Nordic Tolerance Under Strain as Anti-Immigration Parties Grow
In Stockholm’s suburb of Husby, the roads still bear charred marks from cars torched in Sweden’s worst riots for years.
Last May’s violence exposed wounds yet to heal in a Swedish election year, underscoring the Nordic state’s struggle to integrate a record number of immigrants and challenging its open door traditions.
Many Swedes remain tolerant of immigrants and asylum seekers. But a growing minority are fearful of crime, concerned about jobs and worried about costs to the welfare state.
Questioning immigration is no longer a taboo, a growing trend in the Nordics where populist anti-immigrant parties are now part of the political landscape. . . .
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