The civic turn of immigrant integration policies in the Scandinavian welfare states

Karin Borevi; Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen; Per Mouritsen

doi:10.1186/s40878-017-0052-4

The civic turn of immigrant integration policies in the Scandinavian welfare states

Karin Borevi, Kristian Kriegbaum Jensen, Per Mouritsen

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This special issue addresses the question of how to understand the civic turn within immigrant integration in the West towards programs and instruments, public discourses and political intentions, which aim to condition, incentivize, and shape through socialization immigrants into ‘citizens’. Empirically, it focuses on the less studied Scandinavian cases of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. In this introduction,we situate the contributions to this special issue within the overall debate on civic integration and convergence. We introduce the three cases, critically discuss the (liberal) convergence thesis and its descriptive and explanatory claims, and explain why studying the Scandinavian welfare states can further our understanding of the nature of the civic turn and its driving forces. Before concluding, we discuss whether civic integration policies actually work.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Journal	Comparative Migration Studies
Volume	5:9
Issue	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-017-0052-4
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2017

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Civic integration
Convergence
Immigrant integration
Public philosophy
Scandinavia

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