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Sweden’s foreign-born voters trail Swedish-born voters by 22 points

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SignatureThey said “too drunk”. Complaints describe ethnic discrimination at Sweden’s club doorsRead - 2 min read - 17:04A nightclub crowd dancing beneath purple stage lights.SignatureSome temporary-permit holders can seek citizenship if officials expect them to stayRead - 2 min read - 16:36A Swedish passport photographed from above.SignatureSweden's associations are strong enough to survive and exposed enough to fear.Read - 2 min read - 08:45Three Swedish Red Cross volunteers stand together with first-aid bags at Karlstad Airport.

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Even Swedish work experience matters less when you were born abroad

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SignaturePassing SFI is linked to work, but hiring barriers remainRead - 2 min read - 11:43Four adults use desktop computers during an SFI workshop in Värnamo, Sweden.SignatureWhat Swedish schools can legally ask parents to payRead - 2 min read - 10:36An empty classroom with rows of desks and chairs in Tollarp, Sweden.SignatureAge discrimination can start at 40 in Sweden’s job marketRead - 2 min read - 09:47Two adult women stand among attendees at a Danish-Swedish job fair in Copenhagen.

Life Here

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How to handle a Swedish decision you cannot understand

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SignatureThe one step to take when the Migration Agency keeps you waitingRead - 2 min read - 13:43A white Migrationsverket flag flying outside against green trees.SignatureSweden's education-linked life-expectancy gap has reached 6.7 yearsRead - 2 min read - 12:41Two adults work together at a weaving loom during an adult-education activity in Norrtälje.NowKebnekaise hikers face more rockfalls as permafrost thawsRead - 1 min read - 07:26A hiker scrambles across loose rocks on the exposed Västra leden route at Kebnekaise.

Sweden Explained

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Sweden’s inflation fell to 0.2% as energy prices dropped

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SignatureWhen a fully automated decision changes your future, GDPR gives you a right to understand and challenge itRead - 2 min read - 17:47A person uses a card reader beside a laptop for an online financial transaction.Now48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heatRead - 1 min read - 07:26Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.SignatureWhen Sweden governs in projects, people live with the gaps.Read - 2 min read - 17:47Swedish Auditor General Christina Gellerbrant Hagberg stands in an office interior.

Power & Consequence

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Sweden wants fewer asylum seekers. Its welfare system still needs workers from abroad

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SignatureSocial Democrats reject MP’s call for higher immigrationRead - 2 min read - 15:38Social Democratic election campaign signs on a street in Malmö.SignatureSweden wants housing boards to decide who is too risky to live there. DO warns that could discriminateRead - 2 min read - 16:41Apartment blocks in Södermalm, Stockholm. The bill concerns housing-cooperative homes across Sweden.SignatureSweden has put 660,000 people inside a new map of exclusion.Read - 2 min read - 12:29An aerial view across apartment blocks, houses, roads, woodland and water north of central Stockholm.

Opinion

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Syrian refugees with luggage gathered outside Stockholm Central station after arriving in Sweden in September 2015.
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Sweden cannot demand integration while making belonging conditional

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DailySweden viewCeuta exposed the right's politics of crueltyRead - 4 min read - 10:12The Ceuta-Morocco border fence winds through green hills on the Ceuta side.DailySweden viewDear Sweden: You buy the drugs. You employ the drug dealers.Read - 4 min read - 19:36Jonas Falk in handcuffs and a black DAS vest while being escorted by Colombian security officers in Bogotá in December 2010.DailySweden viewBorn in Sweden. Why does the crime debate still call them immigrants?Read - 4 min read - 15:44Swedish police officers stand between barriers and a crowd at a Stockholm rally in August 2014.