[LINK] The New Swedes

[rfmcdonald]

Christopher Caldwell's article in The New York Times, "Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State " speculates about the consequence of Sweden's wave of heavy immigration--from the rest of Scandinavia, from eastern Europe, the Middle East, and other points. As Keith B. Richburg noted in the Washington Post in 2004 ("No Longer Just Nordic"), Sweden is now much more multiethnic than it has ever been at any point in its post-imperial history. The question, as Caldwell points out, is whether this multiethnicity is going to be handled sensibly.