Two weeks ago to the day White Papers published a piece covering the apparent paradigm shift taking place in Sweden. The Nordic nation’s government had published a report recommending that repatriation payments be increased to nearly $15,000 dollars and that immigrants who had already been naturalized also be eligible for repatriation payments to return to their homelands.

This was and remains a significant development in the history of the West. Sweden, pushed forward by the Sweden Democrats (a nationalist party with ethnic nationalist origins), has become the first nation to set up serious government inquiries on the topic of repatriation and now appears to be the first nation to take action.

In this aforementioned piece White Papers also made a series of recommendations to Swedish politicians including:

1. Increasing the available amount of money to at least $30,000 per repatriate in order to ensure them financial security. 
2. Utilizing existing ethnic minority interest organizations to promote the program. 
3. A media blitz of politicians and famous Swedes to take to the airwaves, televisions, social media, and print in order to promote the program and make its existence widely known.

Now, two weeks later, it appears that Swedish politicians are taking our advice or at very least have made similar realizations.

AFP News, a major French media outlet, reports that Sweden’s government is planning to increase repatriation payments to $34,000 dollars per head. The Swedish state plans to have the program in place starting in 2026, less than 18 months from now, and Migration Minister Johan Forssell went so far as to publicly comment on the ‘paradigm shift’ that is taking place in Sweden’s migration policy.

The current repatriation program in Sweden offers just $500 per repatriate with a cap at $4,000 for an entire family looking to leave the country. The Swedish government reported that just one migrant took up the offer in 2023 and as far as White Papers can discern none of taken this meager payment so far in 2024.

This new program could see a married couple receive $68,000 while no data has been provided on different payments for children. Still, $34,000 represents nearly 11 years of income in Syria while a couple would receive 22.5 years worth of income in Syria. An Iraqi individual would likewise receive 6 years worth of average income for Iraq while a married couple 11.6 years worth of average income in Iraq.

With Iraq’s standard 25-year mortgage rates, which are interest free and require only a 10% down payment, the nearly 180,000 Iraqis in Sweden could build homes and establish themselves extremely cheaply in their homeland and all without having to worry about ‘integrating’ (or lack thereof) into Swedish society.

But the good news goes beyond money. A spokesman for the Sweden Democrats, the party pushing the plan the government is now backing, has also said that a media blitz to inform migrants of the program would likely result in hundreds of thousands of jobless, underemployed, and low income immigrants taking up the offer.

This could be a significant numerical shift in a country of 10.5 million people. A country where just 65% of the population, or roughly 6.86 million people, are of Swedish extraction. A reduction of just 600,000 people, half a million migrants plus the 100,000 illegal immigrants in the country, would increase the native Swedish share of the population to 70%. The repatriation of two million migrants would increase the share of native Swedes to 80%.

It is our belief that this program could be robustly effective at pushing migrants to leave Sweden and return to their homelands and countries of origin. It may even result in a type of ‘reverse’ chain migration where migrants who were born in Sweden but have foreign citizenship follow their co-ethnics abroad.

In fact, we think this is likely as White Papers has already reported that tens of millions of US born minorities and millions of UK born minorities would leave those countries if robust financial resources were made available for them to do so.

And Sweden is proposing the deployment of robust financial resources. The newly proposed payment is nearly $5,000 higher than the average migrant income of just $29,400 per annum – income calculations that include the many welfare benefits currently provided by the Swedish state.

Combined with Sweden’s existing plans to limit social and state benefits to only European migrants the program stands a serious chance at pushing out hundreds of thousands of migrants who would be financially better off spending this repatriation payment in their home countries.

The Great Repatriation is upon us and the words För Sverige – i tiden have never had greater meaning.