I have become unashamedly fascinated by the experiment in remigration that the Swedish state is embarking upon. When I step outside my home and look across the Lincolnshire landscape and out into the North Sea in the distance I am all too aware that there is a country beginning to experiment with the policies that are unquestioningly necessary for the survival of my country as well.
For those who need a reminder, Sweden had announced the following remigration policies:
- The Swedish state will pay migrants (including people with Swedish citizenship) some $34,000 to return to their homelands.
- The Swedish state is going to tighten citizenship laws by imposing language, cultural, and longer residency requirements.
- The Swedes are going to tighten their refugee policies to “the strictest in Europe”.
- The Swedes plan to let more migrant visas expire each year than they approve. Causing a natural decline in non-permanent resident migrants.
- The Sweden Democrats are pushing through with a media blitz policy to inform migrant communities about the remigration opportunities.
- The Swedish state is going to make it law that all public workers, including teachers, doctors, and other state employees, must report any interaction with an illegal immigrant.
In my September 13th piece (below) when I reviewed the original remigration proposal of the Swedish state, I repeated three White Papers recommendations to Swedish policymakers.
The first was that Sweden increase the proposed remigration payment from $15,000 to $30,000 and that third recommendation was that the Swedes engage in a media campaign to work with migrant communities on remigration. Between that article and my December 6th piece (here) the Swedish state took up both of those recommendations.
While I do not take any personal credit for this development, I certainly do credit the hard work of the White Papers Policy Institute team with mainstreaming the ideas of the Great Repatriation.