Overview
- Presents timely research on two of the largest-scale refugee resettlement experiences faced by European countries in the past thirty years
- Provides a comparative perspective that fills a lacunae in refugee integration research
- Argues that the analysis of refugee experiences is crucial to understanding and improving institutional responses to integration
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.
It focuses on refugees’ interactions with key institutions of integration including language training, civic orientation, validation of previous educational experience, organizations and multiple labour market initiatives targeting refugees. Drawing on interviews with the refugees themselves, it offers a nuanced analysis of how the institutions of integration operate on a daily basis, and the effects they have on the lives of those who take part in them. The authors’ comparative approach highlights the particularities of each refugee movement while also revealing developments and persistent issues within institutions of integration in the intervening years between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian conflicts.
Its conclusion, which situates the Swedish case within the broader European context, demonstrates the wider significance of this timely study. It will provide a valuable resource for policymakers in addition to students and scholars of migration studies, social policy, and public policy and business administration.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Vedran Omanovic is Assistant Professor in the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Andrea Spehar is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre on Global Migration at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration
Book Subtitle: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden
Authors: Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanović, Andrea Spehar
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27249-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27248-7Published: 14 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27249-4Published: 06 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 130
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Social Policy, Public Policy, Conflict Studies, Sociology of Citizenship, Governance and Government