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Title The question of integration : immigration, exclusion and the Danish welfare state / edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Karsten Paerregaard.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Language Revised and translated version of a previous Danish publication.
Subject Social integration -- Denmark.
Immigrants -- Denmark.
Assimilation (Sociology) -- Denmark.
Welfare state -- Denmark.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Assimilation (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst00819095
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Social integration. (OCoLC)fst01122550
Welfare state. (OCoLC)fst01173685
Denmark. (OCoLC)fst01204558
Added Author Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-
Paerregaard, Karsten.
Other Form: Print version: Question of integration. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 1443826340 (DLC) 2010670872 (OCoLC)683414173
Standard No. 9786613142443
ISBN 9781443827959 (electronic bk.)
1443827959 (electronic bk.)
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