'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations.
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'Integration' : Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations. / Olwig, Karen Fog.
In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2011, p. 179-196.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - 'Integration'
T2 - Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations.
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - After a long history dominated by out-migration, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have, in the past 50 years, become immigration societies. This article compares how these Scandinavian welfare societies have sought to incorporate immigrants and refugees into their national communities. It suggests that, while the countries have adopted disparate policies and ideologies, differences in the actual treatment and attitudes towards immigrants and refugees in everyday life are less clear, due to parallel integration programmes based on strong similarities in the welfare systems and in cultural notions of equality in the three societies. Finally, it shows that family relations play a central role in immigrants’ and refugees’ establishment of a new life in the receiving societies, even though the welfare society takes on many of the social and economic functions of the family.
AB - After a long history dominated by out-migration, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have, in the past 50 years, become immigration societies. This article compares how these Scandinavian welfare societies have sought to incorporate immigrants and refugees into their national communities. It suggests that, while the countries have adopted disparate policies and ideologies, differences in the actual treatment and attitudes towards immigrants and refugees in everyday life are less clear, due to parallel integration programmes based on strong similarities in the welfare systems and in cultural notions of equality in the three societies. Finally, it shows that family relations play a central role in immigrants’ and refugees’ establishment of a new life in the receiving societies, even though the welfare society takes on many of the social and economic functions of the family.
U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2010.521327
DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2010.521327
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 179
EP - 196
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
SN - 1369-183X
IS - 2
ER -
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