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.

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.

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.

Background: Getting older means a series of changes in life, some of which lead toincreased risk of poor health outcomes. Older people who immigrate to a new countryalso need to adapt to new cultures and norms, and having to learn a new language inorder to communicate with their environment. Being older and immigrant thus leads toa double vulnerability. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to examine how olderimmigrants? health is affected by not being able to communicate in a country?s officiallanguage.

Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att ta reda pa? bista?ndshandla?ggares syn pa? a?ldre med missbruksproblematik, samt deras syn pa? samarbetet med andra enheter ga?llande denna grupp. Underso?kningen a?r baserad pa? kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra bista?ndshandla?ggare fra?n tva? olika stadsdelar. Empirin a?r uppdelad i tre olika teman och dessa a?r o?verla?mning och samarbete mellan enheter, riktlinjer fo?r bemo?tande samt fo?rha?llningssa?tt och bista?ndshandla?ggares uppfattning kring arbetet med missbrukare.

In Sweden there is an integration policy and a policy for national minorities. The integration policy aims to integrate newly arrived immigrants (nyanlÀnda invandrare), whereas the minority policy aims to maintain and strengthen the rights of the national minorities. The national minorities are though, at times, included into the integration policy, even though they hold a minority status in Sweden. This paper aims to, through discourse analysis, investigate the research question: ?how is the content of integration referred to, when it is related to immigrants, contra when it is related to national minorities?.

This study is about the work of including immigrants to the Swedish society. The reason that we chose Landskrona community is that it is a town with a high population of immigrants. The purpose of this work has been to examine how projectleaders reflect about the work of integration in Landskrona and their point of view regarding the term integration. Our questions were: what is the projectleaders view on the term integration, how does the projectleaders reflect about the work of integration in Landskrona, how would the projectleaders like the work of integration to be, how does the projecleaders reflect about the future work of integration in Landskrona.We used a qualitative method to do this study and interviewed six persons who all work in various projects, that are working for including immigrants to the Swedish society.Our main results in our study is various kinds of thoughts and reflections of the work of integration in Landskrona, but there were some things that were more approaching than others. There is a high ambition of integrate immigrants into the Swedish society in Landskrona and the projectleaders had all many reflections of their work.