The Swedish Roma integration Strategy 2012-2032 and its connection to the "Roma Decade" 2005-2015.

What is it about?

This is about recent strategies of integrating the Roma minorities into the Swedish society. They are, like in most countries, very disadvantaged in society life. Our focus is education. 2005-2015 was the big European initiative "The Decade of Roma Inclusion" aiming at really progressing in including the Roma minorities into society life, fighting discrimination, low education levels, poor health and low standards of living. Some progresses were made. At the same time, Sweden was ion communication with this biggewr cInitisative but choose another way after a couple of sstate-funded studies. A longer period, 20 years. A Roma child should at the entry of adult lifge at 20 years of age 2030 have the same possibilities as any Swede. We researched European and Swedsish documents and made interviews to understand and evaluate this Swedish approach, and the road to it, more in detail.

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Why is it important?

There is very little written about this recent strategy in the research literature, and it is an interesting strategy to discuss, although the road to it was not all straightforward. Some Roma groups opposed to being labelled as discriminated victims, and they thought that Sweden did not have much to learn from central European societies.

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