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  • How anti-racism strategies can backfire

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    Jonathan Morgan
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    While reading about refugee children in Sweden, I came across a study by Ann Runfors which looked at the way that schools on the multicultural margins of Swedish society instil identity in those they teach. What Runfors found was that while the schools she visited worked hard to avoid emphasising the differences between people, with…

  • Sweden’s new class system

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    A short time ago I visited a Syrian family with a friend of mine. My friend is an engineer and had decided to help this family’s two sons with their maths homework. Our time with the family was lovely. We got there and the two sons were ready to get started right away. They started…

  • Is identity fixed?

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    One of the interesting factors in the immigration debates that take place around Europe is how common it is that we end up making identity seem like something that is set in stone.  Whoever you ask what it means to be Muslim, or what it means to be Swedish, they will usually describe something that…

  • The one who got sent back

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    In my last post I mentioned the young men I spoke to who had converted to Christianity within the Church of Sweden. What I failed to mention was one young man, Amir*, who converted to Christianity, was then deported, but returned to Sweden a second time in order to seek asylum. Amir had lived in…

  • What does it mean to belong?

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    There’s a lot of talk these days about belonging: who’s in and who’s out. Everyone seems to have an opinion. No one really knows who gets to decide. For some, it’s the immigrants who don’t belong. They’re the outsiders who should go back to where they come from. For others it’s the racists who don’t…