The Trauma of Facing Deportation

Uppgivenhetssyndrom, or resignation syndrome, is said to exist only in Sweden, and only among refugees. The patients seem to have lost the will to live. “They are like Snow White,” a doctor said. “They just fall away from the world.”Photograph by Magnus Wennman for The New Yorker

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country. more.....

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