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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