Citizenship In The Nordic Countries

Author : Arnfinn H. Midtbøen,Simon Roland Birkvad,Marta Bivand Erdal
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789289355247

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Citizenship in the Nordic Countries by Arnfinn H. Midtbøen,Simon Roland Birkvad,Marta Bivand Erdal Pdf

The Nordic countries have a century-long tradition for cooperation within the area of citizenship law. Since the mid-1970s, however, the Nordic countries have moved in different directions. Today, the Nordic countries represent the entire continuum in European citizenship policies – from liberal Sweden to restrictive Denmark, with the other Nordic neighbors in between. This report reviews the historical development and the current citizenship regime in the five Nordic countries, it provides statistics on the acquisition and loss of citizenship in each country over the past 10-15 years, and it offers a comparative analysis of the divergent development of citizenship law in the 2000s. The concluding chapter discusses possible consequences of the different citizenship regimes and the prospects for strengthened cooperation between the Nordic countries in the area of citizenship law.

Author : Arnfinn H. Midtbøen,Simon Roland Birkvad,Marta Bivand Erdal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9289355239

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Citizenship in the Nordic Countries by Arnfinn H. Midtbøen,Simon Roland Birkvad,Marta Bivand Erdal Pdf

Author : Bjørn Hvinden,Håkan Johansson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134120925

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Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States by Bjørn Hvinden,Håkan Johansson Pdf

This book offers an innovative analysis of the ways in which the relationship between citizens and welfare states - social citizenship - becomes more dynamic and multifaceted as a result of Europeanization and individualization. Written by interdisciplinary contributors from politics, sociology, law and philosophy, it examines the transformation of social citizenship through a series of illuminating case studies, comparing Nordic countries and other European nations. Dealing with the following areas of national and European welfare policy, legislation and practice: activation – reforms linking income maintenance and employment promotion scope for participation of marginal groups in deliberation and decision-making impact of human rights legislation for welfare and legal protection against discrimination and social barriers to equal market participation coordination of social security systems to facilitate cross-border mobility in Europe pension reform – efforts to make pension systems sustainable. Citizenship in Nordic Welfare States will be of interest to students and researchers of social policy, comparative welfare, social law, political science, sociology and European studies.

Author : Ann-Helén Bay,Bo Bengtsson,Per Strömblad
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443826280

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Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia by Ann-Helén Bay,Bo Bengtsson,Per Strömblad Pdf

Diversity, inclusion and citizenship are highly contested concepts. This book sheds light on how the traditionally homogeneous welfare-states of Scandinavia struggle to develop as democratic societies in the globalisation era. In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, migration from all parts of the world continues to challenge the idea of social citizenship—highly endorsed in the Scandinavian tradition. The volume brings new perspectives on immigration and integration strategies employed by the three countries, and their consequences for social and political relations. Presenting in-depth analyses, based on up-to-date empirical data, the 19 authors scrutinise a number of dilemmas related to diversity and inclusion in multicultural societies. Exploring tensions in terms of rights and obligations, participation and identity, the chapters provide new insights into the complexity of majority-minority interaction, political traditions and democratic legitimacy. Drawing on case studies as well as comparative analyses, the authors present new and original empirical findings, and they also offer important theoretical contributions to general social science discourses. Taken together the chapters provide an indispensable source, not only for those seeking to understand the current trends in Scandinavian integration policies, but also for those who are generally interested in issues of diversity, inclusion and citizenship.

