Why this year's Swedish National Day will be bittersweet

This week we look at the government’s solution to teen deportations, and we discuss the new citizenship law coming into force on Saturday, which also happens to be National Day.

We also talk about how unnerving it can be for foreigners when a young child switches to Swedish before you even properly understand it.

And for Membership+ subscribers, we talk about the Swedish community in the US and how they keep their Swedishness alive.

Host Richard Orange is joined this week by panelists Mandy Pipher and James Savage.

Here are links to some of the topics discussed in the episode:

Immigration

Politics

Citizenship-scandal Sweden Democrat MP quits over child pornography probe

Family

The hardest part of moving to Sweden? Suddenly not understanding my own child

Sweden and the US

The migration crisis that divided Sweden and made it a better country

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