ABSTRACT
In 1966, immigration to Sweden became regulated. However, there is no regulation of migration between the Scandinavian countries, and around 50 per cent of the immigrants come from Finland. In 1975, the ten countries from which the most immigrants came, besides Finland, were Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, the USA, Great Britain, Turkey, West Germany and Italy, in that order. Most immigrants are young, and the birth-rate among immigrants is higher than among the population in general. Thus, immigration has contributed to a small increase in the total Swedish population. Around 1970 an experiment was launched to train Finnish-speaking, bilingual students as regular primary school teachers. For several years now, such training for Finnish-speaking teacher trainees has been a regular part of the programmes of schools of education. A high rate of social and emotional disturbances has often been assumed to exist among immigrant and ethnic children.
