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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 667834" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>That is a good question isn't it?</p><p></p><p>While as I said we have far less people coming in than Germany, there is of course much less of us. Every place we do have for lodging newcomers is full and currently we are fervently opening new places. And before those we do lodge them to floors of mostly church buildings, many universities are giving their sport facilities for this and places like that. And also many people have invited asylum seekers to temporarily reside in their homes.</p><p>A new asylum seeker costs about 45 dollars a day for our government.</p><p></p><p>Long term will be challenging. After they either get permission to stay or are sent off (there are quite a few people coming also from areas of Iraq that our government considers safe, those are sent back home if they can show why they would need asylum. Most of asylum seekers in my country actually are Iraqi, not Syrian, but most from those parts of Iraq our government considers unsafe. We do not have existing established Syrian community, so Syrians actually prefer other countries that already have Syrian community waiting them) it will be time to start to house them more permanently. unfortunately areas they would most likely want to live in are having shortage of available housing and areas that have amble housing have less opportunities for them.</p><p></p><p>And none certainly talk a word of our language so there will be that first. Kids of course will need one year quite expensive preparatory teaching before they can be expected to manage in our schools and even then their special needs will need to be taken into account (basically first they will likely need an aide and even later children whose first language is not classroom language are taken into account in allowed Teacher/student ratio. While government pays those extra costs and not counties and towns themselves, they do need more room for more groups.</p><p></p><p>Adults after they get permission to stay are entitled to same benefits as everyone else. Some live with those, some are able to find work, traditionally many start small businesses (I can't remember when I have last time eaten in pizzeria with ethnic local owner, they are all own owned by middle eastern people.)</p><p></p><p>There has been great differences between people coming from different parts of world and how they have done. Vietnamese were almost all success stories, also Kosovo Albanians have mostly done very well. Somalians have struggled a lot (both unemployment and crime are big issues) while Nigerian and Kurdish have done much better and so on.</p><p></p><p>Social integration will be a huge challenge and something we did not hope during tough financial times like what we have now. But they are here, they are cold, hungry and have no roof over their head and we can't turn our backs to them so we just have to come up solutions to make it happen as smoothly as possible. We can't give up of our values and morals just because there is lots of them and becuase it will be a struggle to help them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 667834, member: 14557"] That is a good question isn't it? While as I said we have far less people coming in than Germany, there is of course much less of us. Every place we do have for lodging newcomers is full and currently we are fervently opening new places. And before those we do lodge them to floors of mostly church buildings, many universities are giving their sport facilities for this and places like that. And also many people have invited asylum seekers to temporarily reside in their homes. A new asylum seeker costs about 45 dollars a day for our government. Long term will be challenging. After they either get permission to stay or are sent off (there are quite a few people coming also from areas of Iraq that our government considers safe, those are sent back home if they can show why they would need asylum. Most of asylum seekers in my country actually are Iraqi, not Syrian, but most from those parts of Iraq our government considers unsafe. We do not have existing established Syrian community, so Syrians actually prefer other countries that already have Syrian community waiting them) it will be time to start to house them more permanently. unfortunately areas they would most likely want to live in are having shortage of available housing and areas that have amble housing have less opportunities for them. And none certainly talk a word of our language so there will be that first. Kids of course will need one year quite expensive preparatory teaching before they can be expected to manage in our schools and even then their special needs will need to be taken into account (basically first they will likely need an aide and even later children whose first language is not classroom language are taken into account in allowed Teacher/student ratio. While government pays those extra costs and not counties and towns themselves, they do need more room for more groups. Adults after they get permission to stay are entitled to same benefits as everyone else. Some live with those, some are able to find work, traditionally many start small businesses (I can't remember when I have last time eaten in pizzeria with ethnic local owner, they are all own owned by middle eastern people.) There has been great differences between people coming from different parts of world and how they have done. Vietnamese were almost all success stories, also Kosovo Albanians have mostly done very well. Somalians have struggled a lot (both unemployment and crime are big issues) while Nigerian and Kurdish have done much better and so on. Social integration will be a huge challenge and something we did not hope during tough financial times like what we have now. But they are here, they are cold, hungry and have no roof over their head and we can't turn our backs to them so we just have to come up solutions to make it happen as smoothly as possible. We can't give up of our values and morals just because there is lots of them and becuase it will be a struggle to help them. [/QUOTE]
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