The question of integration : immigration, exclusion and the Danish welfare state / edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Karsten Paerregaard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cultural construction of Danish society. Integrating Denmark: The welfare state as a National(ist) accomplishment / Steffen Jöhncke -- "The family of Denmark" and "the Aliens": Kinship images in Danish integration politics / Mikkel Rytter -- The paradox of integration: Excluding while claiming to integrate into Danish society / Inger Sjørslev -- Religion and integration: Three Danish models for the relationship between religion and society / Cecilie Rubow -- To be Danish and Muslim: Internalizing the stranger? / Tina Gudrun Jensen -- Contesting Danish civility: The cartoon crisis as transitional drama / Heiko Henkel -- Day-care in Denmark: The key to social integration / Helle Bundgaard -- Psychiatric patients with a Non-Danish ethnic background: Categorization in a Danish welfare institution / Katrine Schepelern Johansen -- Suffering for benefits? Integration and social exchange between Iraqi refugees and Danish welfare institutions / Sofie Danneskiold-Samsoe -- Caught in the grid of difference and gratitude: HIV positive Africans facing the challenges of Danish sociality / Hanne Overgaard Mogense -- The obligation to participate: Micro-integrative processes of civil sociality / Sally Anderson -- Integration, of the Folk and by the Folk / Richard Jenkins -- Danes and others / Ralph Grillo -- The multiple registers of immigrant reception: Comparative mythologies / Vered Amit.

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Revised and translated version of a previous Danish publication.

The question of integration has become an important concern as many societies are experiencing a growing influx of people from abroad. But what does integration really mean? What does it take for a person to be integrated in a society? Through a number of.

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