The rubbish-strewn caravan sites that have become the blight of Sweden as temporary Romanian camps sprang up after migration restrictions were eased

Caravan park with six mobile homes and scores of temporary shacks located in Hogdalen, Stockholm

Make-shift town one of 30 similar settlements in the area, all home to migrants

'There are no jobs, we have no other options', one resident Viorica Vaduca, 42, says




These stark pictures show a Romanian caravan park located just outside the city of Hogdalen, Stockholm.

There are around 30 similar settlements in the area where shacks, dilapidated caravans and tents serve as people's temporary homes.

There are approximately six mobile homes and several more primitive homemade shacks in th e make-shift town.

A Romanian caravan site in Hogdalen near Stockholm, Sweden, that is home to six caravans and numerous other shacks, pictured

One of six caravans in the temporary site. None of those who live in the make-shift homes have electricity, heating or running water

A resident walks through some of the caravans in the site as night falls. There are 30 similar sites to this in the Hogdalen area

None of the homes have running water, electricity or cooking facilities.



Romanian Viorica Vaduva, 42, who is four months pregnant, lives in the shanty town.

She previously work as a maid in Spain before the financial crisis - but now survives through begging on the streets of Stockholm.



S he says moving to the country was a last resort. She added: 'At home there are no jobs, we have no other options'.

A wide shot shows the caravans, cars and temporary shack in the wooded area of land near to the Swedish capital

Washing can be seen hanging from a make-shift washing line and strewn on the floor in the centre of the site

It is thought the increase in the number of such towns in the area is down to a recent relaxing of migrant laws

This picture shows one of the scores of temporary 'shacks' erected in the caravan park and the rubbish left around it

The mother is the sole means of support for her parents and her 8-year-old daughter, all of whom live in Romania.



She said: 'Everyone who lives here begging. Some of the men have construction jobs during the summer'.

'We usually go into the city at eight thirty. I have no fixed place but sit in different places in the city'.

The mother uses an oil drum to burn a fire - which she both cooks on and uses to heat her caravan.

42-year old Romanian Viorica Vaduva stands in the door to her caravan. She used to work as a maid in Spain before the country's financial crisis

The mother-of-one, who is also four months pregnant, leans against a wood pallet that is being worked on by another resident

She says it is often it is impossible to start a fire due to damp wood.

All EU citizens have the right to reside freely in another EU country for three months.

But the camps are often built on private land where the owner can enforce eviction.

The mother - who says she is forced to beg on the streets as there are no jobs - stands with a group of other residents

Viorica Vaduva, pictured sitting in the bedroom of her temporary home, is the sole provider for her family back in Romania

The result sees groups of people who are legally residing in the country move from one illegal settlement to another.

In mid-December last year authorities closed one such tent camp, which was home to around 50 people.

Campaigner Bienvenido Flores comments: "It is a very strange situation. On one hand police run these people out but on the other hand they are in great need of help.

Lat December, Swedish authorities closed a similar site that housed 50 people. Many of these sites are on private land and are therefore illegal

Although those living in the sites are in the country legally, as they are living on private land they are often moved on by police



