Among the consequences have been that unemployment among foreigners has become more than twice as high as among native Swedes. Moreover, “after 10 years in Sweden, only half of asylum seekers have a job.”39 Immigrants, who are now 16 percent of Sweden’s small population, have become 51 percent of the long-term unemployed and 57 percent of the recipients of welfare payments.40 In Norway, the cost of supporting a single refugee in the manner prescribed by the country’s many welfare state provisions has been calculated as
