"Breaking segregation", "breaking the gangs" and "reducing exclusion" have been recurring political messages before the election on Sunday.
And the sports movement is often highlighted as part of the solution.
Since 2015, organized sports, distributed via the National Sports Confederation (RF), have received targeted government money for work with integration and inclusion.
The hope is to attract more people who are newly arrived in Sweden or live in segregated areas to the sports movement.
Ygeman (S): "I think the grants will increase"
Although the support has decreased in the last two years, it is in the millions.
During 2017-2019, the total was SEK 78 million annually.
This year, the targeted support for sports' integration work is SEK 30 million.
- I believe that the grants for sports to be active in vulnerable areas will increase in the years to come.
Because it's a little tougher to recruit leaders there, it's a little tougher for the children to pay the fee there and then we have to have a little more funding as well, says sports minister Anders Ygeman (S).
An opinion he is not alone in.
Of the eight parties in the Riksdag that SVT Sport has interviewed, seven want to see increased government support.
The moderates want to invest in sports lifting in vulnerable areas
Before the election, several parties have also presented stated investments.
For example, the Moderates promise SEK 250 million annually in a special sports lift in vulnerable areas.
- When I talk to people in different sports, they say that they don't get there in the same way (in socially disadvantaged areas).
Therefore, a serious investment is needed, not just temporary projects - because we have a project disease in this country - but stable permanent activities that reach generation after generation of children and young people, says party leader Ulf Kristersson.
SD does not believe in government integration money
The Sweden Democrats' sports policy spokesperson Angelika Bengtsson sees it in a different way.
She points out that the sports associations are an important social force in socially vulnerable areas, but does not believe that it is because of the government money.
- In above all areas of exclusion, sports associations have taken a very big responsibility and that is good, because it has also yielded results.
But I think it is that they have been there that is the primary thing, rather than that they have had integration work done to them.
Let sports be sports, not be part of this integration project, she says.