Most Swedes recognise immigration is necessary to sustain economic growth



Government Offices of Sweden

Published 23 February 2017 · Updated 23 February 2017

http://www.government.se/articles/2017/02/facts-about-migration-and-crime-in-sweden/



Facts about migration and crime in Sweden

In recent times, simplistic and occasionally completely inaccurate information about Sweden and Swedish migration policy has been disseminated. Here, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs looks at some of the most common claims.


Claim: "Sweden had its first islamic terrorist attack not so long ago"

Facts: The only known attempt at such an attack was in 2010. No one was harmed but the attacker.


Claim: "There has been a major increase in gun violence in Sweden."

Facts: In general terms, violence has decreased in Sweden in the last 20 years. At the same time, surveys repeatedly show that people in Sweden and in other Western countries have a perception that violence is actually increasing. Perceptions of increased violence have been linked to the number of immigrants in Sweden. Nonetheless, research shows that there is no evidence to indicate that immigration leads to increased crime. Despite the fact that the number of immigrants in Sweden has increased since the 1990s, exposure to violent crimes has declined.

Data from the Swedish Crime Survey shows that in terms of lethal violence, there has generally been a downward trend over the past 25 years. Nonetheless, the level in 2015 – when a total of 112 cases of lethal violence were reported – was higher than for many years.

Studies conducted by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention show that lethal violence using firearms has increased within the context of criminal conflicts. The number of confirmed or suspected shootings was 20 per cent higher in 2014 than in 2006. The statistics also show that 17 people were killed with firearms in 2011, while the corresponding figure in 2015 was 33.

Figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) show that in 2012, 0.7 murders were committed in Sweden per 100 000 inhabitants.

Source: https://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/data.html


Claim: "There has been a major increase in the number of rapes in Sweden."

Facts: The number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen. But the definition of rape has broadened over time, which makes it difficult to compare the figures. It is also misleading to compare the figures with other countries, as many acts that are considered rape under Swedish law are not considered rape in many other countries.

For example: If a woman in Sweden reports that she has been raped by her husband every night for a year, that is counted as 365 separate offences; in most other countries this would be registered as a single offence, or would not be registered as an offence at all.

Willingness to report such offences also differs dramatically between countries. A culture in which these crimes are talked about openly, and victims are not blamed, will also have more cases reported. Sweden has made a conscious effort to encourage women to report any offence.

Read more about the legal implications of the term 'rape' (in Swedish):

http://www.notisum.se/rnp/sls/lag/19620700.htm#K6
https://www.bra.se/download/18.3717...1_Nationella_trygghetsundersokningen_2016.pdf



Claim: "Refugees are behind the increase in crime, but the authorities are covering it up."

Facts: According to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention's Swedish Crime Survey, some 13 per cent of the population were the victim of an offence against them personally in 2015. This is an increase on preceding years, although it is roughly the same level as in 2005.

The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention has conducted two studies into the representation of people from foreign backgrounds among crime suspects, the most recent in 2005. The studies show that the majority of those suspected of crimes were born in Sweden to two Swedish-born parents. The studies also show that the vast majority of people from foreign backgrounds are not suspected of any crimes.

People from foreign backgrounds are suspected of crimes more often than people from a Swedish background. According to the most recent study, people from foreign backgrounds are 2.5 times more likely to be suspected of crimes than people born in Sweden to Swedish-born parents. In a later study, researchers at Stockholm University showed that the main difference in terms of criminal activity between immigrants and others in the population was due to differences in the socioeconomic conditions in which they grew up in Sweden. This means factors such as parents' incomes, and the social circumstances in the area in which an individual grew up.

Swedish government agencies have nothing to gain from covering up statistics and facts; they seek an open and fact-based dialogue. Sweden is an open society governed by a principle of public access to official documents. This means that members of the public, e.g. private individuals and media representatives, have the right to insight into and access to information about the activities of central and local government.



Claim: "In Sweden there are a number of 'no-go zones' where criminality and gangs have taken over and where the emergency services do not dare to go."

