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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Sweden’s immigrant integration policy: the role of language

2020, 2020, No. 4

Vladyslav Butenko

0000-0001-6400-3137

Aleksei Chekmazov

0000-0002-9486-0348

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia – RUDN University (Moscow, Russia)

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.20.10

Publication date

14.12.2020

Publishing model

open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

Field

Social sciences

Discipline

international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

Language of publication

English, Polish

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Abstract

The increase in migration flows in 2010–2011 and 2015–2016 has brought the issue of immigrants’ integration in European countries to a qualitatively new level. The integration of immigrants and refugees is one of the central topics in academic and political discourses. This essay presents short analysis of the Swedish language policy towards integration of immigrants and refugees. The importance of this topic is determined by the fact that language is one of the instruments of inclusion in the host society.

Keywords:

migration,immigrant integration policy,language integration,Sweden,European Union

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