Despite its small numbers, Jewish cultural life has been a growing part of Swedish culture since 1774, when Aaron Isaac arrived in Sweden from Germany and became the first documented Jewish person in the country who chose not to convert to Christianity. Jews received full citizenship and religious freedom in the 19th century. Yet the 20th century brought a new wave of Jewish immigrants to Sweden's shores, when the country eventually stepped in to open its doors to victims of the Holocaust. While some of these victims moved on, others stayed in Sweden becoming a part of the Jewish cultural life there. My research will focus on what aspects of Swedish culture affected Jewish culture before the war, and then how Jewish culture may have changed in light of Central and East European immigrants and Holocaust survivors coming to Sweden after the war.

A powerful narrative presents the response to the global challenge of migration as the erection of borders. This paper explores its apparent converse: the easing of borders at the regional level. There are now policies and laws facilitating the free movement of people in at least thirty-three regional organizations involving 174 states, in addition to numerous bilateral agreements and domestic norms. Yet little work has been done to understand their scope. This Article defines a new field of study for international law, labelled as regional free movement of people law, and systematically presents its components.