Carl Eos wrote that Fredrik Lindström had referred to Swedish emigrants to the USA as refugees on På spåret the day before and asserted that the designation was incorrect. Eos referred to a definition of refugees as persons outside their country of citizenship due to well-founded fear of persecution, who cannot or will not seek the protection of that country. According to Eos, one did not become a refugee merely by leaving one's country. He described Swedish emigrants, such as those in Vilhelm Moberg's books, as emigrants and wrote that they primarily left Sweden for economic reasons. He added that it might be possible to argue that certain Christians in other European countries had fled religious persecution. Eos believed that it was politically motivated to call Moberg's emigrants refugees and described it as an attempt to rewrite history for political reasons. He called the reasoning "purely Orwellian." #flyktingar #utvandrare #historie (translated)