Facts: No. In a report published in February 2016, the Swedish Police Authority identified 53 residential areas around the country that have become increasingly marred by crime, social unrest and insecurity. These places have been incorrectly labelled 'no-go zones'. What is true, however, is that in several of these areas the police have experienced difficulties fulfilling their duties; but it is not the case that the police do not go to them or that Swedish law does not apply there.

The causes of the problems in these areas are complex and multifaceted. To reverse the trend, more initiatives are required from all of society, at all levels.

Read more: The Swedish Police (in Swedish)



Claim: "The high level of immigration means that the system in Sweden is on the verge of collapse."

Facts: No. The Swedish economy is strong. Despite the high costs of immigration, Sweden recorded a public finance surplus in 2015, and the forecasts indicate that the surplus is set to grow until 2020.

Moreover, Sweden has had one of the highest rates of growth in Europe over the last two years. Youth unemployment has declined considerably and is now at its lowest level for 13 years, and long-term unemployment (12 months or longer) is the lowest in the EU.

In addition, the World Economic Forum has identified Sweden as being among the top countries in many international rankings.

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017...ost-other-countries-at-just-about-everything/

A large number of people have sought protection in Sweden. In 2015, almost 163 000 people sought asylum here. The measures subsequently taken by the Government, including temporary ID checks and border controls, and the new temporary asylum legislation, have led to fewer people now seeking asylum in Sweden.

Read more: Swedish Migration Agency

Sweden needs immigration to compensate for the decline in numbers of babies being born here.

Read more: History of migration in Sweden



Claim: "Muslims will soon be in the majority in Sweden."

Facts: No. It is estimated that there are a few hundred thousand people in Sweden whose roots are in predominantly Muslim countries. But this figure says nothing about how many are religious or not.

The Muslim faith communities have approximately 140 000 members. This is about 1.5 per cent of Sweden's population. The largest faith communities are the Church of Sweden, the Pentecostal Movement and the Roman Catholic Church. Of Sweden's ten million inhabitants, 6.2 million are members of the Church of Sweden.

Prejudices and negative attitudes towards Muslims exist in many areas of society. A report published by the Equality Ombudsman in 2015 shows that Islamophobia is manifested in threats, violence, verbal abuse, media attacks, harassment in schools, unfavourable opportunities for finding a job, and in other ways.
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https://www.migrationsverket.se/Eng...-Agency/Facts-and-statistics-/Statistics.html

Asylum applications

The total number of asylum applications in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

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(The text in the chart is in Swedish.)

The largest groups

The largest groups based on citizenship among those who have applied for asylum the past three weeks.
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Radicalised Aussies getting younger: ASIO

February 28, 20177:53pm
Roje AdaimyAustralian Associated Press

http://www.news.com.au/national/bre...o/news-story/d1c9c5365f26c4eb3fb2553bca138451

The age of Australians being radicalised by Islamic State is getting younger and younger, the head of the country's security agency says.

ASIO Director-General Duncan Lewis has warned of the emergence of increasingly young Islamist extremists, whose activities will continue to impact Australia's security environment.

In 2013, 45 per cent of Sunni Islamist extremists that were being investigated by his agency fell in the age group of 25-34.

In 2015, 40 per cent of those under investigation were aged between 15 and 24.

"It basically dropped by a decade in the space of a couple of years," Mr Lewis told a Senate estimates committee on Tuesday night.

"We are still looking at a very young cohort that are impacted and influenced by this ISIL extremist, violent message."

He said that made it a real challenge because there was a dramatic difference in trying to manage a radicalised 16-year-old and a 26 or 36-year-old.

The primary terrorism threat continues to emanate from people who adhere to a violent extremist interpretation of Sunni Islam.

All those involved in the four attacks on Australian soil and those disrupted were inspired by that philosophy, Mr Lewis said.

But there was also concern about some individuals who combine extreme right-wing anti-Islam ideology with a willingness to use violence.

He stressed, however, that those subject to investigation make up only a very small fraction of the community they are from.

The several hundred Australians being influenced by Islamic extremist propaganda, for example, represent less than 0.1 per cent of the roughly half-a-million Australian Muslims.

