Integration policies have failed to make diversity into anything more than occupying the same physical space. People of different cultural background still do not share their lives to any real extent. Attempts made within planning and landscape architecture to catalyst the integration process have mainly been focused on structural measures, such as residential policies. As for outdoor environments, non-verbal casual encounters in the shape of crossing paths are assumed to lie at the heart of urban social integration.The aim of the thesis is to question this assumption and, as the thesis will show, there is literature supporting this aim. Looking at the works of Gordon Allport, Lewis Coser and some of their followers, I find intercultural contact to require more complex ways of interaction in order to reduce prejudice and to generate tolerance and understanding.

The present memorandum outlines the structure, theoretical starting points and disposition of a thesis about the activities of Finnish immigrants in a Swedish local community, more specifically their political integration. The intention is to study the municipality of Katrineholm in the years 1944 to 1991.Previous research about the actorship of immigrants in spheres such as politics, labour unions, immigrant associations, educational associations and mass-education, as well as churches and religion, is presented to give an overview of possible areas connected to political integration that can be studied. The overview of previous research also covers local immigrant politics.The intended theoretical starting points for the proposed thesis are political economy and hegemony. The latter is intended to be investigated through its expression in the social relations class, gender, ethnicity, nationality and generation. It is suggested in this memorandum that hegemonies and social relations within a local political economy can be operationalised fruitfully in a study of political integration.

This paper examines, through questionnaire, how young students in upper secondary school in Malmo experience social integration. It also contain what they think should be done in order to improve the integration between youth that are ethnic Swedish and youth that have a foreign background. To understand the subject we started with a review over Swedish integration politic and its influence over Malmo and social integration in the country. We have used such theoretical starting points as identity and ethnicity in relations to the social surroundings, social affinity theory and flexible mindedness, making of groups among youth and factors to promote social integration. Our conclusion is that the experience of social integration between the two groups depends on how you experience yourself.

STÖDCENTER FÖR EU-MIGRANTER I LILJEHOLMENIdag bestĂ„r den snabbast vĂ€xande gruppen hemlösa i Stockholm av arbetsimmigranter frĂ„n andra EU-lĂ€nder .Mitt projekt har som syfte att erbjuda denna grupp mĂ€nniskor med en byggnad som kan hjĂ€lpa dem integreras in i samhĂ€llet, och fungera som en lĂ€nk och mellansteg mellan livet i utanförskap och ett vĂ€rdigt liv med möjlighet till jobb, eget boende och social gemenskap..

Migration och folkomflyttningar Àr starkt relaterat till skeenden i vÄr omvÀrld och kopplade till globala strukturer och problem. Sverige blir i detta sammanhang ett mottagarland för migration i vilket strategier för immigranters integrering stÀlls i relation till samhÀlls- och arbetsmarknadsutveckling. För immigranters lyckade integration kopplas nationell integrationspolitik starkt till den förda arbetsmarknadspolitiken. Det statligt styrda organet Arbetsförmedlingen fÄr hÀr en nyckelroll för immigranters integration och tilltrÀde till arbetslivet. Trots ett lÄngtgÄende och omfattande samhÀllsarbete pÄvisar statistik och tidigare forskning att immigranter utgör en exkluderad grupp pÄ arbetsmarknaden i förhÄllande till infödda individer.Denna studie syftar till att med fokus pÄ de sociala nÀtverkens roll fÄ förstÄelse för arbetsförmedlares upplevelser av strukturella brister pÄ den svenska arbetsmarknaden i deras arbete med enskilda immigranter.

Bakgrund: Inom h?lso- och sjukv?rden ?r det vanligt att m?ta migranter och det finns ofta spr?kbarri?rer som f?rsv?rar kommunikationen. F?r att bryta denna spr?kbarri?r kan tolkar anv?ndas, men att anv?nda tolkar i v?rdm?tet kan ocks? ha konsekvenser. Syfte: Syftet ?r att belysa migranters och sjuksk?terskors erfarenheter av tolkanv?ndning. Metod: En litteratur?versikt har genomf?rts som baseras p? 10 vetenskapliga artiklar, varav 8 anv?nder sig av kvalitativ metodik och 2 anv?nder sig av kvantitativ metodik. Resultat: Resultatet sammanfattades i 3 huvudteman och 6 subteman; huvudtemat ?Informella tolkar? med subtema ?Familjemedlemmar och anh?riga som tolkar? och ?V?rdpersonal som tolkar?, huvudtemat ?Professionella tolkar? med subtema ?Anv?ndning av professionella tolkar i den kliniska v?rden?, ?Erfarenheter av tolkanv?ndning inom h?lso- och sjukv?rden?, ?Egenskaper hos tolken som p?verkar tolksituationen? och ?Tolkens professionella kompetens? samt huvudtemat ?Organisatoriska faktorer som p?verkar tolkanv?ndningen?. Resultatet visar hur olika faktorer p?verkar tolkanv?ndningen. Slutsats: Anv?ndningen av tolkar inom h?lso- och sjukv?rden kan ha olika konsekvenser beroende p? vilket typ av tolk som anv?nds.

