According to the report, integration was deficient mainly from the perspective of employment, as only 21 percent worked despite the fact that most of Malmö's residents who were born in Somalia were between 16 and 40 years old.

The Open Society Foundation (OSF) project At Home in Europe counted the proportion of those with a low-level or "unknown" education at 60-70%.

[18] In 2010, there were 4,269 students with Somali as their mother tongue who participated in the state-run Swedish for Immigrants adult language program.

[20] When Somalis go to Sweden, they enter a country which has not experienced a major war in over two hundred years, a state apparatus stretching over a five-century time span, strong institutions, high-tech industry, an advanced knowledge-based economy with a generally high level of education.

Sweden is also one of the most secularized societies with liberal values in areas that are central to traditional Somali culture: family, sexuality and gender.

[22] According to an interview study done by Malmö University in 2013, Somalis express strong concerns about losing their culture and Islamic religion.

The clan system also facilitates money transactions to relatives who live in the Horn of Africa, via a form of banking where no receipts are used.

The closures were due to strengthened legislation designed to thwart alleged money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

[27] In 2015-16, Somaliska riksförbundet i Sverige (SRFS; English: the Somali National Association in Sweden[28]) community organisation was granted funding from the governmental Swedish Inheritance Fund for the Navigator project, which, through seminars and workshops, aims to counteract extremism and prevent religiously-inspired violence and potential terrorist recruitment.

[32] According to the Herbert Felix Institutet, as of 2011, the three principal active Somali community organisations based in the Scania region are the Somalilandföreningen and the Hiddo Iyo Dhaqan in Malmö, as well as the Somaliska kulturföreningen in Kristianstad.

Many other smaller associations have been established in the region, but these do not operate regularly and are essentially single person organisations ("one man show").

[27] According to the Herbert Felix Institutet, a number of European Union-funded projects have been launched around Scania in conjunction with the Somali community organisations.