This week’s podcast features an interview with Afghan-Swedish journalist and engineer Faisal Khan on changing attitudes to immigration over the past two decades in Sweden.
Instead of a news roundup Sweden in Focus this week consists of a conversation with a journalist who has contributed several articles to The Local recently charting the immigrant experience.
Faisal Khan ended up in Sweden after life in Afghanistan became “unbearable” for him and his family.
Sweden was a country he knew little about but soon came to appreciate. And despite a rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric, he’s hopeful Sweden can “correct course” and focus on finding solutions to real societal problems without seeking scapegoats.
“I love everything about Sweden. I love its bad weather. I love its bad jokes, even though I don’t understand most of them. My body doesn’t accept the cold weather but I’m still optimistic,” he says.
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