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Swedish govt to tighten immigration
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IANS | 25 Jan, 2023
The Swedish government has announced an "international information
campaign", which it expects to discourage refugees from coming to the
country.
"The main objective is to inform about the
Swedish migration policy so that fewer people will come here," Minister
for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard was quoted by Xinhua news agency
as saying.
"Among other things, this includes distributing an
information package to foreign authorities and other authorities with
contact points abroad. Targeted information must also go to foreign
newsrooms and news agencies," she said.
"If refugees who would be
forced to return receive information about the regulations that apply
here, we reduce the risk of suffering for these people and focus to a
greater extent on those who have genuine reasons to get protection," she
added.
Malmer Stenergard also said that 76 per cent of the
refugees who arrived in the Nordic countries in 2019 ended up in Sweden
and that this number must be substantially decreased.
In that
year, Sweden received just under 22,000 asylum applications, according
to statistics provided by the Swedish Migration Agency. In 2020 and
2021, the corresponding figures were 13,000 and 11,400, according to the
agency.
"Sweden must not have a more generous view on asylum
than mandated by EU (European Union) legislation and other legally
binding treaties," the minister said.
The government has also
instructed the Swedish Migration Agency to prepare for decreasing the
number of quota refugees -- persons who have fled their home countries
and been selected by the United Nations' refugee agency (UNHCR) to be
resettled in a third country -- from 5,000 to 900.
Ahead of the
election in September 2022, the bloc that eventually won campaigned for
tighter immigration rules. They are supported by the far-right Sweden
Democrats, who has campaigned against immigration.
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