| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) |
| Contents |
The cultural construction of Danish society. Integrating Denmark: The welfare state as a National(ist) accomplishment / Steffen Jöhncke -- "The family of Denmark" and "the Aliens": Kinship images in Danish integration politics / Mikkel Rytter -- The paradox of integration: Excluding while claiming to integrate into Danish society / Inger Sjørslev -- Religion and integration: Three Danish models for the relationship between religion and society / Cecilie Rubow -- To be Danish and Muslim: Internalizing the stranger? / Tina Gudrun Jensen -- Contesting Danish civility: The cartoon crisis as transitional drama / Heiko Henkel -- Day-care in Denmark: The key to social integration / Helle Bundgaard -- Psychiatric patients with a Non-Danish ethnic background: Categorization in a Danish welfare institution / Katrine Schepelern Johansen -- Suffering for benefits? Integration and social exchange between Iraqi refugees and Danish welfare institutions / Sofie Danneskiold-Samsoe -- Caught in the grid of difference and gratitude: HIV positive Africans facing the challenges of Danish sociality / Hanne Overgaard Mogense -- The obligation to participate: Micro-integrative processes of civil sociality / Sally Anderson -- Integration, of the Folk and by the Folk / Richard Jenkins -- Danes and others / Ralph Grillo -- The multiple registers of immigrant reception: Comparative mythologies / Vered Amit |
| Summary |
The question of integration has become an important concern as many societies are experiencing a growing influx of people from abroad. But what does integration really mean? What does it take for a person to be integrated in a society? Through a number of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Revised and translated version of a previous Danish publication |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social integration -- Denmark
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Immigrants -- Denmark
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Assimilation (Sociology) -- Denmark
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Welfare state -- Denmark
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Migration, immigration & emigration.
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Social welfare & social services.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Immigrants
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Social integration
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Welfare state
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Denmark
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-
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Paerregaard, Karsten.
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| ISBN |
9781443827959 |
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1443827959 |
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1283142449 |
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9781283142441 |
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