ABSTRACT
This chapter was promoted by an interchange which took place between the writer and a group of graduate students of the University of Lund after a conference on minorities in Scandinavia held near Korsor in Denmark during April 1970. The writer and his students both felt that the approach of the Korsor conference was inadequate in two respects. On the one hand it sought to include all minority problems (e.g. those of the Lapps, the gypsies, the Jews, the Finns in Sweden and the Swedes in Finland, Yugoslavs, Greeks and Turks in Denmark and Sweden as well as the problems presented by the exploitation of colonial labour in Greenland and in the Norwegian merchant navy) within a single frame of reference. On the other it adopted a welfare-based approach assuming that at a governmental level there was no motivation other than that of ensuring justice for immigrant groups and, in some sense of the term, their integration into the several Scandinavian societies. What the Lund seminar tried to do was to focus attention upon one specific type of minority situation, namely that of the Southern European minorities in Sweden and to adopt a more realistic approach in estimating the likely motivation of participants.
