Assimilationspolitiken i praktiken : en psykologisk omöjlighet? Fem män berättar

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The immigration politics in Sweden has consisted of two different ideologies during the last century. Until the seventies the immigrants who didn´t return to their home countries were expected to assimilate to the Swedish society, in 1974 the integration model was put into practice. The official reason of the decision was that assimilation was considered immoral and undemocratic. Some researchers claim that integration was a necessity due to the lack of resources for the assimilation of immigrants. The purpose of this essay was to examine what immigrants that came to Sweden when the assimilation model still was in use, think about the two different ideologies. Have they had a negative experience of assimilation? Did they had to deny a part of themselves in order to be accepted into the Swedish society? Has assimilation wrongly been associated with the identity of the immigrants? Based on my interviews and research there is nothing that confirms the idea that assimilation is an undemocratic method. Neither have I found any critic against the consequence of assimilation as...