Maud Cordenius

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A restaurant in Stockholm last Friday. Credit Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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It’s noon here, and from the window of my home office I can see my two daughters playing in the yard at their preschool across the street. I reach for my phone to text my best friend, a nurse who lives in Westport, Conn., to share some family trivia I just discovered. She has been hunkered down in her home with her husband and their two young daughters since March. She’s beginning to wonder what they will lose first — their jobs or their minds.

“Guess what my great-grandmother’s name was? Jósephina Corona. From Italy”, I write. Unlike my friend, I am not forced to stay at home.…  Seguir leyendo »

Agnes Ester, the author’s great-grandmother, was among the million Swedes who set sail for the United States in the early 1900s.Credit Maud Cordenius

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I was nursing my daughter in our home here when I learned that the nationalist Sweden Democrats captured 17.5 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections last month. Since neither the traditional left or right blocs won a majority, the Sweden Democrats, with roots in the neo-Nazi movement, hold the balance of power.

In the days leading up to the election I received racist propaganda in my mailbox from a more extreme right party that said of immigrants, “Time to go home”.

It made me reflect on the women in my family and our own history of migration.

In the early 1900s, Sweden was a country you migrated from, not to.…  Seguir leyendo »