I may be utterly wrong, but I understand from Swedish friends (I lived in Stockholm for a year, something more than ten years ago) that the problem is fairly re

I may be utterly wrong, but I understand from Swedish friends (I lived in Stockholm for a year, something more than ten years ago) that the problem is fairly recent, and comes from Government deciding to take in large numbers of refugees from middle east (Iraq, Kurds, etc). The Government did the right thing, in terms of sharing the burden, plenty of locals don't like it at all, and in practical terms they make some good arguments.