Why don't pregnancy or parenthood matter for Sweden's Migration Agency?
This week: Why are the Social Democrats acting like bit players? Why have a mother-to-be and an active father been told to leave Sweden? Are immigration laws scaring off foreign workers? And what do y...
30 Loka 43min
What would make the Centre Party rejoin the right in Sweden?
This week's Sweden in Focus Extra podcast features an interview with Matilda Molander, head of the green and liberal Fores think tank.Not yet a member of The Local? Join now with this special offer fo...
27 Loka 17min
Why did Swedish media miss so much of the immigration clampdown?
This week: Halloween in Sweden, Swedish media coverage of the Tidö government’s migration crackdown, our favourite Swedish children’s books, efforts to form Sweden’s next government, and a language qu...
23 Loka 40min
Ex-Northvolt worker ordered to leave Sweden while 21 weeks pregnant
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with Brenda and Marcus Ramström, a couple in western Sweden who speak to The Local days before she is forced to return to her native Brazil foll...
20 Loka 33min
What next for Sweden as Magdalena Andersson loses first PM vote?
This week: First month post-election ends with no government, breakthrough on ending teen deportations, a plan to help citizenship applicants hit retroactively by the new law, and a reminder of some o...
16 Loka 36min
'Life's uncertain for immigrants in Sweden but it's important not to despair'
This week’s Sweden in Focus Extra features an interview with AI consultant Anna Bärlund, who won an appeal last week against her Swedish citizenship rejection. Not yet a member of The Local? Join now ...
13 Loka 15min
What do foreigners in Sweden miss from home?
This week: Tortuous efforts to form a government, plans to stop teen deportations, how new rules on family reunification could make life harder for university researchers, and what do The Local’s read...
8 Loka 37min
'Deportations made foreign writers ask: Do I belong in Sweden?'
Not yet a member of The Local? Join now with this special offer for podcast listeners. Gift Blessing is only 24 years old, but has already achieved an enormous amount. He is a rapper, an author, a new...
6 Loka 39min
