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Migration, Family and the Welfare State
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Description| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Author(s) | Karen Fog Olwig / Birgitte Romme Larsen / Mikkel Rytter |
| Subtitle | Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia |
| Published | 10th April 2014 |
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Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia
Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the three receiving societies, studying how these are experienced by migrant and refugee families as they seek to realize the hopes and ambitions for a better life that led them to leave their country of origin. The three Scandinavian countries have had parallel histories as welfare societies receiving increasing numbers of migrants and refugees after World War II, and yet they have reacted in dissimilar ways to the presence of foreigners, with Denmark developing tough immigration policies and nationalist integration requirements, Sweden asserting itself as a relatively open country with an official multicultural policy, and Norway taking a middle position. The book analyses the impact of these differences and similarities on immigrants, refugees and their descendants across three intersecting themes: integration as a welfare state project; integration as political discourse and practice; and integration as immigrants’ and refugees’ quest for improvement and belonging.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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