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But what happens to refugees when they reach their safe havens? For most, the struggle only takes on a new form, even in peaceful Scandinavia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo ease the burden of starting over, volunteer groups like Stockholm\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.refugeeswelcomestockholm.se\/\u0022\u003ERefugees Welcome Stockholm\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;work to acclimate refugees to their unfamiliar new surroundings. Here are the stories of some of those Scandinavian refugees and \u003Ca href=\u0022\/node\/65775\u0022\u003Ethe volunteers whom many now call friends\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n                    \u003C\/div\u003E\n      \u003C\/div\u003E\n      \u003Cdiv class = \u0022align-sticky\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n      \u003Cdiv class =\u0022gallery-wrapper\u0022\u003E\n        \u003Cscript\u003E\n          var gallery_65776_json = {\u0022images\u0022:[{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-10-Angelica-Soderberg.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-10-Angelica-Soderberg.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-10-Angelica-Soderberg.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003ECompassion at First Sight\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EWeb editor Angelica S\\u00f6derberg, 42, remembers when she first saw refugees arriving in her homeland.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI found myself standing in the middle of the Central Station in Stockholm crying when witnessing the result of war beginning to reach Sweden,\\u201d Soderberg writes in an email to TakePart. \\u201cAll those humans who were forced to go by boat across the Mediterranean and walk through a Europe that didn\u0027t want them.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of Stockholm\\u2019s refugees arrived in Sweden via what\\u2019s been called \\u201cthe Balkan Route,\\u201d sailing from Turkey to Greece and traveling to Western Europe through the Balkans.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI often think of two children\\u2014sisters\\u2014who fled Syria and were traveling in a rubber boat that sank in the Mediterranean. Their mother could not swim, but they could and saved her from drowning,\\u201d Soderberg wrote. \\u201cThey are like little miracles, both of them. And I get to meet them! It\\u2019s truly a gift.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003ESoderberg serves as Refugees Welcome Stockholm\u0027s communications manager while maintaining a full-time job as a journalist and web editor.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201c[Refugees] are not a burden. They are not numbers or costs,\\u201d she wrote. \\u201cThey are human\\u2014with hopes and dreams and values that we all need to recognize. And they have the right to be here.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-1-Najma-Mohamed.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-1-Najma-Mohamed.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-1-Najma-Mohamed.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003EFor the Long Haul\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003ESocial worker Najma Mohamed, 26, cofounded Refugees Welcome Stockholm in October 2015, knowing long-term integration would be needed after emergency relief.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI met a woman in [Stockholm] Central Station holding on to a doll, crying and screaming, because she thinks it\\u2019s her daughter that died in Germany,\\u201d said Mohamed. \\u201cThat\\u2019s a reality check.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EThat refugee was one of hundreds who arrived daily at Stockholm Central Station in September 2015, the final destination for many asylum seekers. Organizing via social media, everyday Swedes flooded the station to welcome trainloads of weary refugees with food, water, clothes, and medical care.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cIt was a hard time having all these people running around with no structure,\\u201d said Mohamed, whose family emigrated to Sweden from Saudi Arabia when she was three. \\u201cSo I just jumped in and started giving people directions.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EToday, the all-volunteer group offers refugees free Swedish classes, legal advice, cultural exchanges, and children\\u2019s activities.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-2-Malik-Khan.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-2-Malik-Khan.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-2-Malik-Khan.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003EEscaping the Islamic State\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the Islamic State began rounding up Mosul, Iraq\\u2019s physicists and chemists, Malik Khan\\u2019s father urged his son, a physics teacher, to plot an escape.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cMy father told me he\\u2019d rather see me dead than work for those killers,\\u201d the 30-year-old from Mosul said. Khan spoke to TakePart using a pseudonym as a safety precaution.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter one botched escape attempt, Khan hired a smuggler to take him to Turkey, from where he would try to make it to an aunt in Norway.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cSometimes we were in the sand, sometimes in the streets, sometimes between houses,\\u201d said Khan, who arrived in Norway after a harrowing 25-day journey via foot, car, boat, bus, and train. \\u201cI felt like James Bond.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003ELike many refugees, Khan is frustrated by those who see him as an opportunist.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cIf I could find a safe place in my country, I wouldn\\u2019t put myself in this situation. I had money. I had a car. I had a house,\\u201d he said. \\u201cWhy did I leave all of that? To be funny? I put myself in this dangerous situation for nothing\\u2014just because I want to go to Europe? Of course no.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-3-San-Azad-with-friend.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-3-San-Azad-with-friend.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-3-San-Azad-with-friend.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFleeing Homophobia\u003C\\\/strong\u003E\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003ESan Azad, 27, fled Iraqi Kurdistan after receiving a terrifying piece of hate mail.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI\\u2019m here because I\\u2019m gay,\\u201d Azad said. \\u201cI got a letter. There were so many bad things in the letter. They said they will kill me step by step.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the anonymous threats Azad received in Iraq were those from family. Azad spoke to TakePart using a pseudonym and is pictured at left with his face obscured as a safety precaution.