Author : Anna Karlsdottìr,Linus Rispling,Gustaf Norlén,Linda Randall,Nora Sánchez Gassen,Timothy Heleniak,Erik Peurell,Nina Rehn-Mendoza,Helena Lagercrantz
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789289355186

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State of the Nordic Region 2018 by Anna Karlsdottìr,Linus Rispling,Gustaf Norlén,Linda Randall,Nora Sánchez Gassen,Timothy Heleniak,Erik Peurell,Nina Rehn-Mendoza,Helena Lagercrantz Pdf

State of the Nordic Region 2018 Migration and Integration presents a series of facts and figures showing the current state of integration within core socioeconomic sectors, including demography, the labour force, health, and foreign background in state funded culture in the Nordic Region. The report is produced by Nordregio, an international research center for regional development and planning established by the Nordic Council of Ministers, on behalf of Nordic Welfare Centre and the programme Nordic co-operation on integration of refugees and migrants, along with Nordic Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis. The report is partly based on State of the Nordic Region 2018, which is a unique compilation of statistics and maps, giving a detailed view of the Nordic countries at both national and regional level.

Author : Karl Henrik Sivesind,Jo Saglie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319553818

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Promoting Active Citizenship by Karl Henrik Sivesind,Jo Saglie Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, governance in municipalities, nursing homes and schools, and finally, the consequences experienced by the users of the services. The authors ask which combinations of governance structures, service sector providers, and user choice give the best results for active citizenship. Promoting Active Citizenship will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Public Administration and Management, Non-Profit Management, Social Policy, Innovation in Public Service, Social Care and Education and School Research.

Author : Heidi Biseth,Bryony Hoskins,Lihong Huang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030667887

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Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education by Heidi Biseth,Bryony Hoskins,Lihong Huang Pdf

This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education through to teacher education. Nordic countries have long traditions of democracy and their students have performed relatively well in the ICCS assessments. Nonetheless, citizenship education continues to evolve and has received increasing attention in recent educational reforms, indicating policymakers understanding that schools play an important role in establishing democratic values among future citizens. Data from ICCS can be used to analyze, discuss, and reflect on the status of civic and citizenship education and can contribute to the discourse on the potential role of education in contributing to sustainable democracies for a common future. However, teaching citizenship and learning democracy are two different things. While young people can be taught about democracy in school, it is vital that schools work together with the wider community in which youth operate to strengthen civic understanding and values for all young people regardless of their social and economic background.

Author : Magnus Linnarsson,Mats Hallenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040040980

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Nordic Welfare Cities by Magnus Linnarsson,Mats Hallenberg Pdf

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities. In the contemporary world, the role of cities as hotbeds for progressive change has become increasingly topical. Historical studies on how Nordic cities addressed social and environmental questions a hundred years ago and how they eventually created new and inclusive policies for the future is a useful contribution to the current debate. The concept of the welfare city is addressed and elaborated upon to analyse the attempts by urban authorities to solve the problems following industrialization and urbanization. From the late nineteenth century, municipal public services promoted the integration of new groups in the urban community including workers, immigrants, women and children. The contributions in this book analyse various examples of welfare and public services that include infrastructure and transport systems, health care, housing conditions, outdoor life and entertainment. The chapters highlight the arguments and considerations promoting welfare policies, while also addressing differences between the Nordic countries. The evolution of the Nordic welfare city was a process of several overlapping phases or dimensions. This volume will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in urban history, social and cultural history and European history.

Author : Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius,Jaan Paju
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509951864

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Free Movement of Persons in the Nordic States by Katarina Hyltén-Cavallius,Jaan Paju Pdf

Can it be argued that there exists a concept of Nordic citizenship, founded on inter-Nordic cooperation and its relationship with EU law and EEA law? Researchers from all five Nordic States (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) explore the tensions, gaps, and overlaps arising from the interplay of EU citizenship, EEA law, and the Nordic initiatives that aim to facilitate cross-border mobility of persons in the region. The analysis takes a dual approach. Firstly, it tracks the legal development of nationality law in Nordic states. Secondly, it sets out the rights of residence and access to social rights that follow from the three different regimes. It asks if the Nordic States, through their regional cooperation, are 'going beyond' EU free movement law, making naturalisation to a citizenship in a Nordic state particularly attractive. This important new work gives a unique perspective on EU citizenship and free movement law.

