Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets

Johan Spanner for The New York Times
By SUZANNE DALEY
Published: February 26, 2011

MALMO, Sweden — Nick Nilsson, 46, decided to vote for Sweden’s far-right party last fall because of a growing sense that his country had gone too far in letting so many immigrants settle here.

Sweden's Immigrant Identity

Johan Spanner for The New York Times

Ask Gasi, from Bosnia, got a degree and a job but still feels unwelcome.

A truck driver, Mr. Nilsson lives a half mile from the Rosengard section of this city, where dreary apartment buildings are jammed with refugees from virtually all the world’s recent conflicts: Iranians, Bosnians, Palestinians, Somalis, Iraqis.

“No one has a job over there,â€