People leaving Sweden will exceed immigrants in 2024 – DW

https://www.dw.com/en/people-leaving-sweden-will-exceed-immigrants-in-2024/a-69954145

by Black_September

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  2. The article doesn’t say specifics about why they are moving though because it only talks about asylum seekers. By any chance other people are just moving to other countries where the pay is better? I have lost a few members of my team that way.

  3. Sweden has a violent crime problem. Maybe that’s why?

  4. The number of immigrants in [Sweden](https://www.dw.com/en/sweden/t-66053585) The number of immigrants in [Sweden](https://www.dw.com/en/sweden/t-66053585) is lower than it has been for a long time.

    In early August, Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said Statistics Sweden, the government’s official statistics agency, had found that 5,700 more people had emigrated than immigrated in the period from January to May 2024. Stenergard said the trend was expected to continue, adding that the number of asylum applications had not been as low since 1997.

    It’s not the first time that Sweden has seen a dramatic drop in asylum applications. In 2016, 28,939 people applied for asylum in the country of  [just over 10.5 million](https://www.dw.com/en/swedens-population-shrinks-for-first-time-in-50-years/a-69893811)— significantly down from the 162,877 applications in 2015.

    # Government tightened migration policies in 2016

    The lower figures can be attributed to the government’s decision to change course. At the end of 2015, the ruling Social Democrats ended Sweden’s previously liberal immigration and integration policies, whereby many asylum-seekers from crisis-ridden countries such as the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Somalia had been accepted, and significantly tightened [migration](https://www.dw.com/en/migration/t-41577210) policies.

    Since October 2022, a [minority government](https://www.dw.com/en/swedens-eu-presidency-is-at-the-mercy-of-euroskeptics/a-64372479) led by [conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson](https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-lawmakers-elect-ulf-kristersson-as-prime-minister/a-63461080) has been in power, supported by the far-right nationalist Sweden Democrats. 

    In a report by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Swedish migration expert Bernd Parusel wrote that Sweden introduced various measures against a backdrop of major “bottlenecks in registering, finding accommodation for, and caring for asylum-seekers entering the country.”

    Parusel explained that the measures first concerned access to Swedish territory in order to apply for asylum. Secondly, they were about granting asylum and the legal consequences. Thirdly, the idea was that people should be encouraged to return voluntarily, and deportations should be carried out consistently.

  5. Hard to believe. Half my friends moved there and I am pretty sure the youngsters will be just as eager to live there, than our generation.

  6. Check out what time it goes dark in Sweden in winter and you will understand why anyone who can goes to live somewhere else further south.

  7. They are finally doing something about the Mass immigration problems.

  8. Off topic but I know a few rich millennial and gen z Swedes in London who have zero interest moving back to Sweden 

    They love the London life/scene and despise Sweden 

  9. It’s interesting.
    We in Ireland have our our migration and housing crisis and I’m seeing a lot of Somali Swedes presenting to our services (I work in homeless services) over the last year.
    They have Swedish citizenship after receiving asylum status so they would be counted as EU migrants. But clearly the attitude to them in Sweden has changed since their arrival there and they no longer find it a welcoming place.

  10. If northern europeans are suffering you can guess the conditions of living in southern Europe…

  11. > According to the Swedish government’s most recent press release, there are now more and more people who originally came from Iraq, Somalia or Syria leaving the country. It remains open how many of these voluntary returnees figure in the latest migration statistics. But Stenergard seems convinced that the current figures are down to the more restrictive policies of the past eight years. “The government’s efforts are bearing fruit,” she said.

  13. This will be Finland soon as well if it’s not already. They are introducing a new law here that will kick immigrants out of the country if they get unemployed and are unable to find a new job in 3 months. Universities are going to charge tuition as well now so students won’t want to come here.

  14. It depends … who is leaving? Is it immigrants changing their mind or citizens?

  16. The government doesn’t even know how many people live in the country. The tax agency estimates that there are around 107k-185k people in the country that live outside the system. It’s embarrassing.

  17. Impossible. We are all told Nordic countries are a paradise.

  18. Aaaaghaaaaghaaaaaaaagha Aaaaaghaaaaaaaghaaaaa (immigrant song)

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