>On Sept. 9, 2018, the far-right Sweden Democrats party won almost 18 percent of the votes and other far-right parties made a dent too.
> With the Sweden Democrats’ gains, many immigrants in Sweden fear their status will be revoked, that they will be sent back to war zones.
>“Immigrants are afraid,” Abdallah explained, but because of negative connotations attached to Islam in Sweden, “they don’t want to be seen as religious.”
>“I have lived in Malmö all my life,” she said, but lately, “I don’t know where I belong.”
>Youssef, a 24-year-old refugee who is gay from Aleppo, Syria, arrived in Sweden in July 2015.
>One day, Youssef was walking home with his boyfriend, Mohammed, when he was caught off guard.
>The two were holding hands in Eriklust, a predominantly white neighborhood in Malmö, when a black car approached, a window rolled down and a man shouted: “It’s not enough you’re a refugee, you have to be gay, too!”
>“We didn’t know how to react,” said Youssef. “We were just surprised.”
>Youssef said he initially considered Sweden as one of the better countries to be a refugee, with racism barely palpable in 2015.
>“But lately, it feels like it’s growing," he said. "‘Refugee’ is a bad word.”
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