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Sweden: Muslim migrant joblessness at nearly 20%, government calls for even more Muslim migrants

Aug 17, 2018 6:33 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

While Swedish unemployment figures have seen a slight decline on average, there still remains a massive discrepancy between the unemployment rate of native Swedes and those born overseas.

“Heavily migrant populated southern Swedish city of Malmö has an average unemployment rate twice that of the rest of the country.” Despite the financial strain on Sweden, its government is calling “for even more immigration,” as Sweden continues to be plagued with war-like no-go-zones. 70 percent of the jihad fighters who left Sweden to join the Islamic State came from these no-go zones. Last year, Sweden’s largest shopping center was turned into a no-go zone. No-go zones also come with sharia patrols.

Swedish citizens continue to pay taxes in the face of their nation’s demise; and given open borders and unemployment figures, citizens are now burdened with a form of the jizya (the tax that non-Muslims must pay as a sign of their subjugation to the Muslims).

“Swedish Unemployment Figures Reveal Extent of Migrant Joblessness,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, August 16, 2018:

While Swedish unemployment figures have seen a slight decline on average, there still remains a massive discrepancy between the unemployment rate of native Swedes and those born overseas.

The new figures, released by the Swedish Public Employment Service, show that unemployment across the country has gone down from 7.3 percent last year to 6.9 percent.

For native Swedes the unemployment rate has declined from 3.9 to 3.6 percent, which if taken alone would give native Swedes one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union, tied with Hungary and only being beaten by Germany and the Czech Republic according to Eurostat figures from June of this year.

While the foreign-born unemployment rate has seen a slight decline as well, it remains much higher than the native Swedish rate at 19.9 percent, down from 21.8 percent in 2017. When compared to other European Union countries, only Greece has such a high rate with 20.2 percent.

The statistics come as the Swedish government has called for even more immigration, this time of skilled workers, to fill jobs in Sweden in sectors that have a high demand for new highly-skilled employees.

While the migrant crisis saw well over a hundred thousand asylum seekers flood into Sweden during and after 2015, many have complained that the new arrivals lack the proper skills to enter the Swedish labour force.

A report from the Swedish Employment Service last year showed that very few new migrants were even interested in pursuing education to achieve vocational qualifications, claiming that only three to four percent have expressed any interest in schooling at all…..

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  1. Notmoron says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    Evil does exist in Europe.

    • Andy says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 9:54 pm

      Leftie/liberals-People, Get on the diversity train.

      • Leon Degney says

        Aug 18, 2018 at 6:09 am

        Who voted Trudeau in. Didn’t you learn anything from history, you people? His “pedigree” isn’t one to be envied. His mother was an airhead and he exhibits the same trait, his probable biological father was a standover merchant. If not thrown out its curtains for Canada.

    • BC says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 5:08 am

      Why would they go to school when they can live at a much higher standard than what they had in their country of origin on Swedish Welfare. Paid for of course by the Swedish tax payers

      • Phil Copson says

        Aug 19, 2018 at 3:43 am

        Oh, no ! the craze for saying “than what” has spread to JW ! Sorry BC, “than what” is just “prole-speak” made fashionable by lefties.

        “than they had” – is just fine…

  2. PATRICIA KOENIG says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    Only 20% unemployment for Muslim immigrants in Sweden! I don’t believe it. Their unemployment rate is much higher than 20%!

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 7:40 pm

      Possibly the Swedish Government is cooking the books. Instead of classifying them as unemployed they may have been called students or disables or refugees. Reverse the test what proposition are in full time work?

      • dan christensen says

        Aug 18, 2018 at 3:19 am

        You bet the Swedish are cooking the books.
        They use many tricks. If a “refugee” is on a subsidised part time job emptying waste baskets he is “employed”. The “refugee” might otherwise be in a “trainee” position, learning this or that but in reality passing as an “employee”.
        It is the same all over Europe. Bureaucrats are doctoring statistics in order to divert criticism and raise the status of the parasites.
        I recall that a young syrian “engineer” got permanent employment as IT expert. Immediately the media reported that the employment figures revealed high success for these syrian hi-tech people.
        It then appeared that this guy was the only one in a pack of hundreds of syrian asylum seekers who got a permanent job. The remainder is still on public welfare.
        Trump is right – the media publish fake and doctored news to please the politicians who invite disasters of their own creation.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 8:30 pm

      I can’t believe it’s that low, either, Patricia.

      Here’s another story:

      “Fewer than 500 of 163,000 asylum seekers found jobs”

      https://www.thelocal.se/20160531/fewer-than-500-of-163000-asylum-seekers-found-jobs

      And some of those were just make-work–like having them work with Migrants. Even then, the employment rates are very low. I also wonder is the government is counting Muslimahs?

      • mortimer says

        Aug 17, 2018 at 10:47 pm

        Must be closer to 80% or even 90% unemployed.

        • Jayell says

          Aug 18, 2018 at 4:26 am

          80%-90% would certainly be in closer acccordance with the UK experience, where about 80-85% muslim females are registered unemployed and about 53% muslim males. And the UK economy is possibly stronger than the Swedish economy?

    • Alien Republican says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 2:17 am

      Probably.

      I don’t know how Sweden handles unemployment statistics but some countries do only count people as unemployed that are “actively looking” for a job. At some point 50+ people might become a number in the welfare statistics, which is a different tab.

