A Swedish Tale

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sweden received more asylum seekers per capita than any other country last year. But an open borders policy was slowly rowed back as accommodation started to run out and the authorities struggled to cope with the arrival of so many newcomers. In the Swedish town of Ange, 1,000 asylum seekers are starting new lives within a community of 9,000 locals. Keith Moore finds out how locals and asylum seekers are getting on.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading from the BBC.
0:04.0	The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com slash podcasts. Sometimes life changes in ways that we could never have expected.
0:18.0	Oh, it's cold.
0:21.0	Yeah, it's very cold.
0:24.0	It's minus 3 degrees Celsius as 18 year old Sarah waits outside school.
0:29.0	She was one of millions of people to seek asylum in Europe last year.
0:32.0	Now she's in the rural north of Sweden.
0:35.0	I'm Keith Moore and welcome to the documentary on the BBC World Service.
0:40.0	Minus 3 is a warm day here in winter. On some days it can get as low as minus 30.
0:46.0	In December the sun sets at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
0:49.0	I'll talk to you something, my dad is sitting here.
0:52.0	Okay. So if you something, my dad's at you here.
0:52.8	Okay.
0:53.3	So if you want, he can go with us.
0:56.0	Okay, we'll walk together.
0:57.6	That'd be nice.
0:58.8	In the building next to the school, her father, Mohammed, studies Swedish.
1:03.0	They've been in Sweden for three months.
1:05.0	It's difficult for us at the beginning, but now it's okay.
1:09.0	We started to get used to this. A new life. It's a big change for them but also for the
1:19.7	place they've moved to. Ongar is a community made up of small towns and villages.
1:24.7	It's a five-hour train journey north of Stockholm.
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