Finland tightens controls at Swedish border
Finland will tighten control over its northern border in an effort to control the flow of refugees that come to the country by land through northern Sweden. Sunday alone saw three hundred asylum seekers arrive in the northern town of Torneå, which lies just over the Finnish border.
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The story of a Somali refugee: ’Now that I’m in Sweden I feel free and very happy’ – video
Omar, a Somali refugee, fled the war in Libya last year to live in a camp on the country’s border with Tunisia. This episode of his story, Rain is Beautiful, begins with emotional farewells at the camp as Omar leaves his friends behind to begin a new life in Sandviken in northern Sweden. He is met at Stockholm airport by the Swedish migration board, visits a doctor, gets his ’right to remain’ signed and learns what margarine is
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/aug/16/somali-refugee-sweden-video?CMP=twt_gu