"The other 99.9 per cent of Australian Muslims are not involved in activities of security concern in any way and are of no interest to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation," he said.

The threat of cyber terrorism and espionage is also a concern for Australia, he says, as other nations and non-state actors become "more capable and aggressive".
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Of course this is a shot at the U.S. because people claim that we are anti-immigration, which is a complete lie. The only thing we ask is that you do it legally. Not only that, we ask also that you add value to our society. Coming here and wanting to leech off of the system and demand that we change our ways to reflect the place from which you left is bullshit.
 
sle said:
Sorry, what? Where did I infer that? Where did I even say ANYTHING about Sweds preferences? I just merely pointed out that you, among others, say hearsay stuff and pretend that it is economic argument. Also, you moved the point of discussion from immigration to Muslims, which is not the same thing.
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"you moved the point of discussion from immigration to Muslims, which is not the same thing."
nowadays for Sweden it is.in earlier years it was Eastern Europeans.
 

what part of your story, Trump didn't address? (I believe this part is a rather fuzzy zone and isn't necessarily true), that Most Swedes recognise immigration is necessary to sustain economic growth.
 



GET BUSY

Spain has appointed a ‘minister for sex’ to urge couples to have more babies and reverse the nation’s plummeting birth rate

Culture of long working hours and late nights is blamed for the nation's sex famine

By FELIX ALLEN
27th February 2017

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2967798/spain-sex-minister-tsar-birth-rate-edelmira-barreira/

SPAIN has appointed its first Minister of Sex whose job will be to get people busy between the sheets.

The government hopes to boost Spain’s falling birth rate, which is one of the lowest in the developed world.

Prime minister Mariano Rajoy appointed Edelmira Barreira as the country’s sex tsar to get Spaniards to produce more babies.

The country is faced with a population crisis, with fewer births than deaths recorded for the first time last year.

Experts say long working hours and a culture of eating late at night and going to bed after midnight are partly to blame for the nation’s sex famine.

Rafael Puyol, of the IE Business School in Madrid, said: “They do not help with making a family. Then when a child arrives it is even worse.”

Since 2008 the number of births in Spain has plunged by 18 per cent.

And the number of childless couples has nearly tripled from 1.5million in 1977 to 4.4million in 2015.

Most Spanish women say they would like two or more children but in 2015 those aged 18 to 49 had an average of 1.3 children – well below the EU figure of 1.58.

Spanish women also leave it later to have children, having their first child aged 32 on average – the oldest in Europe.

The Institute for Family Policies blamed the impact of the economic crisis for why many women are having children later in life.

Spain’s education ministry said the declining birth-rate “aggravates other economic imbalances and generates important impacts in the Welfare State”, Spanish newspaper ABC reported.

Ms Barreira’s portfolio will include drawing up a national strategy to tackle imbalances in the population.

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Edelmira Barreira will draw up a national strategy to get people to have more babies
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INNOVATION

New Zealand Will Pay For You To Visit If You Qualify For A Tech Job

Now's your chance to live like a Kiwi.

02/03/2017 6:46 AM AEDT | Updated 02/03/2017 8:22 AM AEDT


Suzy Strutner
Associate Lifestyle Editor, The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/20...ou-qualify-for-a-tech/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage

New Zealand is making it incredibly easy to move abroad, free flight provided.

The city of Wellington is looking to fill 100 open tech jobs, and it’s offering to fly worthy candidates down for a look, a hangout and rounds of job interviews that could lead to a full-time gig.

The program is called LookSee Wellington. Interested travelers are required to fill out an online job application, after which local tech companies will consider them for an interview. (Yes, we’re assuming a tech background will help.) If chosen, prospects will receive free flights and accommodations for a four-day stay in the land of beaches and beer bars.

The lucky 100 candidates offered positions will have the option to move to “Silicon Welly” shortly thereafter and start their new jobs.

New Zealand consistently ranks as one of the top places to live abroad, thanks in part to its plethora of outdoor activities. Not feeling tech-y enough for this particular opportunity? Find a cheap flight on your own, and get down there!
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