An Eritrean refugee, who was convicted of raping a then-16-year-old girl, was allowed to stay in Sweden after a Swedish court ruled that he would not be deported after serving his sentence due to the ...

Aneta Moura, who emigrated to Sweden from Greece 43 years ago, says the last ethnic Swede has moved off her street in Malmo’s Rosengard neighbourhood and youths with nothing to do hang out on the ...

On October 14, the Swedish government announced it was nominating the CEO of IKEA, Jesper Brodin, as its candidate for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Less than a month later, ...

Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is authored by Emily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From being one of Europe’s most liberal countries in terms of immigration, Sweden has over the past three years taken a sharp turn ...

Sweden will receive up to 190,000 migrants this year, mostly from Syria — more than double previous estimates, the country’s Migration Agency announced Oct. 22. The massive wave of immigration, ...

In 2003 the then 11-year old refugee girl Elita Galev was expelled from Sweden after a long application procedure. During that time she had regressed to a psychological state of total paralysis, ...

Sweden's Minister for Migration Johan Forssell tells Europe Today that the EU "cannot have another refugee crisis", after the ...

Pressure to hold the family together, visa worries and fear of social exclusion can make it harder to leave abusive ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 5 August 2008 More than two dozen ...