Tove Lifvendahl skildrar svensk integrationspolitik på utrikiska, och försummar inte de litterära allusionerna. Sånt gör intryck.
How Sweden became an example of how not to handle immigration
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/h...578.1472792500
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It may be news to the rest of the world, but gang warfare has been a feature of our country for years now. Stockholm has been witness to Dickensian scenes of young pickpockets and thieves playing games of cat-and-mouse with the police, who feel powerless. Until fairly recently, Sweden was admired for its progressive social policies. Today, one in seven voters supports the Sweden Democrats, a populist party until recently reviled in polite Swedish society.
The problems relating to immigration have been building up for years, but the country’s left and right were united in maintaining employment regulations and rent controls that kept immigrants unemployed in ghetto-like suburbs. As a result, we lost valuable time. Three years ago, there were riots in socially deprived areas of Stockholm, and it’s only got worse since then. A parallel society is emerging where the state’s monopoly on law and order is being challenged. ‘Today, the gang environment is — well, I don’t want to exactly call it the Wild West, but something in that direction,’ says Amir Rostami, an authority on Swedish organised crime who teaches at Stockholm University.
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The children are every age and arrive from all kinds of countries. Afghans and Somalis are currently the two biggest groups. Then come Syrians, Ethiopians, Iraqis, Moroccans and Eritreans. Some are fleeing war; many are fleeing poverty and misery. Strikingly, boys outnumber girls by about five to one. And it’s far from clear how many may in fact be adults — unlike other countries, Sweden doesn’t test for age. Whatever age the applicant gives is accepted, unless it’s ‘obviously’ untrue. The definition of ‘obvious’ is unclear. During one recent interview on Swedish radio, several asylum-seekers confessed to lying about their age to improve their chances of settlement. One, called Dawood, put it bluntly: ‘If I say I’m grown-up, they’ll deport me.’
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Sweden’s care homes have become a rich source of vulnerable young men who are full of frustration and hopelessness and lacking in direction. They may be open to the temptation of easy rewards, or of a path that they are promised will bring new meaning to their lives. There have been reports of Islamic State recruitment drives, not just in public places, but inside Swedish government programmes. Last year my newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, exposed how some official schemes had been infiltrated by jihadists.
But stories of shocking abuse, the kind that would be front-page news in Britain, are relegated to the inside pages of the Swedish press.
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The pity of this saga of what I view as a ruined country, is that the situation was completely avoidable had not ideology rather than reality ruled - an ideology which the author, for all his rueful truth-telling here, clearly still buys into.
The manipulation of the truth to Swedes was an immense betrayal of trust. It isn't just "child migrants" who were let down: it was the Swedish citizens who had a right to expect that their government would put their voters' and taxpayers' interests before Sweden's "image" of itself. Small wonder the Sweden Democrats are doing so well.
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Geography has no magical power to convert people into model citizens. If you import thousands of Somalis into Sweden, they don't automatically become Swedish upon entry. This ought to be obvious, but unfortunately it's a fact that is considered bigoted and xenophobic by our betters.
A brief look at the state of Somalia, or any other nation, will give you a rough guide as to how immigrants from that particular part of the world will behave once they arrive in their newly adopted nation.
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Good. Could not happen to a more smug, self-righteous group of prigs.
I have never met a group of people with a greater belief in their superior humanity than the Swedes.
It is almost cultish the way they think that if only the rest of the world was more like us Swedes everything would be just fine.