grzegorz wrote:Actually no...
My point is people migrating to parts of the world with better opportunities for food and now jobs is as old as time itself.
Swedes didn't emigrate cause of war. In the 1800s, there was famine, a high unemployment. People starved which caused more than one third of the whole population to flee and most of them tried to emigrate to the US. In the US there was plenty of opportunities, pan for gold and working at the railroads and much more. Northern America was a natural choice to seek out opportunities and create a better future. In the beginning of the 1900s people continued to emigrate to America for various reasons. My grandfather lived in the US from about the beginning of the 00s to 1913. He was a very good writer and got a job as a journalist. He was also from a quite good family and they had no economical problems. So he just wanted to seek out adventures.
But moving to Sweden is no adventure. Sweden has no opportunities to offer refugees except a place to live, food and clothes. People live stacked in small areas without anything to do. They don't come here or choose to stay here by their free will. They come here because there are no other choice left as no nearby country have places left and very few European countries accept to take on the burden of the great humanitarian mess initially created by the US. I have no idea why we don't send them all to the US. At least, Sweden could send a big fat bill.