Inside Sweden: How well does the Swedish Migration Agency understand the law?
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Immigration was at the heart of the political debate in the past four years, but the voices of immigrants themselves were comparatively rarely centred in the media coverage, an analysis by The Fix Advisory & Research in partnership with The Local shows..
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