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Posted on May 28, 2022 by Baron Bodissey
Thousands of Somalis have left their homes and migrated to Sweden in search of a better life there, and, boy, have they found it!
Many thanks to LN for translating this article from Fria Tider:
“Sweden is good” — Hassan hasn’t worked a day after 11 years in the country
May 27, 2022
A father of nine, Hassan Dhgey Himiye of Filipstad managed to make it from Somalia to Sweden eleven years ago. A real jackpot, it would turn out, as eleven years later he still has not made a move in the new country, reports SVT.
Facts: Somalis
Somalis are a vulnerable group:
At the end of 2019, 111,014 Somalis were living in Sweden (SCB).Each Somali who receives a residence permit costs taxpayers SEK 10 million (ABC).Among Somalis who have lived in Sweden for up to four years, the median income from work is 100 SEK/month and the rest is benefits (RUT).Nine out of ten Somali immigrants are illiterate (Yle).One in five young Somali men in Gothenburg are involved in at least one violent crime in a two-year period (GP)82% of Somalis in Sweden are unemployed (SR)The average IQ in Somalia is about 68. This means that the probability that a random Swede has a higher IQ than a random Somali is 94 percent (Lynn 2002).Somalis are significantly more satisfied with life in Sweden than ethnic Swedes are. Somali illiterates are the most satisfied with Sweden (SvD).Hassan himself is of the opinion that Sweden is a really great country.
“Sweden is good,” he says to SVT [Swedish state television] and emphasizes:
“It is very good in Sweden.”
The statement is in line with previous figures showing that Somalis are considerably more satisfied with life in Sweden than ethnic Swedes are. Somali illiterates are the most satisfied with Sweden, according to SvD, which describes the group as “the most proud Swedes” there are.
However, according to YLE, as many as nine out of ten Somali immigrants are illiterate.
“Those who feel most at home and proud are the Somalis,” said Bi Puranen, secretary general of the World Values Survey, when the survey was presented.
In the case of Hassan in Filipstad, SVT has made a so-called sob story in which they try to make it look like he has hardly done anything but look for a job for the past eleven years, but still can’t find a job.
Hassan is not alone in being a Somali and not working. Last year, a report from the Moderates showed that media Somalis’ job income was 100 SEK a month. The rest was made up of benefits.
According to SVT, Hassan has an internship at the labour market and integration unit (sic!) at the municipality.
“We are changing the population. You can think what you want about it; it depends on how you are inclined. But it is just stating the facts that this is what we are actually doing and then we must relate to it,” said the municipality’s integration manager Jim Frölander to SVT 2019.
How Hassan has time to practice at the unit is unclear, however, because, according to SVT, the man has nine children, which he takes care of himself because he “became a widower” two years ago.
How his wife died, however, is not clear from the SVT report.
In Filipstad, 32% of immigrants have no work. In 2017, 58 percent of them had no job, but the figure is still significantly worse than the figure for the country as a whole, where 17 percent of immigrants have no job.
“We certainly don’t have jobs for all those who came, but we try to help them and make them as employable as possible,” says municipal councilor Åsa Hååkman Eriksson (S) to SVT.
Afterword from the translator:
Hassan is one of the many engineers, doctors, teachers, and other academics who make Sweden so much better and lovelier. |
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