Reply to Ulf Appelgren letters to the editor on the DN Opinion:
To be human and citizens have many bottoms, but it is not possible to absolve itself of the responsibility it means to do good and to uphold the equal value of all people. This is described by bishop Desmond Tutu, the african concept of ubuntu: all are needed and are a part of a larger context.
We all have to live in such a way that others can also live well. Our prosperity to improve the lives of other people, not to take anything away from them.
who are concerned and see a scary similarity with what happened in the 1940s when many were displaced and sought protection from persecution. Today it is asylum seekers children/young people who need protection. The Swedish migration board refuses broadly consistent all grounds for asylum and deportations continue, to countries where serious human rights abuses take place.
Voices are heard which say that we in Sweden can’t afford to help those who seek protection. The question is can we afford not to? Have we as a country afford not to have a humane asylum policy?
both the financial and human losses if we do not follow the commitment of the signatories when it comes to protecting human rights. The agreement has been signed in order to prevent what happened before in the history to be repeated.
Kjell Hansen, senior lecturer and researcher on civil society in rural areas, writes in his article ”the reception of refugees and the future of rural areas” to the arrival of the large number of people that came in 2015, came to be the starting point for a range of activities in the local community and in the municipal context, tends the borders between the reception and integration to disintegrate.
the driving forces behind this:
• A general willingness to take care of the people, a charitable solidarity.
• A hope that as many people as possible would choose to remain in the municipality.
the Man saw the newcomers in the first place as a development opportunity and flyktingvågen led to a large civic engagement.
León Poblete, phd and researcher, writes in an opinion piece at SVT Opinion that history shows that immigration has given Sweden a demographic, cultural and economic net income, which can not be overestimated and that the research confirms that immigration in the long run have a positive impact on growth, productivity, innovation and trade.
a house and discover that there is severe damage in the foundation is probably your first thought that you can’t afford to fix it as needed. But soon you realize that it will cost more to resist.
When there is a serious damage in the load-bearing values in samhällsgrunden and when decisions are made without regard to human rights, the devastating consequences of the economic and human if you choose not to do something.
Sweden has advice with a humane asylum policy. We can afford to be fellow human beings, and can afford to take to be the strong driving force of people’s commitment and of the impulse of solidarity gives a society.
