The new Minister of Education and Integration and leader of the centrist Liberals, Simona Mohamsson, is pushing forward the government’s plan to map the values of immigrants in Sweden.
“The time has passed to go by gut feeling and guesswork in integration policy. With facts on the table, we can talk about Swedish values and then come up with clear initiatives in the area of integration,” she said.
“It’s not about changing opinions. It’s about upholding the values we have in Sweden. It would be strange if we said that some people don’t need to have these values,” Mohamsson clarified the aim of the project.
She stressed that immigrants have a responsibility to integrate into Swedish society.
“It is not a human right to live in Sweden.”
Mohamsson was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany. When she was eight, she and her family relocated to Sweden, where they changed their surname from Mohammed to Mohamsson. Her father is of Palestinian descent, and her mother is originally from Lebanon.
The questionnaire will focus on issues such as gender equality, children’s rights, and trust in public institutions.
