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> There are areas like this in most countries. But for quite many decades, there didn't use to be areas like that in Sweden.
by ptaipale 10y ago
> There are areas like this in most countries.
But for quite many decades, there didn't use to be areas like that in Sweden.
- alkonaut 10y agoNo one is contesting that either. Areas like this become like this because of poverty and unemployment. Sweden has a system of very high entry level wages making the threshold for getting a job very high. If you immigrated from Somalia the chance that you have a job a decade later is around zero. So in a way this comes as an unfortunate result of success rather than failure. We "could afford" having migrants, and we have had the luxury of high entry wages. The fact that this leads to massive segregation and thus integration problems is the downside we haven't figured out.