Let’s postulate a scenario where I, an open borders lunatic with one immigrant parent and one Swedish parent, could’ve been convinced that Sweden should keep some limit on the amount of people who gets to stay temporarily, and/or some limit on the amount of those who gets to move full citizenships.
I’m not saying it’d be easy to convince me of that. Arguments would have to get pretty tender, like “Okay, we are gonna try to let everyone in later, we just need to get everything ready first and build up a good social safetynet robust enough to handle the influx safely so we can help everyone”. So the point of this essay isn’t gonna be that I’ve gotten on board with “limits on immigration” because I haven’t and that’s not what this is. So put an pin in that worry.
The scenario where you’ve managed to convince me about a limit on either or both of those two “gates” being a good idea is just a hypothetical for the sake a point I’m trying to make:
Even then, 99% of the policy suggestions I see from the far right (and from S in their current “stram migration” hellscape era) are about making the lives of people worse. In the name of limiting migration they instead propose and implement hassling and harassing human beings at various stages through those two sluice gates. In the name of integration they keep furthering segregration.
Personer med dubbla medborgarskap ska kunna fråntas sitt svenska medborgarskap om de döms för brott som allvarligt skadar Sveriges vitala intressen, enligt ett beslut som nu fattats i riksdagen.
So even citizens can never truly feel Swedish. How can we build a shared community when there’s this foundational inequality?
S is now talking about an “integrationsskuld”; an idea trying to convey a racist idea that we “let in too many” immigrants and they messed it up for everyone and now we’ve got to clean up. But if that were true (and again, that’d be a hard sell for me given how that same decade coincided with catastrophic privatization reforms causing massive corruption and furthering segregation in health care and education), it doesn’t make sense how all their political proposals serve to instead further segregation, alienation, and distrust.
Except of course to the extent it binds the outgroup. “Vote for our rich-get-richer policies and we’ll protect you from the muslims, Mexicans, and queers,” just like Mussolini drew it up.