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Abstract: As this report shows, the presence or non-presence of the Swedish language in Swedish ECEC is one of the key questions in the integration-preschool debate, and a key argument for the measures taken to include children with a foreign background in preschool at the national level. At a local level, the focus is on how to reach out to newly arrived families and incorporate them into open preschools, which are seen as the first step towards children's preschool enrolment. In this introduction, the authors provide contextual information relevant to the scope of the report (sections 1.1–1.4), and present the research methodology used when writing the report. This, which was a three-step process: Step 1) identifying key actors at national and local level (sections 1.5 & 1.6), step 2) describing and analysing the political process at national level via documents such as government inquiries, bills and debates (section 2), and step 3) describing and analysing how municipalities work when ...
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