The authors of the report: “Most people who have not been granted asylum in Sweden and therefore returned to Afghanistan and Iraq live in miserable conditions. A majority of them plan to re-migrate to Sweden or to another EU country. We show this in our new report, based on interviews with one hundred returnees,” it says in the debate article that was published when the report was released. In connection with the debate article being published, the report author Henrik Malm Lindberg was interviewed on Swedish Radio. The report also had an international impact when Constanza Vera-Larrucea was interviewed by Forbes magazine.
In our study, we see that those who returned to Iraq had a comparatively better situation than the Afghans. This, in turn, seems to be mainly due to the fact that they were older and more well-established even before the trip to Sweden, but also that they to a greater extent had family and social networks to connect with.
A quote from the debate article regarding the respondents' different conditions for rebuilding their lives.
Read more about the return issue in the tab The project in the media.
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