The Minister for Integration (

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

: ''Integrationsminister'') was a

cabinet minister A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the ‘prime minister’, � ...

within the

Swedish Government The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden ( sv, Konungariket Sveriges regering) is the national cabinet of Sweden, and the country's executive authority. The Government consists of the Prime Ministerappointed and dismissed by the Speaker of the R ...

between 1996 and 2014. The

was appointed by the Prime Minister of Sweden. The minister was responsible for issues regarding

integration Integration may refer to: Biology *Multisensory integration *Path integration * Pre-integration complex, viral genetic material used to insert a viral genome into a host genome *DNA integration, by means of site-specific recombinase technology, ...

discrimination Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong. People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, relig ...

, human rights at the national level, Swedish citizenship and minorities. The last Minister for Integration was

Erik Ullenhag Erik Jörgen Carl Ullenhag (born 20 July 1972, in Uppsala) is a Sweden, Swedish politician who served as Ministry of Employment (Sweden), Minister for Integration from October 2010 to October 2014 and as parliamentary group leader of the Liber ...

, who served from 2010 to 2014. When the Andersson Cabinet took office in November 2021, the minister post was re-established. It was placed at the Ministry of Justice, and combined with Minister of Migration. Since October 2022, the position is placed at the Ministry for Employment and the current minister is

Johan Pehrson Carl Johan Georg Pehrson (born 8 May 1968) is a Swedish politician who has been leader of the Liberal Party since 8 April 2022. He has been a Member of Parliament since 2018, representing Örebro County, and previously represented the same cons ...

of the Liberals.

List of Ministers for Integration

Ministry history

The office of Minister for Integration was under several different

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from its founding in 1996 to its abolishment in 2014. The offie was re-established in 2021. Government ministers of Sweden {{Sweden-poli-stub