Contested hospitalities in a time of migration : religious and secular counterspaces in the Nordic region / edited by Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Trygve Wyller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bendixsen, Synnøve K. N., editor.

Wyller, Trygve, editor.

Series:

Religion, resistance, hospitalities.

Religion, resistance, hospitalities (RRH)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Scandinavia--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Hospitality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Hospitality.

Protestantism--Scandinavia.

Protestantism.

Ethnic relations.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Social conditions.

Scandinavia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Scandinavia.

Scandinavia--Ethnic relations.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 198 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans, it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies with interests in migration, civil society resistance and social values"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : contextualized hospitalities : migrants and the Nordic beyond the religious/secular binary / Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Trygve Wyller

Religious civil society and the national welfare state : secular reciprocity versus Christian charity / Lars Trägårdh

Defending the endangered nation : Nordic identitarian Christianism in the age of migration / Cathrine Thorleifsson and Anders Ravik Jupskås

Beacons of tolerance dimmed? : migration, criminalization, and inhospitality in welfare states / Katja Franko, Maartje van der Woude, and Vanessa Barker

Emergency care between state and civil society : the open clinic for irregular migrants / Kaspar Villadsen

"We can teach Swedes a lot!" : experiences of in/hospitality, space making, and the prospects of altered guest-host relations among migrant and non-migrant Christians in the Church of Sweden / Kristina Helgesson Kjellin

Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland / Paula Merikoski

What about no-bodies? : embodied belonging, unspecific strangers, and religious hospitality in Norway / Helena Schmidt

Intertwined hospitalities in a Danish church / Laura Bjørg Serup Petersen

Between belonging and exclusion : migrants' resilience in a Norwegian welfare prison / Dorina Damsa

Hospitality in the hands of who? / Kaia Schultz Rønsdal

Conclusion : rethinking hospitality in the Nordic region / Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Trygve Wyller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780367222109

0367222108

OCLC:

1125310136