Sweden has not experienced racially or ethnically motivated attacks on foreigners, who are about 10 percent of Sweden's 8.8 million residents.
Sweden has historically been very generous toward refugees and asylum seekers, with a definition of refugee broader than that of the 1951 UN Convention.
To signal the government's tougher stance, in 1996 Sweden's Social Democratic government deported the Sincari family--two Kurdish women and nine of their children--because the husbands of the two women had lied about their identity when they arrived in Sweden in 1990, saying they were from Iraq.
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