The municipality must begin to expropriate Swedes houses and condominiums and give them to immigrants, according to the social worker Anders Wilhelmsson in Halmstad.

It's not enough that the Swedes who live in rental units are thrown out of their homes to make way for immigrants, according Wilhelmsson, who is a social worker in the department for educational and social financial assistance.

In a letter to the municipal government, he writes that the municipality should go a step further and use the right to expropriate to seize primarily single-family homes and condominiums owned by Swedes. The homes, the municipality must then give to refugees, he says.

"The whole community should join in solidarity to give received refugees housing and integration." the letter said.

 

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Is that too much to ask, Sven?

 

 

Sweden in Grips of Islam

Ordinarily this item would go on Wild Card Wednesday but this blogster has fallen far off his routine. Transportation problems, a vicious and prolonged cold and all of the hassles one associates with the changing of addresses have kept me isolated from blogsville.

We could see sporadic posting in the foreseeable future.


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