Migration and integration
Skellefteå municipality receives newly arrived families, adults and unaccompanied children and helps them to integrate into Swedish society.
Refugee reception centre
The municipality's refugee reception centre receives families and individuals with residence permits who are assigned to the municipality. We can, for example, help with finding housing, pre-school, school and financial support, and provide information about how society works.
We also receive unaccompanied children and young people who are assigned here immediately after arrival in Sweden. We are then responsible for accommodation and care both during the asylum process itself and during the residence permit period.
The refugee reception centre provides support and information during the initial period to make it easier to integrate into Swedish society. Together with other actors, we encourage integration-promoting activities and enable new arrivals to find employment and support themselves. We want new residents' skills, creativity and labor to be utilized in the best possible way.
The Public Employment Service has the coordinating responsibility for the establishment of new arrivals in terms of work and education. The Public Employment Service's introduction programme provides support in the form of activities and training for some recently arrived immigrants. The goal is to be able to learn Swedish, find a job and financially support yourself as quickly as possible.
If you are unable to support yourself or your family, you can claim income support.
Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) is a course for adult migrants with a residence permit who wish to learn the Swedish language.
Skellefteå municipality wants to promote migration to the municipality. In order for the influx to be lasting and sustainable, the skills, creativity and labor of new residents must be utilized in the best possible way. As a large proportion of the new residents are immigrants, some of these strategic issues concern what is usually called integration policy.
The following eight focus areas are considered to be of particular importance for integration in Skellefteå today: leadership, utilizing the workforce, adult education, childcare and school, the reception of unaccompanied refugee children, community involvement, housing and public transport.
Successful integration requires local support and collaboration between a variety of actors in the public, non-profit and private sectors.
Skellefteå municipality's integration plan states that the municipality will:
- strive for cultural diversity, by giving people equal rights and opportunities regardless of ethnic and cultural background
- counteract xenophobia, racism and discrimination
- encourage people to actively participate in associations and community life
- making Skellefteå an attractive home municipality for refugees and immigrants
- provide people from different cultures with the conditions to earn a living and realize their life goals.
Informationsverige.se -
the guide to Swedish society
Informationsverige.se is a website with clear and accurate information about society in ten languages, aimed at asylum seekers and newly arrived immigrants. Simply put, it is a guide to how Swedish society works.