This week: Halloween in Sweden, Swedish media coverage of the Tidö government’s migration crackdown, our favourite Swedish children’s books, efforts to form Sweden’s next government, and a language quiz.
The last four years have seen sweeping change for immigrants in Sweden.
For many of The Local's readers, the lack of transitional rules in the new citizenship law caused untold stress. The same goes for multiple changes to the salary threshold required for a work permit.
Teen deportations hit the headlines in Sweden last year. But why did it take so long? And how come Swedish media missed so much of what was impacting the lives of people who chose to make Sweden their home?
Host Richard Orange is joined this week by panelists Mandy Pipher and Emma Löfgren.
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Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:
Halloween
Immigration
Politics
- Region Stockholm reaches centrist governing agreement, freezing out the left
- What does Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist really want?
- What would it take for Sweden's Centre Party to back Ulf Kristersson as PM?
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