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Record Nr.

UNINA9910531956303321

Titolo

Reaching a state of hope : refugees, immigrants and the Swedish welfare state, 1930-2000 / / edited by Mikael Byström & Pär Frohnert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, Sweden : , : Nordic Academic Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

91-87351-58-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (604 p.)

Disciplina

325.485

Soggetti

Refugees - Government policy - Sweden

Immigrants - Government policy - Sweden

Public welfare - Sweden - History - 20th century

Immigrants - Sweden - History - 20th century

Refugees - Sweden - History - 20th century

Multiculturalism - Sweden

Foreign workers - Sweden

Electronic books.

Sweden Emigration and immigration Government policy

Sweden Social policy

Sweden Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements and general background; I PERSPECTIVES ON SWEDISH REFUGEE POLICY, 1933-45; Introduction I; 1. Sweden and the refugees, 1933-45; 2. A foreign element within the nation; II THE AGENTS OF REFUGEE POLICY AND RECEPTION, 1933-50; Introduction II; 3. The politics of Jewish refugee aid and relief work in Sweden; 4. Social-democratic solidarity; 5. The last bastion of Swedish refugee policy; 6. Raoul Wallenberg and Swedish humanitarian policy in Budapest; 7. Swedish Jews and the Jewish survivors

III REFUGEE POLICY IN THE SHADOW OF THE COLD WAR AND SWEDEN'S LABOUR SHORTAGEIntroduction III; 8. From contract workers to political



refugees; 9. Ethnic encounters, narratives, and counter-narratives; 10. Controlling the untrustworthy; IV DISCOURSES AND PRACTICE, 1960-2000; Introduction IV; 11. Union solidarity in exchange for adaptation; 12. LO and refugee immigration, 1973-82; 13. Beyond Swedish self-image; V INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSION; Introduction V; 14. The agenda of British refugee policy, 1933-48; 15. Pre-1945 refugee policy as a reference point for post-1945 policy

16. Sweden's exceptional ability to organize its immigrationAbbreviations; About the authors

Sommario/riassunto

Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysis examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did they come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were there between refugees and the "imported labor" that was essential to Swedish industry? A group of established Swedish and international historians answer these questions against the background of the eras passed: the Second World War, the Cold War, and the labor movement that shaped the national char