US EditionThis European Country Will Map Immigrants' Values To Boost Integration
- Sweden announced plans on July 6 to survey 3,000 people about their values to improve immigrant integration under its right-wing government.
- This initiative responds to challenges arising from mass immigration in the last decade and diverging values found in previous World Values Surveys.
- Approximately half of the survey participants will have Swedish origins, while the remaining half will come from non-Western backgrounds; the findings are intended to inform integration strategies that emphasize maintaining core Swedish societal values.
- Integration Minister Simona Mohamsson stated, "It's not immigration that's the problem, but failed integration," and emphasized immigrants' responsibility to participate in society.
- The survey and government policies imply a structured effort to address segregation and promote social cohesion amid Sweden’s secular and unpatriarchal context.
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Swedes without immigrant friends "do not contribute to an integrated Sweden." Anyone who does not want to live among immigrants "is racist," explains S-höjdaren Sara Kukka-Salam.
"It is not a human right to live in Sweden," says the new Swedish Minister of Integration Simona Mohamsson. Migrants need to integrate - this also concerns values. As it stands for immigrants from Sweden, the question is now to be asked.
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Sweden plans to begin studying the values of immigrants in order to better integrate them into the country's progressive and liberal society, the new integration minister said on Sunday.
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