1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001901749707536

Autore

International short Conference on Applied coastal research <5th ; 2011 ; Aachen>

Titolo

5th International SCACR (short Conference on Applied coastal research) : honouring professor Robert A. Dalrymple, Baltimore, United Satets : proceedings : 6th-9th June, 2011 : Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management RWTH Aachen University, Germany/ edited by Holger Schüttrumpf and Giuseppe Roberto Tomasicchio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aachen : Shaker, 2012

ISBN

9783844011326

Descrizione fisica

xii, 603 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Mitteilungen des Lehrstuhls und Instituts für Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft der RWTH Aachen ; 165

Altri autori (Persone)

Tomasicchio, Giuseppe Roberto

Schüttrumpf, Holger

Disciplina

577.51

Soggetti

Coastal developments - Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955212803321

Titolo

Migration, family and the welfare state : integrating migrants and refugees in Scandinavia / / edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen and Mikkel Rytter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-70439-2

0-415-75463-1

0-203-71865-8

1-135-70432-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LarsenBirgitte Romme

OlwigKaren Fog <1948->

RytterMikkel

Disciplina

303.48248

Soggetti

Assimilation (Sociology) - Scandinavia

Social integration - Scandinavia

Welfare state - Scandinavia

Immigrants - Scandinavia

Refugees - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Emigration and immigration

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1. 'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations; 2. Money or Education? Improvement Strategies Among Pakistani Families in Denmark; 3. Multicultural Ideology and Transnational Family Ties among Descendants of Cape Verdeans in Sweden; 4. From Danish Yugoslavs to Danish Serbs: National Affiliation Caught Between Visibility and Invisibility; 5. Law and Identity: Transnational Arranged Marriages and the Boundaries of Danishness

6. Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden7. Ali's Disappearance: The Tension of



Moving and Dwelling in the Norwegian Welfare Society; 8. Tamil Refugees in Pain: Challenging Solidarity in the Norwegian Welfare State; 9. Becoming Part of Welfare Scandinavia: Integration through the Spatial Dispersal of Newly Arrived Refugees in Denmark; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the three receiving societies, studying how these are experienced by migrant and refugee families as they seek to realize the hopes and ambitions for a better life that led them to leave their country of origin. The three Scandinavian countries have had parallel histories as welfare societies