Plus their families, and they're not closing the door to new migrants either.
Also, the vast majority of the refugees did not travel to Sweden on their own: they staggered across the border to camps in Turkey/Lebanon/wherever, applied for asylum somewhere/anywhere, and were accepted and flown over by Sweden.
The top comment (as of 12:49GMT, 2013-09-16) puts a different spin on it.
"Sweden is the world's largest weapon producer per capita, despite not being in a war for several hundreds of years. Our weapons cause destruction and desperation, the immigrants get 'welcomed' into something similar so slave labour, and suddenly the Swedish elite gets weapon incomes + free labor. There is simply nothing to love about it."
As a Yugoslav immigrant kid, that's a very cynical view.
Yes it's hard for migrants to make it in a new country, that's part of being a migrant imo. You come to a new country, without any relatives or existing contacts that can help you get a job. The first generation always has to struggle to make a good life for the 2nd.
And I don't like Swedens weapons business any more than the next anarchist, but fact remains that Sweden has done very, very much for the refugees of the world.
I consider myself a Swede now, We have so much spare surface area for new people to settle that it's silly to keep close borders. I think the government is doing very noble things accepting war refugees. At least on that aspect, I can agree with the leaders of the nation.
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I'd also think that this helps only the upper layer of syrian society, those who could afford to travel to sweden.
Also, the vast majority of the refugees did not travel to Sweden on their own: they staggered across the border to camps in Turkey/Lebanon/wherever, applied for asylum somewhere/anywhere, and were accepted and flown over by Sweden.
"Sweden is the world's largest weapon producer per capita, despite not being in a war for several hundreds of years. Our weapons cause destruction and desperation, the immigrants get 'welcomed' into something similar so slave labour, and suddenly the Swedish elite gets weapon incomes + free labor. There is simply nothing to love about it."
Yes it's hard for migrants to make it in a new country, that's part of being a migrant imo. You come to a new country, without any relatives or existing contacts that can help you get a job. The first generation always has to struggle to make a good life for the 2nd.
And I don't like Swedens weapons business any more than the next anarchist, but fact remains that Sweden has done very, very much for the refugees of the world.
I consider myself a Swede now, We have so much spare surface area for new people to settle that it's silly to keep close borders. I think the government is doing very noble things accepting war refugees. At least on that aspect, I can agree with the leaders of the nation.