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Magdalena Nour can divide Mine’s clients – foreign-born academics – into four main categories when it comes to their reasons for ending up in Sweden.

“We call them the followers, the students, the refugees and the love refugees.

• The followers – partners of specialists who are recruited to smaller and larger companies in the region and who are also often highly educated.
• The students – those who arrive in the Öresund region to study in English at universities in Malmö, Lund or Copenhagen, and who then want to stay.
• The refugees – people with refugee status and therefore permission to stay in Sweden for three years, which can turn permanent.
• Love refugees – Swedes’ and often Danes’ foreign partners cannot settle in Denmark according to that country’s rules, but they can settle in Sweden.

“And when they do, they become Öresund commuters because love knows no borders at all,” says Magdalena Nour.