Victoria Rixer, a cultural worker, author, and journalist, has drawn comparisons between the Swedish-Finnish minority in Sweden and the Finland-Swedes in Finland, according to SVT Nyheter. She argues that the Swedish-Finnish minority should have the right to education at all levels in Finnish, access to engagement and culture in Finnish, and more developed media in Finnish, as stated by Victoria Rixer. However, the current state of Finnish-language education, media, and cultural access for this minority in Sweden remains unclear, with specific measures or policies not detailed in available reports.
According to SVT Nyheter, Victoria Rixer described that in the pressure of the very small pot that exists, there is conflict over who gets to identify as Swedish-Finnish. Researchers state that internal conflicts in minorities always involve blackening each other, as reported by SVT Nyheter. The extent and main causes of this infighting within the Swedish-Finnish minority are not fully known, and how widespread it is remains uncertain.
It should be obvious that we – just like the Finland-Swedish minority in Finland – would have the right to education at all levels in Finnish, access to engagement and culture in Finnish, and much more developed media in Finnish. If we had that, the infighting in our group would also decrease. In the pressure of the very small pot that exists, it becomes the conflict over who gets to identify as Swedish-Finnish.
According to SVT Nyheter, Anna Järvinen described feeling excluded even within Swedish-Finnishness. Official responses or reactions from Swedish authorities or policymakers to these claims about minority rights have not been disclosed, and a quantitative or qualitative comparison of the Swedish-Finnish minority's position in Sweden to that of the Finland-Swedes in Finland is lacking.
I have felt excluded even within Swedish-Finnishness.