In August of 2024 one of my fellow writers at the institute covered a report published by the Swedish government about the possibility of radically increasing repatriation incentives to get foreign-born Swedish passport holders and residents to leave their country and return to their homelands. This original report suggested that $15,000 be offered to immigrants looking to return to their homelands. We then went on to make a series of suggestions about what the Swedish state about do in order to further incentivize repatriation.

We recommended that the Swedes offer much more than $15,000. That way the money they were paying repatriated immigrants would sustain them in their homelands and therefore be much more attractive a sum. We suggested the Swedish state begin an information campaign to inform migrants and foreign born residents about the possibilities of repatriation. And lastly, we suggested the Swedish state work with ethnic minority oriented organizations to inform these communities even more directly about a chance to return to their countries of origin.