Unknown frontier

High Cahaparral

Sweden's wild west response to Syrian refugee crisis

As the Syrian crisis continues to rage on in the Middle East, there have been a lot of stories in the news about refugees looking for a home. In the United States, it’s a topic surrounded by controversy. But, in Sweden—where asylum has been granted to 163,000 refugees—the issues are primarily logistical ones. Quite simply: where will they house all of them? Well, for 500 such people looking for refuge, that place just happens to be a Wild West theme park named High Chaparral.