The research led to new discoveries around the development of Old Norse in Scandinavia.Lyssna: New clues to the origins of the Vikings and their language uncoveredInternational researchers have examined ancient DNA to le…
Märsta detention centre, north of Stockholm.Lyssna: Increasingly long stays at Migration Agency's largest detention centreDetention times for rejected asylum seekers and other individuals facing deportation who are being…
När Baba faller i poolen är klockan 23.47 är ett porträtt av arbete, klass och migration. Pjäsen växer mot slutet när det absurda övergår i en skarp bild av ett hårdnande Finland..
This week: Why are the Social Democrats acting like bit players? Why have a mother-to-be and an active father been told to leave Sweden? Are immigration laws scaring off foreign workers?
A committed father was left 'speechless' by a Swedish Migration Court decision saying moving to 'visa-free visits' from the UK would not unduly affect his relationship with his one-year-old son. He is fighting the deport…
The government says it's up to the Migration Agency to assess which other Swedish tests meet the language requirement for citizenship.Lyssna: Government and Migration Agency point fingers over citizenship language test r…
En smörgås med stekt ägg räckte för att avslöja klasskillnaderna på Vilhelm Mobergs tid. Vad säger en carbonara för 155 kronor om Sverige i dag? undrar Jens Liljestrand.
En smörgås med stekt ägg räckte för att avslöja klasskillnaderna på Vilhelm Mobergs tid. Vad säger en carbonara för 155 kronor om Sverige i dag? undrar Jens Liljestrand.
Återvändande, brottsutvisningar och stöd till Ukraina stod i fokus när de nordiska ministrarna med ansvar för migrationsfrågor möttes i Stockholm den 22–23 oktober..
Sweden's Migration Agency last week quashed a police decision to deport 19 Filipino electrical engineers posted to Sweden, arguing that they had been sent to work in Sweden legally under the EU Posted Workers directive.…
This week: Halloween in Sweden, Swedish media coverage of the Tidö government’s migration crackdown, our favourite Swedish children’s books, efforts to form Sweden’s next government, and a language quiz..
Niels Paarup-Petersen (Centre), Ida Karkiainen (Social Dems), Annika Hirvonen (Greens) and Jennifer Merelaid Hankins (Left) talking with journalists after Thursday's meeting in parliament. Lyssna: Red-green parties reach…
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…
Selma Gúsic from the Swedish Institute for Human Rights and (left) childrens artwork.Lyssna: Overcrowding and privacy shortcomings reported at Swedish Migration Agency’s asThe Migration Agency says it is working to impro…
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Brenda and Marcus Ramström, a couple in western Sweden who spoke to The Local just days before she was forced to return to her native Brazil following a Migrat…
Våldsvågen i Frankrike har gett nytt bränsle till debatten om EU:s migrationspolitik. Ungerns premiärminister Péter Magyar skyller de franska kravallerna på migration och får medhåll av sin polske kollega Donald Tusk. Ut…
The 20 Filipino electrical engineers who were seized by Swedish police on October 9th and held in a Migration Agency detention centre have been released, with the company's lawyer calling the decision to detain them "unl…
En ny rapport visar att Marocko bedriver omfattande övervakning av aktivister från Västsahara. Men övervakningsstaten sträcker sig längre än så. EU måste fråga sig vad man stödjer genom ett omfattande samarbete kring säk…
Vi måste börja skilja på kvalitativ och kvantitativ tillväxt, anser Erik Stenborg. Det förra kan öka levnadsstandarden och rädda planeten från artutrotning medan det senare leder till krig, migration och miljökatastrofer…
Nya regler för anhöriginvandring hotar att slita isär familjer på samma sätt som tonårsutvisningarna har gjort, skriver Hilda Gustafsson, fil dr i internationell migration. Svepet handlar också om läkemedel, studiemedel…
All 8 parties sitting in the Swedish parliament now support the proposal.Lyssna: Teen deportation stop law now backed by all parties in parliamentAll parties in the Swedish parliament now support a law that would stop so…
Ukraina, ryska hybridattacker, energikris, migration och läget i Mellanöstern är delar av agendan när EU:s stats- och regeringschefer samlas för toppmöte.Volodymyr Zelenskyj kommer delta och väntas få uppbackning efter n…
Richard Orange’s interview with the Migration Agency's legal chief about Sweden’s large number of deportations of British people after Brexit is depressing reading. It demonstrates why the agency is no longer capable of…
DN DEBATT. Nya regler för anhöriginvandring hotar att slita isär familjer på samma sätt som tonårsutvisningarna har gjort. Restriktionerna sägs stärka integrationen, men det enda de gör är att hålla föräldrar borta från…
I spåren av migration och kulturell globalisering tycks människor världen över ha drabbats av panik.Per Wirtén förklarar varför nationalism och strävan efter likhet är en dålig snuttefilt..
This week: Magdalena Andersson throws in the towel (for now), Brexit and the Migration Agency, Sweden's cake-baking speaker and how Sweden puts high school kids to work..
When Richard Orange got an interview on Brexit rules with the Migration Agency's legal chief on his fourth attempt, it didn't exactly go as planned. But according to EU lawyers it nonetheless revealed flaws in the agency…
The Swedish Migration Agency has resumed processing of residency permit applications for 18- to 20-year-olds paused in March after the government pledged to bring in a solution to so-called 'teen deportations'..
A landmark decision against a citizenship rejected under the new rules that came into force in June has been appealed to Sweden's highest migration court, raising hopes that the parliament's decision not to include trans…
The previous Swedish government's law tightening rules for family reunification comes into force on October 1st, 2026. The Local spoke to Ann-Kari Olsson, Section Head at the Swedish Migration Agency, to find out who is…