As immigrants from Muslim nations go north, Denmark and Sweden wrestle with how, or whether, to be a haven for those who are ...

MALMO, Sweden (Reuters) - Swedish police started checking trains for migrants on Thursday, imposing the first large-scale border controls in two decades, a move criticised by one opposition party as ...

In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, The Local's contributor Amélie Reichmuth interviews Laurence Romani from the ...

Archbishop Lhernould said the Oct. 22 sinking of a migrant boat off the coast of Tunisia that killed 40 people cannot be ...

The government greatly increased a grant to encourage more immigrants to return home. Critics say it sends the wrong message and, in any case, may not tempt many refugees. By Lynsey Chutel Sweden, a ...

Sweden is radically changing its migrant policies, in what the government is calling a "paradigm shift," to reverse the course of decades of leniency. The Minister of Migration announced it would pay ...

MALMO, Sweden, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Around 700 refugee children are arriving every week without their parents in Sweden, many injured in accidents and some bearing the physical and psychological scars ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The evacuation of a squalid Roma camp this week has forced Sweden to come to terms with a troubling new reality: For the first time in generations, the egalitarian welfare nation is ...