Scandinavia takes plenty of people from Trump’s ‘s——- countries’
President Trump’s inflammatory comments about immigration from “s——- countries” continues to provoke commentary and outrage. Admir Skodo on The Conversation writes that the President, in urging admission of fewer immigrants from “s——-” – such as Haiti and poorer African nations – and more from the likes of Norway, labors under the misconception that the Scandinavian countries are ethnically and economically homogeneous.
Among Scandinavian countries, Denmark has the most restrictive immigration policy and Sweden the most open one, with Norway falling somewhere in between. These differences are reflected in the number of foreign-born. In Sweden, 15% of residents are foreign-born; in Norway it’s 11%, and in Denmark 8%.
Skodo looks at the countries of origin for the immigrants to those nations and concludes that “the Scandinavian countries are rather more open to what Trump would call `s——- countries” than the US president might think.”
KJ