10 December 2010

'Integration a fiasco': Gothenburg official

.... He sent the embassy a series of articles from newspaper Göteborgs-Posten (GP) published in 2007 about the integration challenges in and isolation experienced by the city's Somali community. He wrote in a memo that the situation in Gothenburg reminded him of the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem."

.... "The discontent immigrant community leaders expressed at the discrimination faced by Muslim job seekers was matched by the frustration of city officials who, in the words of one official, feel that 30 years of programmes aimed at integrating Muslim immigrants 'have not worked,'" the leaked cable stated. [The Local] Read more [via Islam in Europe]