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Sweden: Limiting immigration

01 January 1995

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The new Social Democrat Minister for Immigration, Leif Blomberg, has decided to set a maximum figure for the number of refugees to be granted asylum on humanitarian grounds, which is by far the largest category.

In 1993/4 a total of 43,500 - 79% of all refugees allowed to stay were on humanitarian grounds. 11%, 1,650, on grounds defined by the UN, such as the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia. Of the remainder, 7% were "de facto-refugees" who did not fulfil UN criteria.

Riksdag & Department, no 38/1994.

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