"I do a video a day when I'm on my dog walk in Lund, and I try to find different topics to talk about. My son pointed out to me a video from national broadcaster SVT about a guy named Shahdad who came here from Iran when he was 14. Now he's 25 and he was about to be deported, even though his mum has a permanent residency and he had a job, so I did a video on him, because I didn't agree with that."
"It was a very popular video, but aside from that maybe 100 other people wrote to me who were in the same situation as Shahdad. So then I thought, 'well, this is a rather big issue'. When he then mentioned the video to his publisher over dinner, someone at the same table said they too had a friend who had been deported and before he knew it, his publisher had commissioned him to write a book."
"When I started work on the book in June, there were no discussions sporadic news about people being deported, but not much more than that. And then I think, from December, just before Christmas, the discussion started growing, and now it's very big: every day, there's not just one article about someone getting deported, but there are also op-eds in mos"
Fredrik Kopsch, chief economist at Swedish think tank Timbro, is publishing a book titled Utvisad that calls for amnesty for integrated foreign residents facing deportation. The project originated from a TikTok video Kopsch created during a dog walk about Shahdad, a 25-year-old Iranian who arrived at age 14 and faced deportation despite having employment and a mother with permanent residency. The video went viral with 176,000 views, prompting hundreds of similar cases to contact Kopsch. His publisher commissioned the book after learning about the issue at dinner. The release timing coincides with intensified Swedish media coverage of teen deportations, putting pressure on Migration Minister Johan Forssell to address the problem.
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