Gang Crime
The rise of organized criminal gangs in Sweden has been ongoing since the 1990s. At first, organized crime was dominated by biker gangs, but crime gangs are increasingly becoming loose-knit coalitions of friends and acquaintances, concentrated in immigran
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TINO SANANDA JI
Mass Challenge
Tino Sanandaji
Mass Challenge The Socioeconomic Impact of Migration to a Scandinavian Welfare State
Tino Sanandaji Institute for Economic and Business History Research (EHFF) Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden
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Preface
For we are conquered by overwhelming motives: honor, fear, and profit —Thucydides, on the motives for human conflict, 5th century b.c.
In the early morning of Saturday, July 16, 2016, the Rosendal fire station in the city of Uppsala received a phone call. The alert concerned a suspected fire in Gottsunda. This high-rise neighborhood is located about a mile southwest of the city center and was built as a part of the Million Program in the 1960s. Gottsunda is a typical immigrant neighborhood characterized by social exclusion—one of the areas often portrayed in the news in connection with unrest. Earlier during the night, violent disturbance had erupted in the district. Some thirty masked youths set fire to trash bins and threw rocks at rescue personnel. The fires escalate at midnight and create a riot-like atmosphere in the area. At 2 am, the fire station receives an alarm that someone has noticed smoke smell in the stairwell of Bandstolsvägen 38. The fire commander had earlier in the evening made the decision that the fire department was not allowed to go to Bandstolsvägen without a police escort. Therefore, the fire truck awaits the five
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