SWEDEN AROUND 300 CHILDREN ALONE ARRIVED TO CLAIM ASYLUM SINCE JANUARY 2015 WHICH HAS CREATE WORRIES FOR GOVT AS LAST YEAR 7409 CHILDREN ARRIVED AND SOUGHT ASYLUM WITHOUT A PARENT OR GUARDIAN OR OLDER SIBLING Updated: 20 Jan 2015 12:32 GMT+01:00 There are worries about the rising number of unaccompanied refugee children in Sweden, with around 300 estimated to have arrived since the start of 2015. Sweden’s Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) says that the number of unaccompanied children arriving during the first two weeks of the year matches the number that came throughout the whole of January 2014. Last year, 7049 children came to Sweden and sought asylum without a parent, guardian or older sibling - an increase of more than 80 percent on 2013. Sweden’s Refugee Agency had predicted that around 4100 children would arrive. Most of the refugees are fleeing violence in Syria and Eritrea. On Tuesday, Ronny Magnusson from Sweden’s Migration Agency told Swedish broadcaster SVT that it was “difficult” to make predictions for the year ahead and stressed that no matter now many children arrived, they would all be looked after. “We have to take care of them….County administrative boards are negotiating with local authorities to increase the number of places for these children,” he added. Sweden has one of the most liberal refugee policies in Europe, with 50,235 people seeking asylum there in the past three years. Sweden currently takes in more refugees per capita than any other European country and the Swedish government has pledged 1,200 resettlement places.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:53:45 +0000
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