Refugees: Welcome to Sweden, You'll Get a Job in a Decade
- Only 53 percent of refugees found a job after 10 years
- Government says will need to speed up getting people jobs
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Social media star Mahmoud Bitar amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on Facebook in his flight from Syria to Sweden. Now, he posts videos joking about life as a refugee near the town of Oerebro.
Bitar is getting many offers to work as an actor, but can only “eat and sleep” as he waits for a residence permit. “It’s not as easy to live in Sweden as you may dream of,” said Bitar, who worked in a hotel in Aleppo before fleeing in a trek that took him through the Middle East, Turkey and Greece on his way to Scandinavia.