at the beginning of March published Swedish liberal-conservative Moderate party on Facebook a picture of your Chairman, Ulf Kristersson, hunting apparel, and with the words: “Strengthened the border. The refugee crisis of 2015 is not allowed to repeat itself.”
Atoosa Farahmand is angry. “How has he shown 2015?” For Farahmand 2015 is an important year. It is the year sought, in the millions of people in Europe, the protection and found. And it is also “your” year, Because the young woman from Iran is a refugee himself. In 2015, the Swedish authorities processed her application for Asylum, along with about 163.000 other initial applications. The actress and dancer managed to find a Job – although you should only receive a year later a residence permit.
in 2015, post a picture of yourself in the same Pose as Kristersson, arms crossed, looking directly into the camera, addressed to: “Jag är!” – “I am the 2015”. And she tells her own story: That she pays taxes, respect the law and, in the meantime, fluent Swedish speaking. “We need to raise awareness of the positive contribution of refugees to the country can be,” she writes in Swedish. “We need to be heard by all the politicians who speak badly about us.”
Farahmand directly addresses Kristersson: “they say, 2015 will not happen again. I would like to say that I was a part of the 2015 am, along with many others. We are a part of this country, whether you like it or not.” Finally, she encourages others to tell their own stories of 2015. Within a few hours, you post on the Internet spread.
A new life for migrants and for Sweden
Now, a month later, has collected Atoosa Farahmand over 1,500 stories of people who say they have 2015. Many are former refugees from Syria, while others come from Afghanistan or Somalia.
There are stories like that of Nabila and her family, who fled in 2015, before the war in their Syrian homeland. Now Nabila is a bus driver in Ronneby, a city in southern Sweden. Also Duaa is to escape in 2015, the war, the country, and in the meantime she is working as a pharmacist in Malmo. Mohammed fled in 2014 and is now available as an auxiliary nurse and interpreter in Kristianstad. Haya was also in 2014 and now studying in Stockholm architecture. Abdul Karim from Syria’s Idlib today, a construction worker in the South of Sweden Boras, told: “In my home country I studied law. There is a big difference between the Job as a construction worker and the law. But this is not a Problem for me, since I live here in freedom.”
the stories from Sweden, whose life has changed in 2015, as they helped refugees and migrants in the Scandinavian country to settle down come. One of them, Lena Lundstrom, a Pensioner from the Central Swedish town of Ludvika is. In 2015, the local authorities asked them to newcomers, which came with the train from Malmö.
“That’s not happened Once, not two Times,” she writes on Facebook. “It happened every day.” Lundstrom is the legal guardian of 13 Afghan youth finally. “The road was rocky, but all have adapted to the Situation in the new country.” Not all their wards have not, however, obtain a residence permit. “Now, since you are in the situation, the aid received to repay, many of them cannot remain in the country. This is something I understand only very difficult,” writes Lundstrom. Sweden has granted many Syrians asylum. Afghans did not get, however, as in many other European countries, the same level of protection.
A home-made crisis
“my focus now is to collect all the stories and pass them to the Parliament,” says Atoosa Farahmand. “You need to read these stories. We are part of this country and it is very important that you hear our voices and that we are starting a new discussion to find solutions for the Situation in Greece and in Sweden.”
Farahmand want “Jag is är 2015” to be a European movement, with contributions from people from all over the continent, and raise their voice and be heard. It is not only Sweden’s responsibility. “You know how many refugees currently in Greece to stop them? If you would split the 27 countries of the EU, it would not be a crisis. It would be nothing.”
author: Nancy Isenson (sth)
*The article “refugees in Sweden: “We are published in 2015″” from Deutsche Welle. Contact with the executives here.
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