據報道，當地時間9月12日，瑞典新上任的移民部長約翰·福塞爾稱，該國將向移民支付高達35萬瑞典克朗（約合人民幣24萬元）的回國補助。
瑞典政府官網11日發表的一份聲明稱，該國首相克裏斯特鬆10日對內閣成員職位進行了調整，前外貿大臣兼國際發展合作大臣福塞爾成為新移民部長。福塞爾稱，這一補助計劃將是該國“拐點型”移民政策的一部分。
約翰·福塞爾
福塞爾在媒體會上宣布，從2026年起，自願離開瑞典的移民最高將獲得35萬瑞典克朗。據了解，這個坐落於斯堪的納維亞半島的北歐國家目前向自願離開的移民提供的補助額度為：成人最高為1萬瑞典克朗、兒童最高為5000瑞典克朗，每戶家庭最高可獲得4萬瑞典克朗。
極右翼政黨瑞典民主黨成員盧德維格·阿斯普林解釋稱，這項補助措施自1984年就有了，但補助金額較小且知道的人也不多，所以通過這項措施獲得補助的人也很少。按照福塞爾的說法，去年該國隻有一個人接受了這項補助（離開瑞典）。“如果有更多人知道這項補助措施，可能就有更多移民選擇拿錢離開。”阿斯普林稱，那些失業者或者主要依靠政府救濟生活的移民可能對這項措施感興趣。
瑞典卡爾斯塔德大學跨文化研究高級講師托拜厄斯·胡比內特曾介紹，近一百年來，瑞典都是一個移民國家。自2011年歐洲難民危機以來，包括瑞典在內的北歐多國就接受了大量來自中東、西亞和非洲地區的難民。2015年，時任瑞典外交大臣的瑪戈特·瓦爾斯特倫宣布瑞典為“人道主義超級大國”，並向超過16萬尋求庇護的人開放邊境。
▲2015年，在瑞典政府機構外等待安排的難民
外來移民的增多，也讓瑞典的暴力犯罪案件增加。2015年底，瑞典政府開始縮緊移民政策。2022年9月的瑞典議會選舉中，堅定反移民的瑞典民主黨一躍成為議會第二大黨。此後，瑞典便進一步收緊移民政策。今年8月，有報道稱，時任移民部長瑪麗亞·馬爾默·斯特納加德宣布該國50年來首次出現“出境人數超過入境人數”的情況。
事實上，除了瑞典，挪威、丹麥、法國和德國也在向自願離開的移民提供補貼金。2009年有報道稱，丹麥從1997年便提出了這一補貼方案，到2009年時補貼金額已經漲至約每人12000英鎊（約合人民幣11.2萬元），這一數字是1997年初始補貼金額的10倍；丹麥現在最多可向自願離境的移民提供約15萬元人民幣的補貼金。挪威提供的補貼金額約1400美元（約合人民幣9932元）、法國提供的補貼金約2800美元（約合人民幣19864元）、德國提供的補貼金約2000美元（約合人民幣14188元）。
Sweden rape: Most convicted attackers foreign-born, says TV
Reporting of rape is far higher in Sweden than in most other countries (file pic)About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish national TV.
Public broadcaster SVT said it had counted all court convictions to present a complete picture in Sweden.
But Sweden had thousands more reported rapes, and there is no ethnic breakdown for those.
Immigration and crime are major issues in Sweden's general election campaign. The vote is on 9 September.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats hope to make significant ground, although they have slipped to third place in the latest opinion poll.
The Mission Investigation programme, due to be broadcast on Wednesday by SVT, said the total number of offenders over five years was 843. Of those, 197 were from the Middle East and North Africa, with 45 coming from Afghanistan.
"We are very clear in the programme that it is a small percentage of the people coming from abroad who are convicted of rape," chief editor Ulf Johansson told the BBC.
He pointed out that the number of reported rapes in Sweden was far higher, so no conclusions could be drawn on the role of immigrants in sexual attacks.
When Sweden took in its highest number of asylum seekers in 2015, the number of reported rapes declined by 12%. At the height of the migration crisis, some 160,000 migrants arrived there - more per capita than any other EU country.
The steep rise in migration also raised questions about Sweden's ability to integrate immigrants. The centre-left Social Democrat-led government soon introduced restrictions and the number of arrivals fell dramatically.
The SVT programme revealed that in cases where the victim did not know the attacker, the proportion of foreign-born offenders was more than 80%.
A former police officer born in Afghanistan told the programme that some young Afghans who had come to Sweden in recent years had views that differed significantly from Sweden's idea of sexual equality.
Responding to the report on Wednesday, key figures in both the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) and the centre-right Moderates said foreigners convicted of rape should be deported.
The latest opinion poll on Wednesday suggests the populist party's support has dipped in recent weeks to just over 19% in the polls, but it is still on course for its best performance yet. The Social Democrats are leading the polls while the Moderates are just ahead of the anti-immigration SD.
When asked why SVT had decided to produce a potentially inflammatory programme ahead of the election, Ulf Johansson stressed that every political party was tackling issues around immigration and it was important to give Swedes a better insight into their society.
"I don't think this will have an effect on the election," he said. "There has been a lot of debate already about this and it's just more facts in an existing debate."
In May, Sweden changed its laws, to make sex without consent rape. Until then prosecutors had to prove that violence had been used or the victim had been exploited in a vulnerable condition.
