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Author Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-

Title Migration, Family and the Welfare State : Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (184 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1. 'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations; 2. Money or Education? Improvement Strategies Among Pakistani Families in Denmark; 3. Multicultural Ideology and Transnational Family Ties among Descendants of Cape Verdeans in Sweden; 4. From Danish Yugoslavs to Danish Serbs: National Affiliation Caught Between Visibility and Invisibility; 5. Law and Identity: Transnational Arranged Marriages and the Boundaries of Danishness
6. Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden7. Ali's Disappearance: The Tension of Moving and Dwelling in the Norwegian Welfare Society; 8. Tamil Refugees in Pain: Challenging Solidarity in the Norwegian Welfare State; 9. Becoming Part of Welfare Scandinavia: Integration through the Spatial Dispersal of Newly Arrived Refugees in Denmark; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Social integration -- Scandinavia
Immigrants -- Scandinavia
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Scandinavia
Welfare state -- Scandinavia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Immigrants.
Social integration.
Welfare state.
Scandinavia.
Form Electronic book
Author Larsen, Birgitte Romme, 1975-
Rytter, Mikkel
ISBN 9781135704322
1135704325