Go-Far: Sweden (2014)

Ee Ming was part of a selected team of students sent to Sweden, Stockholm as part of an advanced journalism reporting course. The team produced a 68-page book ‘Stockholm Smörgåsbord’. Her photo-essay on single mothers and shift workers needing overnight childcare services was selected to be published in The Straits Times Saturday Special Report.

She also helped to documented the integration efforts by an Assyrian football club amid rising anti-immigrant sentiments and attended the Nobel Prize Award ceremony.

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The Captain

This is a story of integration through the eyes of immigrant David Durmaz, an Assyrian who was born in Sweden. David is the captain of Assyriska Föreningen Football Club - a club based in the city of Södertälje. As Sweden becomes increasingly anti-immigrant, David says he carries the burden of being a role model to fellow Assyrians.

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