Sunday, February 15, 2015

"Child refugees call tiny Swedish town home"

"For Sorsele, a town that's been depopulating since the 1970s, there is more to immigration than claiming the golden boot. Locals say the town centre is not bustling like it used to. Many see its refugee admissions - which add about 4 percent to its total population every year - as an injection of both labour and spending power."


http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/12/child-refugees-call-tiny-swedish-town-home-201412151064218269.html

It's a little annoying that this starts with sports - the constant, lazy, patronizing example of black people being successful (can I be black-person-successful if it isn't in some kind of entertainment, or is my academic success shifting me into black-person-being-white territory?). But otherwise it is a very different perspective on immigration and asylum and refugees than the one we usually get, not as dirty semi-human interlopers but as valuable additions to the communities they are invited to join.

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