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Arvidsson Kvissberg, Siri Karolina (2015)

Reasons Behind the Tension: A Study of the Interaction Between Natives Swedes and Minority Groups

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

As Sweden’s government has begun accepting high numbers of immigrants, the resulting cultural tensions seems to be a secondary concern. Culture can be argued as the basis of a nation-state, and when culture is threatened the citizens tend to turn against ‘the other’, as they believe them to be the threat (Schwarz and Cauchon 13). The aim with this paper is to explore how various groups in the ethnically heterogeneous country are willing and able to interact, with a focus on how their identity contributes to this interaction. There are certain groups in Sweden that are becoming alienated due to the effect of their cultural identity, two of these groups are the Roma people and the Muslim community (Persson 8).

Sweden

Immigration

Integration

Minorities

Author

Arvidsson Kvissberg, Siri Karolina

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Bertens, Laura

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en