The aim of this study has been to reach an understanding of how refugee children, who live in refugee quarters, experience their situation, in relation to their daily life and school attendance. Further my intention has been to investigate if the refugee children are segregated and/or excluded in the Swedish society, and if so in what kind of way.     In order to investigate these questions, a qualitative method consisting of five interviews was conducted in a refugee quarter. The study included two boys, aged eight and thirteen, and three girls, aged ten and twelve.   The results showed that the children in the study had experienced both positive and negative aspects of their situation at the refugee quarter. Among the positive aspects were the friends the children made and the time they spent together, playing in the refugee quarters. The children also expressed negative experiences. They were disappointed in their schooling arrangements; the children attend a preparation class. Their needs are not being met and they show a desire to study in a regular Swedish class. The study also showed that the refugee quarters and the children are segregated and excluded in several ways in the Swedish society. The refugees are strictly bound to the refugee quarters area and do not participate in the rest of the Swedish society, which means that the children are not given the opportunity to interact with Swedish children.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att belysa och analysera de breda effekterna av flykting- förläggningen i Svappavaara under dess verksamma tid 1987–1995. Däribland hur den togs emot i lokalsamhället, men även dess roll för upprätthållandet av arbetstillfällen, bostäder och samhällsfunktioner i och med den ekonomiska nedgång som drabbade Svappavaara med gruvkrisen, och föranledde till behovet av alternativa näringar såsom flyktingförläggningen. Undersökningen utgår från de teoretiska begreppen ekonomiska upp- och nedgångar samt platsanknytning, vilka används som analytiska redskap genom denna historiska fallstudie med vissa inslag av rumslig metod. Undersökningens slutsatser pekar på flyktingförläggningen som en stor bidragande faktor till att Svappavaara kunde behålla arbetstillfällen, befolkning, bostäder och samhällsfunktioner när krisen slog till. Lokalsamhället tog varmt emot flykting- förläggningen och flyktingarna som integrerades väl i samhället och bidrog med liv och rörelse i bygden, till minskad arbetslöshet, till att mängder av bostäder inte längre behövde rivas, och slutligen till att Svappavaara överlevde krisen. / This study aims to highlight and analyze the multifaceted effects of the refugee facility in Svappavaara during its operative time between 1987 and 1995. It illustrates how the local community received the refugee facility and its role in the maintenance of jobs, housing, and municipal services with the economic downturn that hit Svappavaara as part of the mining crisis, which led to the need for alternative industries such as the refugee facility. The study is based on the theoretical concepts of booms and busts, and place attachment, which are used as analytical tools throughout this historical case study including some elements of spatial method. The study's conclusions point to the refugee facility as a major contributing factor to Svappavaara being able to maintain jobs, population, housing, and community functions when the crisis hit. The local community warmly welcomed the refugee facility and the refugees who integrated well into the community and contributed to the activity in the area, to reduced unemployment, the fact that many homes no longer needed to be demolished, and finally to Svappavaara surviving the crisis.