Moroccans in Sweden

[3] As of 2016, 429 Moroccan citizens (361 men, 68 women) residing in Sweden are registered as asylum seekers.

[4] Among these individuals are 144 Moroccan children out of a total 2,199 unaccompanied refugee minors residing in Sweden.

[7] In May 2017 border police reported that false identities were common among Moroccan asylum seekers.

[8] Of the estimated 800 street children in Sweden, Morocco is the most prevalent country of origin.

[9] While Morocco earlier refused to receive the youth, in 2016 the governments of Sweden and Morocco signed a treaty to facilitate their repatriation by using the Moroccan fingerprint register to aid the Swedish Migration Agency in identifying them.