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...arrived after World War II, assimilated quickly into Swedish society, their transition facilitated by racial affinity and the fact that the dominant culture was never seriously challenged. Today's newcomers are more likely to be refugees from Africa, Asia or the former Yugoslavia, and in a setting like Hjällboskolan, the sheer plurality of nationalities complicates the process of assimilation...
...Given Hjällboskolan's diversity, Katarina and Suman's friendship might be expected to be the norm. Only 15% of Hjällboskolan's 430 students are so-called native Swedes-those with long-standing roots in the country-so you might think that most of them would, like Katarina, study alongside their immigrant peers, developing friendships along the way. Not so. Most of Hjällboskolan's classrooms and most of Gothenburg's schools are, in effect, segregated...
...tricky process, especially since many Swedish students remain in their own academic cocoon, isolated from their non-native schoolmates. The 23 students in Yngve Blomfelt's Wednesday afternoon geography lesson, for example, are almost all native Swedes and all are from Olofstorp, a small village nestled in the countryside. Hjällboskolan's hallways may teem with diversity and the babel of foreign tongues, but none of this is evident inside Blomfelt's classroom...
...Each morning these and other children from Olofstorp board a bus and make the 20-minute journey to Hjällbo, the immigrant enclave where the school is located. Despite their demographic dissimilarity, bucolic, middle-class Olofstorp and Hjällbo, which has the dubious distinction of being Sweden's poorest municipality, both fall under the administrative umbrella of the district of Lärjedalen for social services like education. Hjällboskolan is one of Lärjedalen's two public schools for children aged...
...gritty, multiethnic environment into which the Olofstorp students are delivered bears little resemblance to their pristine, predominantly Swedish village. But their interactions at Hjällboskolan are comfortingly familiar. The Olofstorp children remain together for most of their course of study, in core subjects like history and Swedish, and mix with other students only for secondary subjects like athletics...