The Immigrant Institute The Immigrant Institute was established in January 1973. It is located in 'Invandrarnas Hus' (The House of Immigrants) in Borås. The purpose of the institute is to work as a national documentation centre on immigration. The library has an impressive amount of literature relating to issues concerning immigrants. One important collection is the collection of magazines published by immigrants in Sweden. The Immigrant Institute has, among other things, initiated quite an extensive documentation program in the field of immigration. More than one hundred books have been published since 1973. Current information about immigrants is given in the periodical Invandrarrapport. Here you may find a longer presentation in English

The House of Immigrants The Archive The Library

Books

The Immigrant-institute runs its own publishing company, Invandrarförlaget which has published more than a hundred books in different languages. Besides own books, the books published by Invandrarförlaget, the Institute also dstribute other books dealing with issue of migration, immigrants and assimilation, as well as fiction and poetry by immigrant authors.
The languages in which books are available (besides Swedish) are: Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Kurdish, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Turkish and Urdu.
Here is a list!

The Immigrant Institute also functions as a secretariat for the following immigrant organizations:

• IRF, Immigranternas Riksförbund (The National Federation of Immigrants in Sweden)
• IKIS, Internationella konstnärer i Sverige (International Artists in Sweden)
• SVIFF, Sveriges invandrarförfattares förbund (The Federation of Immigrant Authors in Sweden)