Migration, Family and the Welfare State

Karen Fog Olwig is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her main research has examined the role of family relations in migration processes in the Caribbean, North America and Europe, working with narrative analysis of life stories. Birgitte Romme Larsen gained her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011, and is now an external lecturer there. Her research focused on the role of ‘the family’ and domestic routines in integration process involving refugee families settled in rural Denmark. Mikkel Rytter is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He has done extensive research on family and marriage among Pakistanis in Denmark. His current research is concerned with Sufism and transnational spirituality.

1. ‘Integration’ - Migrants and Refugees between Family Relations and Scandinavian Welfare Societies Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2. Money or Education: Strategies of improvement among Pakistani families in Denmark Mikkel Rytter, Aarhus University, Denmark 3. Multicultural ideology and transnational family ties among descendants of Cape Verdeans in Sweden Lisa Åkeson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 4. From Danish Yugoslavs to Danish Serbs: National affiliation stuck between visibility and invisibility Kristine Juul, Roskilde University, Denmark 5. Law and Identity: Transnational Arranged Marriages and the Boundaries of Danishness Garbi Schmidt, Roskilde University, Denmark 6. Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden Marita Eastmond, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 7. Ali’s disappearance – the tension of moving and dwelling in the Norwegian welfare society Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Norwegian Social Research 8. Tamil Refugees in Pain: Challenging Solidarity in the Norwegian Welfare State Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, University College of Lillehammer, Norway 9. Becoming part of Welfare Scandinavia: integration through the spatial dispersal of newly arrived refugees Birgitte Romme Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark