Asylum and Refugees in Sweden
Asylum and Refugees in Sweden

Author(s): Bernd Parusel
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Asylum; Refugees in Sweden; Refugees; Sweden;
Summary/Abstract: With about 20 percent of its population of roughly 10.5 million people born in other countries, Sweden is today clearly a country of immigration. Apart from work- or study-related immigration, migration for family reasons, and intra-EU migration flows for various purposes, Sweden has over the past few decades received and accepted many asylum seekers and refugees from different parts of the world. Among all residents born abroad, 2.1 million people in total, people from Syria, Iraq, Finland, Poland, and Iran make up the largest immigrant groups today (SCB, 2022). During certain periods, as for example in 2014-2015, Sweden was one of the main refugee-receiving countries within in Europe, mostly in relative (comparative) terms, but also in absolute numbers.

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