Sweden is Out of Housing for Refugees
bloomberg.com
bloomberg.com
This is a new development as the previous official line has been that the situation is strained but under control.
[1]: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/morgan-johansson-gransen-fo...
[2]: http://www.gp.se/nyheter/sverige/1.2887462-minister-boenden-...
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It isn't reasonable to expect Turkey and Lebanon to take all refugees from Syria for example.
Also the responsibility of airlines for paying the costs of returning anyone who is not allowed to enter a country should be removed. It is a very hard-line rule that creates a lot of unnecessary suffering and also creates a huge black market (trafficking). [1]
Sweden is free to do what they want, just like other countries can decide their own foreign policy.
I'm not saying I support building walls at the border, but again, countries are free to do what they want with their territory, they don't owe anything to refugees or other nations.
I was a migrant worker myself, and while I'm grateful for the opportunity to work for a higher salary than I could get home, I still believe that the open work policies are bad for both sides - developing nations get a huge brain drain and a slower internal development, while developed countries get a lot of cheap workers and have unemployment problems with their own citizens...
For the countries currently losing most of their qualified and educated citizens, it's certainly not a good thing.
Here's someone who says that immigration contributed moderately to the rise of wage inequality by increasing the supply of low-skilled labor during the 1980's, but that the effect on native worker outcomes was very slight: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2118131?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
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"Some countries even rely upon immigrants to keep their social security system up and running, due to their own citizens aging rapidly and not having enough population growth. I believe Germany is one such example."
That's interesting. Maybe this could help with demographic problems here in the U.S. For example amnesty could capture new tax and social security revenues from millions of younger workers. Demand might be lower at a legal minimum wage however.
The supply of jobs is finite imo - a warehouse needs 20 unskilled workers, they'll get 20 workers working for 1200 Euro instead of 20 working for twice the wage, so 20 local people in a town are left with nothing...
So the answer is a ratio, and it's probably not 1:1. Maybe it's 1:.5, but it's almost certainly not as bad as the 1:1.
A meaningless sentence to anyone outside the States. Can someone write to Bloomberg and tell them how the Internet works?
I think it's just hard to come up with useful analogies for huge-scale events like this. But yeah, it seems pretty phoned in.
Try this: imagine the crowds you have to deal with going to a major mass-market sporting event, now imagine 8 of those, now make it last for three years, and now set the end date to "indefinite".
the last paragraph @Some recent arrivals, especially those from Syria, are educated and may find jobs relatively quickly. Rama Yousef, a university graduate who came in 2013 with her family, spent five months in a government-paid intensive Swedish course, then enrolled in a program at Stockholm University that helps highly qualified immigrants find jobs. She now works in the Stockholm office of consulting group Capgemini. “The Swedish people have done a lot for me,” she says.
Is something youd never read in a swedish newpaper, or atleast thats how i interpret our news. All you read is how ungreatfull people are for any help they get. Guess it's easier to sell newspapers to idiots if you write abous idiots acting like idiots.
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Current article title: "Sweden Feels the Refugee Strain"
The word "housing" doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the article.
I think the current article title better reflects the content of the story.