Author : J. Anderson,Jens Hoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230507968

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Democracy and Citizenship in Scandinavia by J. Anderson,Jens Hoff Pdf

Major changes in citizenship and democracy have taken place in Scandinavia within the last two decades. Participation in conventional forms of politics has declined markedly, and the ability of institutions such as political parties and trade unions to deliver social mobility is being eroded. Instead, Scandinavians are turning towards single issue participation and 'small democracy' in the workplace or in public sector service institutions. The scenario is that of a 'spectator democracy' with engaged and conscious spectators who lack the long-term political commitment to engage actively in 'big democracy'. Also, Scandinavian citizenship is challenged by structural unemployment, EU membership, and immigration. This book deals with the details of these processes and in particular how they have affected political participation, identity and social polarization.

Author : Grete Brochmann,Anniken Hagelund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137015167

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Immigration Policy and the Scandinavian Welfare State 1945-2010 by Grete Brochmann,Anniken Hagelund Pdf

This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.

Author : Tomas Hammar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351945370

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Democracy and the Nation State by Tomas Hammar Pdf

First Published in 2016. In this book starts with the discussion located at the crossroads between two basic political principles. The first one is the democratic idea of representative government, based on elections by general suffrage. The second is the nation-state principle which says that the world is divided into sovereign states and that only those who are citizens can claim a right to take part in political life, in other words that foreign citizens are not allowed to participate in political elections. Democracy is honoured almost everywhere, at least as a principle, but the modern system of states presupposes that as a general rule only those who are citizens are entitled to vote, to stand for election, to join parties, and to participate in political debate and give voice to their political demands and interests. Both these basic political principles are young, and their pre sent confrontation is therefore also new to us.

Author : Jo Saglie,Karl Henrik Sivesind
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013289277

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Promoting Active Citizenship by Jo Saglie,Karl Henrik Sivesind Pdf

This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries.The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, governance in municipalities, nursing homes and schools, and finally, the consequences experienced by the users of the services. The authors ask which combinations of governance structures, service sector providers, and user choice give the best results for active citizenship. Promoting Active Citizenship will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Public Administration and Management, Non-Profit Management, Social Policy, Innovation in Public Service, Social Care and Education and School Research. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Peter A. Kraus,Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110456141

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The Challenge of Minority Integration by Peter A. Kraus,Peter Kivisto Pdf

How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing social arrangements? These two fundamental questions are explored in this edited collection, which examines the challenges of minority integration in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. These nations represent paradigmatic examples of social democratic welfare states that place a premium on a robust package of social rights, combined with policies aimed at reducing levels of class-based inequality and promoting gender equity. All four of these nations have witnessed growing levels of diversity due to immigration and three of them have been forced to rethink their policies concerning the indigenous Sámi, as well as old minority groups. Two introductory chapters, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Peter Kivisto, serve as a conceptual framework for the seven case studies that follow, and which, from a variety of perspectives and with differing emphases, analyze the evolving realities in these nations today. Taken together, they offer evidence of the critical issues surrounding attempts to achieve solidarity while valorizing diversity.

Author : Trygve Ugland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487517380

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Policy Learning from Canada by Trygve Ugland Pdf

Focusing on the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, Policy Learning from Canada is a systematic study of the international relevance of the Canadian immigration and integration policy model. To reveal how the Canadian immigration model has shaped the reform process in Scandinavia, Trygve Ugland critically examines public documents, including government proposals, documents from parliamentary debates, and reports by ad-hoc expert commissions, as well as letters from consulted agencies. Ugland’s intensive studies on Canada’s immigration and integration policies depict Canada not only as a model and inspiration to Scandinavian policy makers, but, in particular, as an intellectual stimulus for the rediscovery of labour immigration in Scandinavia during the 2000s. The study demonstrates that the Canadian model, often perceived as a product of unique circumstances, can be relevant in other countries.