Assessing the Social Impact of Immigration in Europe

Edited by Jussi P. Laine, Professor of Multidisciplinary Border Studies, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Daniel Rauhut, Affiliated Researcher, Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and Research Associate, Institute for Applied Research of Ageing, Villach, Austria and Marika Gruber, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, School of Management, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Contents:

1 On the potential of immigration for the remote areas of
Europe: an introduction 1
Jussi P. Laine, Daniel Rauhut and Marika Gruber

PART I RECOGNITION, RENEGOTIATION,
REVITALISATION
2 Appropriate housing in rural and mountain areas? Current
structures and practices of access for immigrants – the
case of Alpine regions in Austria and Germany 27
Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger, Ingrid Machold and
Marika Gruber
3 Labour market shortages and exclusion practices: the
irrationalities of the labour markets and the legislation 44
Marika Gruber, Kathrin Zupan, Nuria del Olmo Vicén
and Raúl Lardiés-Bosque
4 Long-term needs to achieve social inclusionary pathways
for migrants 60
Ingrid Machold, Thomas Dax and Lisa Bauchinger
5 Russian-speaking immigrants’ vulnerable transnational
family lives on the border: the case of North Karelia 77
Pirjo Pöllänen, Lauri Havukainen and Olga
Davydova-Minguet
6 De/re/bordering remoteness in times of crisis: migration
for reterritorialization and revitalization of a remote region 93
Anna Krasteva
7 Migrating to Scottish insular communities: how
remoteness affects integration by shaping borders and identities 111
Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi and Simone Baglioni

PART II CHALLENGES FOR POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
8 The impact of foreign immigrants on the revitalization of
rural areas in Spain 130
Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo Vicén
9 Access to welfare policies by immigrants: comparing
centralized and decentralized governance in the examples
of Turkey and Spain 149
Põnar Uyan Semerci, Fatma Yõlmaz Elmas, Raœl LardiŽs
Bosque and Nuria Del Olmo-Vicén
10 The local turn in migrant practices in Turkey: Syrians in Bursa 166
Ayhan Kaya
11 Immigrant integration in Austria and Sweden:
a patchwork of multilevel governance and fragmented
responsibilities 183
Marika Gruber and Daniel Rauhut
12 ‘A spanner in the works’: exploring the relationship
between provision of welfare and integration in rural areas 201
Susanne Stenbacka and Tina Mathisen
13 Structures, trends and turning points of Norwegian and
Swedish integration policies 218
Ulf Hansson, Akin Deniz, Zuzana Macuchova and
Per Olav Lund
14 Conclusions: renegotiated remoteness and the social
impact of immigration 237
Daniel Rauhut, Jussi P. Laine and Marika Gruber

Index