Published: 18 Jul 12 12:17 CET | Print version
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The government wants to increase support for vulnerable female “love immigrants” who may not know their rights with the aim of helping them better adjust to life in Sweden.
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Sacked but given another role to be useless in.
Give each person who comes a welcome pamphlet (in their native language) that gives them all the key information how things work and don't work.
In our SAS (Svensk som andra språk, there were two lessons, in lesson 1 they showed how Swedish peasants avoided gipsy (zigenare) with the prejudice that they are thieves and on the other hand, a Swedish guy in another lesson stole the engaged gypsy woman from her boyfriend.
First let's make thing clear here, when politicians talks about the need to integrate "immigrants" they are talking about a particular group. There is no need to integrate Americans or Brits, they do it very well just by themselves.
Second, you just can't integrated those who refuse to integrate, pure and simple. Those who believe they should follow the law of their prophet rather than the law of the land they freely choose to immigrate to.
singling out foreign women for assistance whilst neglecting men beggars belief. both categories of spouses are in the same situation. i know lots of foreign men married to women in this country who are poorly treated and exploited.
if a law is to be made, it must carter to both males and females. simple.
But seriously, folks..........
40m SEK? If the proponents of the scheme can't see or find something of real social need to spend this amount of money on, their suitability as elected representatives and/or Government ministers is in grave doubt.
"Imported" men are from normal countries with rights and ability to study. They are REAL love immigrants. The program is created for those women who are imported in the full meaning of the word. Thai and Philippino females who make a deal of marrying old and ugly swedish farts in exchange for financial stability.
In fact they sell themselves into slavery for money and although they are legally free to walk away, they simply do not know it and are locked in the fear of economic disaster, since they are usually housewives without any work experience. The program is to INFORM them of the real deal and therefore this program is not exactly for the majority of men. I really do not see what the problem is.
On the other hand, the failure of the minister of immigration is apparent, so starting programs for few thousand, whereas hundreds of thousands asylum seekers look the way they look, is a faulty priority.
thats one of the first problems with integration, the other comes when their children grow up halfway between 2 completely opposed cultures.
Regarding the treatment of men:
Women are always under all circumstances considered innocent victims in the officially endorsed ideology around things like these. You will therefore never see any reports on unfair treatment of men from swedish state sponsored research.
About the report that the proposition is based on:
Something not mentioned in the article is that the definition of a swede used in the article is anyone with a permanent residence permit. The vast majority of cases brought upp in the report "Kvinnor och barn i rättens gränsland" ("Women and children in the borderlands of jurisdiction") is actually cases involving this wider definition of a swede. The largest contribution of cases are Iraq, Iran and Africa, countries that very few ethnically swedish get their partner from. It's usually someone that get married to an ex asylum seeker and later on is abused alternatively want to have an excuse for a divorce. The typical thai and ukrainan wife that swedes prefer are less common, especially compared with the vast number of them here. Especially people from Thailand are far from isolated since they by my own experiences support each other in different ways.
Few years ago so many girls claimed to be raped just to get their hands on the fat money and when the government decided to make thorough investigation most of the women were caught and today you rarely hear the word rape from a girl,
my advice, want to stop abuse get to the root of the matter find out what is causing violence in most families , i think its reasonable spending on the caused of violence.