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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.
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.
She was denied a permit renewal and issued a deportation order just as she entered the final stretch of her doctoral studies.
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.
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