      I’m not sure about this one, but if you never had a job, even if you are looking you probably don’t count as unemployed.

      By the way, I fell into the trap of equating “migrant” with “refugee”. The latter will have definitely an unemployment rate of 80+ %.

    • Ferd III says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 3:10 am

      The government lies about its Moslem pets. Here in London, 80 % are on welfare, 50% unemployment. Our crime has exploded due to Moslems and Africans. The Swedish society is in a pitiful state with crime, rapes and No-Go zones. Real unemployment must be similar to London. Or are your African Moslems smarter, better skilled and educated than our African Moslems? I doubt it, since neither country imposes a skills based immigration policy…..

    • Leon Degney says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 6:13 am

      Of course, it is much higher, these are very rubbery figures indeed. How many unskilled goat herders is any country able to absorb? The only goats to herd in Canada are the ones who voted Trudeau and his abysmal lot into office. It’s a classic case of the clowns running the circus.

    • J D S says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 10:14 pm

      Well 20% jobless rate isn’t too bad for the New country of Swedeistan.

  3. A_M_Swallow says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 7:45 pm

    The extravagance of Sweden’s feminist Government is causing it the most problems with immigrants since Rahab the harlot of Jericho betrayed the town by hiding two spies.
    Ref: Bible, Joshua 2, 6:12-25

  4. JeffS says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 9:48 pm

    It seems like whenever I see an article about Sweden, my draw drops at the depths of their insanity. Immigrant unemployment at 20% (and probably much higher as pointed out by Patricia above), and the solution is even more immigrants! How about train the native Swedes to do these jobs?

  5. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 12:45 am

    “many have complained that the new arrivals lack the proper skills to enter the Swedish labour force.”

    They do however have exactly the skill set required to enter either the local mujahideen cult, or to find themselves employed by the State as a welfare vegetable.

    It is far from impossible to fill both positions at the same time.

  6. Jay says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 1:01 am

    If they remain jobless, why keep them hanging around? Send them back.

  7. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 2:46 am

    Remember, the goal of these immigrants is an easier life. Working long hours for an infidel is not what drew them to Sweden. Exceptional welfare benefits is the reason they came and as long as that lure remains the type of person attracted by it is not likely to change either.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 2:00 pm

      right on.

      that and promises of white women and general conquest.

      just like in mohammads days and any other time muslims have been persuaded to invade dar al harb.

  8. dan christensen says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 3:39 am

    According to official Danish statistics The employment rate in 2016 of Syrians in Scandinavia was:
    Denmark 14% – Sweden 31% – Norway 28%
    The rates for ethnic scandinavians were around 60%.
    Again you must remember that “doctoring” can and probably was used to please the people in power.

    With the high birth rates among muslims, these numbers can only spell disaster for Scandinavia. Goodbye christianity, democracy, ancient cultures, welfare system and peace on earth.

    • Chanah says

      Aug 19, 2018 at 5:05 am

      Unemployment rates are probably even worse, especially for the male 18-25 cohort. Remember that very few Muslim immigrant women work. Also, stats do not distinguish groups on the basis of ethnicity. So “immigrant” would also include Western immigrants who have an education and better job qualifications. Skewing!

  9. Snaphanen, Denmark says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 6:10 am

    Only a little more than half of foreigners in Sweden are muslim, so this headline is misleading “Muslim migrant joblessness at nearly 20%, government calls for even more Muslim migrants”

  10. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 9:14 am

    The Swedes already pay a tax rate that amounts to virtual Jizya. Their taxes are paying for the upkeep of the “migrants.” My guess is that the Swedish government will raise taxes some more on the hard working Swedes. That will amount to virtual slavery, with their new masters being the “migrants.”

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 6:02 pm

      Sweden must be approaching war time emergency levels of taxation. Since paying for skiving Muslims is not patriotic tax avoidance will go through the roof. To pay the enormous welfare bill the Swedish Government will have to borrow and create inflation.

  11. Rolf Wittwer says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 10:08 am

    Europe is flooded by Muslims and Drugs.
    It seems, that Swedens so called “responsible people” use both.
    There can not be any other explanation.

  12. James Lincoln says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 11:40 am

    I have an idea for the Swedish government:

    Suppose they announced that all welfare benefits will ceased in 90 days, except for Swedish citizens who are currently paying or who have already paid into the system. In other words, all “economic” noncitizen migrants would be cut off after 90 days.

    What would happen? Would the migrants leave? Or would there be even more violence in the streets of Sweden?

    • A_M_Swallow says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 6:05 pm

      Separate pensions from welfare then cancel all welfare after 90 days. Otherwise the Muslims will physically assault and kidnap the welfare clerks to get money.

  13. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    Like most government programs, the more Swedens immigration program fails, the more money will be thrown at it because the State can never be wrong.

  14. Richard Courtemanche says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    With idiots at the helm, almost time for a military takeover.

  15. infidel says

    Aug 19, 2018 at 4:33 am

    Another Islamic TRUISM from the annals of the infidel

    \Muslims are a HUGE liability for any non Muslim society foolish enough to have them in big numbers.. HIGH MAINTENANCE and LOW PRODUCTIVITY are Islam and Muslims thy name!!

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