According to the government, there are around 35,000 Syrians with residence permits in Sweden today. There are also a large number who have become Swedish citizens. How many of them who may want to return if the situation in their home country stabilizes is unknown.
There is a great deal of uncertainty and since it is a changing development, we feel that we want to get a better picture of what needs exist if a larger return were to become relevant, says Forssell.
The Migration Agency is to inventory support mechanisms and organizations available to contribute in such a situation. The government is prepared to contribute in various ways, according to Forssell.
It's everything from booking flight tickets to ensuring that one gets a better start in one's home country, that one is reintegrated. It can be education, efforts to get into employment, temporary accommodation, he says.
After dictator Bashar al-Assad's fall, Syrians around the world have begun returning to their home country. However, the Swedish government advises against all travel to Syria at present. The Migration Agency has paused all asylum cases and no one is being deported to Syria at the moment.
