There are roughly 200,000 Africans and people of African
descent living in Sweden, who make up 2% of the country’s 9.6 million
population.
There has been a 31% rise in reported “Afrophobic” hate
crimes from 2010 to 2014, according to the Swedish National Council for CrimePrevention (pdf). The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent
reported “a real fear within the communities, especially for young black men,
that they could be violently attacked at any time.” Structural racism means
that black people in Sweden have reduced access to health care and education,
according to the UN report, while “the police view people of African descent as
criminals rather than a vulnerable community that needs protection.”
A xenophobic political party, the Swedish Democrats, won
almost 13% of the national vote in 2014 and became the third-largest party.
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