The Trauma of Facing Deportation

In Sweden, hundreds of refugee children have fallen unconscious after being informed that their families will be expelled from the country.
Georgi, a Russian refugee who came to Sweden with his family when he was five years old, could talk at length about the virtues of the Volvo. His doctor described him as “the most ‘Swedeified’ in his family.” He was also one of the most popular boys in his class. For his thirteenth birthday, two friends listed some of the qualities that he evoked: energetic, fun, happy all the time, good human being, amazingly kind, awesome at soccer, sly.

Reference: 
Rachel Aviv | 2017
In: The New Yorker, ISSN 0028-792X | [93] | April
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/the-trauma-of-facing-deportation
April 3, 2017