The purpose of this paper was to examine social workers' experiences of integration of unaccompanied children. We aimed to study which factors in the individual and the community social workers experience affect the integration and how they, based on their understanding, work to promote integration. The essay has a phenomenological approach and focuses on the social workers' own experiences of the phenomenon. The empirical data was obtained from qualitative interviews conducted with five social workers, all administrators in cases involving unaccompanied children. The result shows that the social workers feel that the desire to integrate is the most important presumption that must be present in the unaccompanied children.

Övergripande frĂ„gestĂ€llning i studien har varit; pĂ„ vilket sĂ€tt och hur blir en muslimskimmigrant pĂ„verkad av integrationen till det svenska samhĂ€llet? Studien bygger pĂ„ sexintervjuade muslimska immigranter i Ă„lders gruppen arton till femtiofyra, bĂ„de mĂ€n ochkvinnor har blivit intervjuade. Resultatet har visat att muslimska immigranter uppleveren stor frihetskĂ€nsla av att komma till Sverige och ser det svenska samhĂ€llssystemetsom ett ?perfekt? system. Personerna som intervjuades berĂ€ttade om hur de har varitutsatt för diskriminering och negativa fördomar.

Bakgrund: Att ?ldras ?r en naturlig process som kan leda till f?r?ndringar i meningsfulla aktiviteter, vilket kan p?verka ?ldre personers h?lsa och delaktighet. Arbetsterapeuter m?ter ?ldre personer i sin vardag f?r att delvis uppr?tth?lla h?lsan genom aktivitetsbaserade insatser, samt fr?mja sj?lvst?ndighet och deltagande i aktiviteter. Tidigare studier har visat att aktiviteten dans, som meningsfull aktivitet, har bidragit till ett aktivt och h?lsosamt liv, samt skapa en k?nsla av samh?righet hos ?ldre personer.

Our purpose with this study was to look at the connection between social capital and integration. Particularly if meetings between people from different cultures can increase social capital and in that way affect integration. We start by identifying the social integration perspective we are going to use through out the study and then we introduce social capital theory as a way of narrowing down the field even more. The study was done through six semi structured interviews. We interviewed three women that was established in the Swedish society and three women that had immigration background.

The purpose of this essay is to examine the Swedish governments discourse on integration of immigrants and thereby examine what social reality it constructs. The aim is to examine how integration and immigrants are constructed within the discourse. The method and theory being used in this essay is discourse theory. As a methodological instrument we use the policy on functional impairment as a comparison. The material being analyzed in this essay is political documents on the strategy on integration policy and the strategy on the policy of functional impairment.

According to our apprehension, work of integration is commonly considered managed in the main best through the labour market. Since this path is not available to everybody we wanted to find out how work of integration also can be practised in other areas. The purpose of this paper is to, with focus on children and youth, find out and analyze in what way the people working locally in residential areas and in associations, reflects around integration in general and within their own business, plus in what way they pursue local work of integration practically. The method we have used is qualitative, with unstructured, individual interviews. Our seven respondents within local authority, church and sport clubs, have told us about their work from a perspective of integration.

Social exclusion is a problem in today?s society that we feel public libraries can help resolve since they are based on the idea of equality and openness. The purpose of this essay is to examine how public librarians think and reason about the concept ?integration? as well as what role public libraries can play in immigrants? integration process. With Jose Alberto Diaz? theory on the integration process, and Marianne Andersson and Dorte Skot-Hansen?s model for analysis of the local library profile as theoretical framework, we analyzed the responses from two qualitative interviews in small groups of 2-3 librarians from two different public libraries.

Bakgrund: Personer ?ver 65 ?r utg?r 17 procent av befolkningen, men de svarar f?r 25 procent av all suicid, vilket g?r gruppen ?verrepresenterad. Suicid f?rekommer i alla samh?llsklasser och ?r ett folkh?lsoproblem. P? varje fullbordat suicid genomf?rs cirka 30?40 suicidf?rs?k hos den yngre befolkningen.

Bakgrund: Sjuksk?terskors har en nyckelroll i v?rden och vikten av effektiv kommunikation f?r att s?kerst?lla h?gkvalitativ omv?rdnad. Spr?kbarri?rer identifieras som hinder f?r kommunikation och patients?kerhet, d?r anv?ndningen av tolkar kan vara en l?sning men ocks? medf?ra utmaningar. Det ?r av avg?rande betydelse att s?kerst?lla korrekt information och kommunikation f?r att minska risken f?r v?rdsskador och fr?mja patients?kerheten.