ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the concepts in the multi-disciplinary field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations and exemplifications into a wider historical setting. The chapter does so by applying the double-sided critical perspective while trying to locate the Swedish social formation in relation to the main tenets that have grounded the idea of a particular Swedish model or exceptionalism. International migration and ethnic relations are the two areas distinguish Sweden more substantially from the other Nordic countries. First, because Sweden is among the countries with the highest proportion of foreign-born in the population within Europe, both in total and in terms of non-European Union migrants. Second and more importantly, because there has been a regime of inclusionary multiculturalism established in Sweden, and to some extent in the UK and the Netherlands, which has been relatively encompassing. The chapter describes studies on International Migration and Ethnic Migration as intimately connected with social relations, inequality and power.
