Roma Camps Adding to Sweden’s Immigration Misery

Daily Mail
January 5, 2014

A Roma caravan site in Hogdalen near Stockholm, Sweden, that is home to six caravans and numerous other shacks, pictured
A Roma caravan site in Hogdalen near Stockholm, Sweden, that is home to six caravans.

These stark pictures show a Romanian caravan park located just outside the city of Hogdalen, Stockholm.

There are around 30 similar settlements in the area where shacks, dilapidated caravans and tents serve as people’s temporary homes.

There are approximately six mobile homes and several more primitive homemade shacks in the make-shift town.

This picture shows one of the scores of temporary 'shacks' erected in the caravan park and the rubbish left around it
This picture shows one of the scores of temporary ‘shacks’ erected in the caravan park and the rubbish left around it.

None of the homes have running water, electricity or cooking facilities.

Romanian Viorica Vaduva, 42, who is four months pregnant, lives in the shanty town. She previously work as a maid in Spain before the financial crisis  – but now survives through begging on the streets of Stockholm.

She says moving to the country was a last resort. She added: ‘At home there are no jobs, we have no other options’.

Viorica Vaduva, pictured sitting in the bedroom of her temporary home, is the sole provider for her family back in Romania
Viorica Vaduva, pictured sitting in the bedroom of her temporary home, is the sole provider for her family back in Romania.

The mother is the sole means of support for her parents and her 8-year-old daughter, all of whom live in Romania.

She said: ‘Everyone who lives here begging. Some of the men have construction jobs during the summer’.

‘We usually go into the city at eight thirty. I have no fixed place but sit in different places in the city’.

The mother uses an oil drum to burn a fire – which she both cooks on and uses to heat her caravan.

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