Like many other EU and OECD countries, the political discourse on immigration and refugee reception in Sweden centres around its imagined burden and costliness. To a certain extent, academia has corroborated this tenuous perspective. Whilst the consequences of increasing economic disparities and marginalisation along ethnic and racial lines in Sweden cannot be denied (for which the migrated persons cannot possibly be blamed), the positive and ultimately vital aspects of immigration are continually ignored. Rather than constituting a policy problem in and of itself, immigration would be better off construed as a policy solution to the prevailing challenges most reception countries and their labour markets face.