Swedish teachers have denounced a proposal by a authorities minister to restrict the variety of non-Scandinavian residents in neighbourhoods as “state racism.”

Ten teachers largely comprised of professors from numerous Swedish universities slammed the proposal made by Minister for Integration Anders Ygeman, who mentioned he would assist a coverage to restrict the variety of non-Scandinavian or “non-Nordic” residents in areas so they didn’t change into a majority.

“The proposal is troublesome to take severely, however on the similar time horrifying. It brings to thoughts the apartheid system and state racism that will cement and legitimise ethnic divisions as an alternative of combating them,” the specialists mentioned in an opinion article for the newspaper Expressen.

The specialists added that the coverage of separating individuals into “Nordic” and “non-Nordic” would reinforce segregation, slightly than fight it.

“It is troublesome to see how anybody can consider that such a division of the inhabitants will be conducive to integration. In truth, it’s clear that it slightly will increase and deepens segregation and distances between individuals,” the specialists mentioned.

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The teachers went on to declare that the reasoning of Ygeman’s proposal was”absurd” and argued {that a} profitable integration course of in Sweden would contain “a mutual, frequent society constructing the place Swedes of various ethnic origins meet on equal phrases and are handled as equals.”

“Integration presupposes a society the place nobody is taken into account roughly ‘Swedish’ or ‘Nordic’ than anybody else due to their ethnicity or pores and skin color, Where identities are allowed to be advanced, combined and self-chosen, not imposed from exterior. Especially not based mostly on some state ethnic file that brings to thoughts state racism,” they lectured.

Minister Ygeman made his feedback earlier this month, saying: “I believe it’s unhealthy to have areas the place the bulk are of non-Nordic origin.”

His feedback have been subsequently supported by Swedish prime minister Magdalena Andersson, who mentioned the concept of limiting the variety of non-Scandinavian residents may facilitate integration efforts.

“[E]veryone who lives in Sweden [should] additionally [feel] that they’re a part of Sweden, sees their mother and father go to work. This is how we will additionally be sure that younger individuals are not drawn into crime,” Andersson mentioned.

The concept of lowering or limiting the variety of migrants in neighbourhoods and areas was initially proposed in Denmark final yr, with the federal government calling for limits to the variety of non-Western residents in areas to not more than 30 per cent.

Denmark has proposed countering the formation of parallel societies by limiting the variety of non-Western residents in neighbourhoods to not more than 30 per cent. https://t.co/RlLrNSqRLn

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