How immigration is changing the Swedish welfare state

TENSIONS were running high when your correspondent visited Sweden at the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, in late 2015.

In Malmo, a heavily immigrant city in the south, one cashier in a local shop was particularly angry. “They are just here for welfare and benefits,” he said

Many refugees do not have the skills or connections to enter the workforce. 

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