Friday, February 17, 2006

Swedes step ahead on ethnic harmony/ International Herald Tribune, 17 Feb 2006

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/16/news/sweden.php
Ivar Ekman
"In some ways, Sweden has been more dramatically affected by immigration than other European countries. Virtually free of non-Nordic immigration until the 1930s, Sweden has seen an explosion of its foreign-born population since the Second World War. The first to arrive, during the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s, came from southern Europe. But in the last three decades, asylum seekers from further afield have dominated, with people flowing in from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Bosnia, Albania, Chile and Somalia, among other places."