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Axel Öberg

Saker Hossein Nabavi and his wife Sakine and baby came from Afghanistan where Saker used to be the coach for the Afghani boxing team. He now holds boxing classes in the gym a couple of times a week.

Ten-year-old Marwan Ayab from Damascus, Syria, plays in the snow.

Roya Hosseini, 14, fled with her family to Sweden. Most of the refugees hope to make it to Europe and have their families immigrate afterward.

Hamza Flayyih from Baghdad used to play soccer all the time, he says, but he can’t play outside. "I’m waiting for the summer to arrive and that I will be transferred to somewhere with a soccer field where I can play."

Ishaq Alrawi came from Fallujah, Iraq, via Turkey one month ago with her mother Nuha, pictured here, and her father.

Jean Paul "JP" Pozzi, manager of Riksgränsen, here with his partner Kristiina Lampinen who also works at Riksgränsen, says that everything happened so fast in the autumn when the hotel decided to accept 600 refugees.

Sweden has a growing population of Eritreans. Segan Johannes, 13, is one of many Eritreans who fled oppression at home.

Adila Mohsini and her kids (from left) Zahra Rizai, Jaafar Rizai, and Adis Rizai, came from Afghanistan to Riksgränsen. The Swedish Migration Agency estimates around 40,000 refugees from Afghanistan arrived in Sweden in 2015.

Abdullah Hammadi, 15, came from Salahhidin province in Iraq.

For most of the immigrants this is the first time they have experienced snow. The Hotel invested in over 100 toboggans.