The question of integration : immigration, exclusion and the Danish welfare state /

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Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Social integration -- Denmark. Immigrants -- Denmark. Assimilation (Sociology) -- Denmark. Welfare state -- Denmark. Assimilation (Sociology) Immigrants. Social integration. Welfare state. Denmark. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11174459

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Other authors / contributors:	Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948- Paerregaard, Karsten.
ISBN:	9781443827959 1443827959 1283142449 9781283142441 1443826340 9781443826341 1443826359 9781443826358
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Revised and translated version of a previous Danish publication. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Question of integration. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 1443826340
Standard no.:	9786613142443

Table of 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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