{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/77ca3392-3d6f-434f-8821-6472a6c25d8d/69e748241e5fb1ae4644db77?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"'Sweden is no longer good at protecting the interests of its international residents'","description":"<p>Many people might think that someone working on a PhD funded by the Swedish state at a Swedish university would get an easy ride from migration authorities.</p><p>That hasn’t been the case for Fahima Ayub Khan, a linguistics and cognitive science researcher studying for a PhD at the University of Gothenburg.</p><p>She was denied a permit renewal and issued a deportation order just as she entered the final stretch of her doctoral studies.</p><p>In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, she tells The Local's Mandy Pipher about how her battle with Swedish bureaucracy has affected her life.</p><p><strong>READ ALSO:</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.thelocal.se/20260409/we-are-not-bonded-labourers-university-researcher-fights-swedish-deportation-order?tpcc=podcast-article\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>'We are not bonded labourers': University researcher fights Swedish deportation order</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"The Local"}