Are Right Wing Extremists in Scandinavia a Threat to Government Personnel and the Societal Mainstream? A Prognosis.

Abstract

Violence from right wing extremists has been part of daily life in Scandinavia since the 1940s. From the 1950s and 1960s onwards, new ethnic minorities in the form of labor migrants arrived in the Scandinavian countries. Sweden received hundreds of thousands; in Norway and Denmark, on the other hand, labor migrants did not arrive in significant numbers until the 1970s and then on a far smaller scale than in Sweden. As a result of this immigration, tension and violence erupted in the countries. Traditional violence like firebombing of refugee centers, beating up of immigrants, and more grave violence was common in all three countries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 12, 2001
Accession Number
ADA401229

Entities

People

  • Kjell I. Baekken

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Criminals
  • Denmark
  • Electronic Mail
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Homicide
  • Human Population
  • International Relations
  • Labor Unions
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Minority Groups
  • Organizational Structure
  • Second World War
  • Societies
  • Terrorists
  • Threats
  • United States

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.