In the spring, the Government will appoint an inquiry into repatriation, which aims to get more people with residence permits to return to their home countries. In Ale municipality, a campaign has already been launched to inform about the possibility of repatriation.
Minister for Migration Maria Malmer Stenergard believes that many people are not aware that there is support and support available for those who want to move back to their home country. Therefore, it is important to inform.
– If you feel that you have not come into your own, that you have not integrated, that Sweden may not have been as you imagined, and you long to return to your homeland. Then it is important that there is support and help available so that there is a reasonable reintegration on site, she says in Agenda.
"Quite natural"
She does not consider the measure particularly dramatic.
"If you think that you have fled here because of, for example, war and it is now a better situation in your home country. Then it is quite natural that in many cases you want to turn back.
But MP's spokesperson Märta Stenevi accuses the government of trying to make people feel unwelcome in Sweden.
"When this proposal comes in combination with denunciation laws, search zones and collective punishment. Then I meet people basically every day who feel very worried," she says.
"Creates insecurity"
Stenergard emphasizes that many live in a "brutal exclusion" as a result of an "unsustainable immigration policy". Repatriation is one of the measures that the government and SD want to take to reverse the trend.
According to Stenevi, however, their policy has nothing to do with integration.
"You don't focus on integration. You focus on making people feel unwelcome. You create an insecurity for the children who grow up here and who have never known any other homeland," she says.
Watch the debate between Märta Stenevi and Maria Malmer Stenergard in the video player above.