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Trouble in the homeland: How cultural identity and welfare politics merge in contemporary Danish and Swedish politics
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM).
Public Policy and Administration in the Department of Sociology and Research Associate at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9726-0903
2020 (English)In: Nostalgia and hope: Intersections between politics of culture, welfare, and migration in Europe / [ed] O. C. Norocel, A. Hellström & M. B. Jørgensen, Cham: Springer, 2020, p. 19-34Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter examines differences in the discourses on migration from two socio-economically similar countries—Denmark and Sweden. It employs the notion of conventional discourse to show how cultural identity and welfare politics intersect in the policy debates and blogospheres of the two countries. It also shows that a discursive shift had already occurred in the mainstream political discourse in Denmark before the 2015 refugee crisis—a discourse in which the dominant view is that cultural diversity is incompatible with social cohesion and thus a perceived threat to the welfare system. The same line of thinking is prevalent in Denmark’s blogosphere. In contrast, Sweden’s cultural issues have been consistently associated with redistributive policies in the mainstream political discourse, and these vary along the Left versus Right ideological cleavage. However, in Sweden’s blogosphere, welfare chauvinism and opposition to multiculturalism appear to be equally as strong as in Denmark.

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Cham: Springer, 2020. p. 19-34
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IMISCOE Research Series, ISSN 2364-4087, E-ISSN 2364-4095
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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-59621DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41694-2_2ISBN: 978-3-030-41693-5 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-41696-6 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-41695-9 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-41694-2 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-59621DiVA, id: diva2:1733696
Available from: 2023-02-02 Created: 2023-02-02 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved

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