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Craig Willy's avatar

Are there stats on ethnic minorities' voter preferences in Sweden?

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Laura Creighton's avatar

We have stats on everything. Interpretation, though, that's the challenge. :)

The report you are looking for is: called _Shared participation – a study of integration and segregation based on voting in the 2022 general elections._ It came out last summer. 100 pages long, and all in Swedish, but google translate does a pretty good job.

https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/democracy/general-elections/general-elections-participation-survey/pong/publications/shared-participation--a-study-of-integration-and-segregation-based-on-voting-in-the-2022-general-elections/

But, with all things, a small committed minority often leads the way. In Sweden, reading things like this: https://amirpars.substack.com/p/farewell-sweden-my-beloved-country (this is written one year later, but it's handy) caused a lot of ethnic Swedes to start saying that there were desirable and undesirable immigrants, and we needed a way to sort the one from the other. Discovering schools and business which were recruiting stations for IS, and having Kurdish rap singers say things like 'I didn't come to Sweden to become a Swede' and openly mock Swedes for gullibility made people wonder if becoming the launching ground for every damned would-be overthrow of existing foreign regimes was really good for us. Just because you have identified some horrible oppressive state actor as 'the bad guys' doesn't automatically mean that those who oppose them are 'the good guys'. Sometimes, the result is 'same sort of sociopaths, just a different list of 'who is to be killed by the death squads'

Currently there aren't enough dangerous violent criminals in Denmark who are willing to commit crimes, so criminals are paying for 'young Swedes' to come and do so. The only English language coverage I can find of this is behind a paywall, but here it is in Danish, and again google translate does a good job. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/politiinspektoer-danske-kriminelle-bestiller-svenske-unge-under-18-til-goere-det

You may also be interested in Inquisitive Bird's discussion of Criminality by country of origin -- only the first article, about Denmark, is up now but Sweden, Norway and Finland are coming -- https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p/immigration-and-crime-denmark

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Craig Willy's avatar

What share of POCs support right-wing parties?

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Laura Creighton's avatar

That's not a straightforward thing to figure out, because 'race' is not a thing that is collected here. But in any case, it is silly to assume that it is the colour of your skin that matters -- Swedish citizens of Indian origin report a very different experience as immigrants than who came from Syria. Nigerian immigrants, who come here to study at our universities and then stay have a different experience than Somali refugees, many of whom are not even managing to complete grade school. There are a lot of factors which go into determining how well you integrate into Swedish society, though the chief barrier still remains 'do you even want to?', but racism from Swedes based on the colour of your skin does not seem to be a top one.

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