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6/2011 Spirit of the Times Fear of “the foreigner” is deepened when people experience increased vulnerability in a changing world. Old notions about the “other” are in danger of being roused. At the same time a new society has taken shape and a new generation with different ways of thinking about culture, ethnicity and religion has grown up. Read about “Islamophobia”, the new generation, wariness of foreigners and how three ethnic groups from former-Yugoslavia found a way of living side-by-side. more... Next Issue Ten years of “Big city ventures”. Don’t miss this issue. Out in March!				Pounds and pennies /…/ The social climate hardens /…/ And the weakest are affected. The latest in line of those affected are tortured and war-traumatised refugees who have up to now been successfully treated at the Red Cross Centre for Tortured Refugees. The Red Cross recently lost a bid with Stockholm County Council. The winner is a private care provider with little experience of working with the patient group. /…/ If the decision is final, 26 years of accumulated knowledge and experience will soon be scattered to the winds. Accumulated knowledge and experience will also disappear when Stockholm University lays down its interdisciplinary Centre for Research on International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Ceifo /…/ That our own magazine risks losin... more...