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More money earmarked for Somali reunification in Sweden

Thursday, 30 August 2012
The Swedish government is to hands out Skr1.3 billion to municipalities receiving Somali family immigrants. This comes after they continue to find it very hard to make Sweden a comfortable place for them to hide after escaping their war ravaged country.

An example is our recent report about how a Somali community in a small Swedish town of Forserum decided to leave that town because of persistent racial harassment.

Now the four Swedish government parties have agreed to include in their autumn budget an agreement to provide grants to municipalities to receive Somalis who immigrate as dependents of refugees who came to Sweden before, according to Swedish radio.

The amount made up of 1.3 billion, is spread over four years and most of the money will be distributed for the first two years.
Some municipalities criticized the proposal on ground that the amount of money provided is too little.

But Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag feels that the group of Somalis to be affected are not really as great when compared to other groups of Somalis that have been in such need at other times.
The government estimates that nearly 4,000 family immigrants will come from Somalia in the coming years, mostly children. Previous calculations have been lurking in the region of about 20 000.

For some time now, the armed conflict in Somalia has become less intense than it has been in the past decades. But the country is one of the poorest in the world and lack everything.
Despite that Somalis who migrate to Sweden also face intense repudiation and various forms of discrimination in Sweden.
by Scancomark.com Team