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201c[My father] said you are never my son,\\u201d he said. \\u201c[He said] if you come back I\\u2019m going to kill you by my hands\\u2014your uncle by your mom\\u2019s side and my side. We have decided to kill you.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter a euphoric first few days in gay-friendly Stockholm, the stressful reality of an uncertain future set in.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cIf the immigration board decides to send me back, that means they decide on my death,\\u201d said Azad, who, after a year, is still waiting for his meeting with the immigration board. \\u201cIf I go back to my country, I\\u2019ll be killed.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-4-Hadani-Yousef.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-4-Hadani-Yousef.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-4-Hadani-Yousef.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIn the Path of Bombs\u003C\\\/strong\u003E\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EHadani Yousef, 45, knew she had to get her family out of Zabadani, Syria, when the bombs kept falling.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cMy house was hit by a tank three times and a plane two times,\\u201d said Yousef, who was a teacher in Syria. \\u201cWhen the bomb came, I was with my girls in my house.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EIn May, Yousef received a diploma (pictured) for completing Refugees Welcome Stockholm\\u2019s volunteer-taught Swedish 1 course. At Refugees Welcome Stockholm events, Hadani seeks free legal counseling, as her husband was fingerprinted as a refugee in Bulgaria, barring him from joining his family in Sweden.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Dublin Regulation, an EU law that states asylum seekers are tethered to asylum in the first nation in which they\\u2019re fingerprinted, can separate family members who fled home at different times.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cWhen I meet with lawyers here, I ask about [my husband],\\u201d she said. \\u201cHe is in Bulgaria. This is a big problem.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-5-Foad-Amini.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-5-Foad-Amini.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-5-Foad-Amini.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003EGenerations of Flight\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EIn many ways, Foad Amini, 24, has never known the comforts of a homeland.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI was born a refugee. My parents were refugees,\\u201d said Amini, who was born to Iranian parents in northern Iraq. \\u201cMy mother tried to organize women to have rights. If my mom goes back to Iran, she goes to prison for 15 years.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EAmini\\u2019s parents have refugee status in Germany, but in early 2016, he decided to leave Germany for Norway to be with his brother, who is settled in Trondheim, 300 miles north of Oslo.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cAll my life I was a refugee, and I couldn\\u2019t study anything. First thing after getting asylum, I want to study something,\\u201d Amini said. \\u201cI don\\u2019t want to be a refugee anymore. I want to just stay somewhere and live normally.\\\u0022\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-6-Mohammed-Saleem-Mustafa.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-6-Mohammed-Saleem-Mustafa.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-6-Mohammed-Saleem-Mustafa.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003EThe Early Bird\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EMuhammed Hamdan, 31, survived an attack in Mosul, Iraq, but life since has meant one struggle after another. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cEverything in my life is so bad,\\u201d said Hamdan, who lost his legs in a market explosion in 2004. \\u201cI want no more war in Iraq.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EOne Swedish volunteer for Refugees Welcome Stockholm said Hamdan is always the first to arrive on event days.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cSweden is a saving country. I thank Sweden for allowing all us [here],\\u201d said Hamdan, whose wife and boys are in Turkey. \\u201cMy [Swedish] teacher is so good, and the lawyers here help me. I love everyone here.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-7-Zain-Albush.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-7-Zain-Albush.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-7-Zain-Albush.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Chatty Dentist\u003C\\\/strong\u003E\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EZain Albush, 26, is a native of Raqqa, Syria, who hopes to rebuild his dentistry practice in Sweden someday. Until then, he passes the time getting to know Swedes.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI like to talk,\\u201d Albush, who studied dentistry at Aleppo University, said, laughing. \\u201cI just want to talk. [Refugees Welcome Stockholm\\u2019s Swedish language exchange] helps me connect with Swedish people.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EThousands of refugees like Albush are eager to work and study but are prevented from doing so without a resident\\u2019s permit.\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI want my [Syrian] certification translated to Swedish,\\u201d he said. \\u201cIt\\u2019s possible, but it will take a lot of time. I need to prepare like 40 documents.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u0022,\u0022alt\u0022:\u0022\u0022,\u0022credit\u0022:\u0022Matt Alesevich\u0022},{\u0022image\u0022:{\u0022tablet\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_tablet\\\/public\\\/slide-9-Gabriel-Mezquida.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:980,\u0022height\u0022:654},\u0022mobile\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/styles\\\/large_responsive_mobile\\\/public\\\/slide-9-Gabriel-Mezquida.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:768,\u0022height\u0022:512},\u0022desktop\u0022:{\u0022url\u0022:\u0022http:\\\/\\\/www.takepart.com\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/slide-9-Gabriel-Mezquida.jpg\u0022,\u0022width\u0022:1600,\u0022height\u0022:1067}},\u0022caption\u0022:\u0022\u003Ch2\u003EThe Humanity Crisis\u003C\\\/h2\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u0027s a particular bit of vocabulary that Gabriel Mezquida, 42, would like to clear up.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003E\\u201cI want to emphasize that there does not exist any refugee crisis,\\u201d the Refugees Welcome Stockholm volunteer wrote in an email to TakePart. \\u201cWhat there is, is a huge humanity crisis.\\u201d\u003C\\\/p\u003E\\r\\n\u003Cp\u003EMezquida was a regular at Stockholm Central Station in the fall of 2015, volunteering to use his car to personally transport refugees. 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