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Acknowledgements and general background
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Ingår i: Reaching a state of hope. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789187351235 ; , s. 7-26
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ between different nation-states? How are migrants and refugees met? Conflicting opinions on migration are not new. History gives ample examples of varying solutions and views.In Reaching a State of Hope, the authors shed new light on refugee and labour immigration to twentieth-century Sweden. They focus on themes such as refugee policies, and refugee relief and reception. The discourse on the relation between refugees, labour migration, immigration, and the trade unions is another focus of this anthology. The essays are set against the background of the Swedish welfare state, from its first emergence before the Second World War until the 1990s. In 1930, Sweden had a population where only a fragment had foreign backgrounds, but seventy years later it had become a country of notable immigration.This is the first time historians have taken up the challenge of presenting the Swedish experience to an international audience, with distinguished Swedish and international historians collaborating to put the Swedish case into a European context. Reaching a State of Hope is a significant contribution to the field of European migration history, and will make invaluable reading for scholars of history as well as anyone interested in migration politics and issues related to international migration and welfare states.Contributors: Klas Åmark, Mikael Byström, Frank Caestecker, Pär Frohnert, Christina Johansson, Jesper Johansson, Georg Kreis, Karin Kvist Geverts, Attila Lajos, Paul A. Levine, Louise London, Cecilia Notini Burch, Pontus Rudberg, Johan Svanberg, Malin Thor Thureby, Zeki Yalcin.
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- Frohnert, Pär, 1956-
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Introduction I : Perspectives on Swedish refugee policy, 1933-45
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Ingår i: Reaching a state of hope. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789187351235 ; , s. 29-38
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- International migration and migrants have long been among the most debated topics in Europe and around the globe. How do immigrant policies differ between different nation-states? How are migrants and refugees met? Conflicting opinions on migration are not new. History gives ample examples of varying solutions and views.In Reaching a State of Hope, the authors shed new light on refugee and labour immigration to twentieth-century Sweden. They focus on themes such as refugee policies, and refugee relief and reception. The discourse on the relation between refugees, labour migration, immigration, and the trade unions is another focus of this anthology. The essays are set against the background of the Swedish welfare state, from its first emergence before the Second World War until the 1990s. In 1930, Sweden had a population where only a fragment had foreign backgrounds, but seventy years later it had become a country of notable immigration.This is the first time historians have taken up the challenge of presenting the Swedish experience to an international audience, with distinguished Swedish and international historians collaborating to put the Swedish case into a European context. Reaching a State of Hope is a significant contribution to the field of European migration history, and will make invaluable reading for scholars of history as well as anyone interested in migration politics and issues related to international migration and welfare states.Contributors: Klas Åmark, Mikael Byström, Frank Caestecker, Pär Frohnert, Christina Johansson, Jesper Johansson, Georg Kreis, Karin Kvist Geverts, Attila Lajos, Paul A. Levine, Louise London, Cecilia Notini Burch, Pontus Rudberg, Johan Svanberg, Malin Thor Thureby, Zeki Yalcin.
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National Relations : Public diplomacy, national identity and the Swedish Institute 1945-1970
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis considers the first twenty-five years of the semi-governmental Swedish Institute for Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries. Specifically, this is done through an analysis of the Institute’s funding, its policy discussions and its produced materials. The history of the actors involved shows how Swedish public diplomacy was characterised by contending notions of political, commercial and cultural representation. Different organisations and groups claimed to represent the nation in different ways at different times. The history of prevailing ideas at the Institute shows how the communication of Sweden was not simply conceived of as a process of manipulation or as an altruistic engagement with humankind. Rather, it promised potential solutions to a wide array of problems. And although scholarly enlightenment and neutral information were held up as ideals, these were discourses that attributed power and influence to certain groups of experts and particular societal interests. The history of the produced narratives shows how notions of Sweden’s uniqueness were closely related to changing ideals of normalcy. Different methods were used to communicate the nation as something appealing rather than as something imposing. They changed along with economic, political and social processes at the national and global level. The thesis draws attention to how Sweden in the post-war world had to be popularly communicated in the wake of democratisation and trends towards internationalisation. At the same time, such communication increasingly became the domain of professionals in advertising, public relations and marketing. It also argues that transnational discourses of science and associated international hegemonic interpretations of modernity provided specific models for how Sweden was imagined and theorised. For this reason, the planned and professionalised communication of the nation became a crucial part of legitimising its continued existence.
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