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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Around 1,500 asylum seekers are to be deported from Sweden this month, many of them to the Kurdistan Region, after their applications were rejected by the Swedish migration office.The first round of deportations will start in the Restard Gård near the southern city of Gothenburg, where some 2,000 refugees have been placed, mostly since 2015 when a massive migration set off through Turkey to the European Union.Kurdish activist Rebwar Rahim who has campaigned against the planned deportations said that many of the refugees are families with underage children who often have nothing to return to in their home countries.“We have collected a group of volunteers, lawyers and activists, and will be present at the camp to show solidarity,” Rahim told Rudaw.The Swedish social democratic coalition government reviewed an earlier decision regarding the number of refugees it could provide asylum to during 2016 and reduced it to nearly half of the 163,000 it had initially announced.The new wave of migration has almost polarized the Swedish society with virtually one in two voters supporting the deportations, according to a Gallop survey conducted in April.Many of the refugees are reluctant to leave the camps despite being informed by the authorities and some have said that they would seek asylum in the neighboring countries if the pressure continues.“We are not willing to leave since we have suffered a great deal to reach here,” said Parinaz Ahmadi, a Kurdish migrant at the Restard Gård.“Many of the refugees here are from Kurdistan but the majority are Arab and Afghan asylum seekers who have really nothing to go back to,” Ahmadi said.According to the so-called LMA law, which came to force on June 1, the rejected asylum applicants will be deprived of their daily payments, 71 krona a day (about $9).But if the rejected asylum applicants volunteer to return to their home countries, they will be provided the so-called re-establishment support which amounts to 30,000 krona ($3,800) for each person over 18 years and 15,000 ($1,900) for children under 18, but not more than 75,000 ($9,200) per family.Authorities have said the asylum seekers from the Kurdistan Region will be deported directly to Erbil airport.“I’ve spent much more to arrive here and would really rather die than be forced to leave,” said Zahir Jamal, 27, from the Kurdistan Region.“Some of us have relatives in other cities who we can go to if forced to leave, but I have no one, so it’s better to stay here,” he said.According to the Swedish interior ministry over 163,000 people sought asylum in Sweden in 2015, of which some 80,000 will be deported by the end of this year.