...gives you facts versus prejudices … and a crash-course on the realities of diversity. As a reader of i&m it isn’t just a matter of accepting the situation, but of getting involved in the community. i&m is a popular science magazine that helps you make up your own mind by providing arguments to enable you to challenge, convince and make a difference.
6/2008 ”Belonging” Growing up in Sweden and having Swedish parents is not enough to be regarded as Swedish. Adopted children and “mixed children” live, just like the children of immigrants, with their belonging in doubt. Appearances play a decisive role. With all due respect to diversity plans. In theory they lead to increased profitability, creativity and equality. But as long as ethnic differences are valued hierarchically, the practice will be different. more... Next Issue Here you can read about the discrimination of Jews in Sweden during the Second World War, of democracy on the school timetable and how international adoptees are used as a weapon in the gay adoption debate. 1/2009 is due out on 17th February!				Bringing matters to a head ”You should always bring matters to a head”/…/David Schwarz, the magazine’s founder and editor up to 1996/…/practice what he preached – right up to the very end he wrote debate articles, demanded change and held decision-makers accountable. This pioneering dynamo is now silent./…/ * * * Things need to be brought to a head in order to illustrate the consequences. Like the Moderate approved “contract” that newly arrived asylum seekers /…/should declare that they are familiar with and follow “Swedish values”. Integration fails because “they” are not like “us”./…/The tone is familiar and reflects the Moderate Party manifesto “Land for the hopeful” of 1997, when a fictitious “honourable Västerås inhabitant” was allowed to vent hi... more...