Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements / Eric Einhorn, Sherrill Harbison & Markus Huss
  1. Introduction / Eric Einhorn, Sherrill Harbison & Markus Huss
  
  The Politics of Immigration
• 2. Immigration to Scandinavian Welfare States in the Time of Pluralism / Grete Brochmann
• 3. Folkhemmet: “The People’s Home” as an Expression of Retrotopian Longing for Sweden Before the Arrival of Mass Migration / Andreas Önnerfors
• 4. Racing Home: Swedish Reception of Black/White Identity Politics in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
• 5. Racist Resurgences: How Neo-Liberal and Anti-Racist Lefts Make Space for the Far Right in Sweden and the United States / Carly Elizabeth Schall
• On the Ground
• 6. Coming to Terms with Belonging: Unemployed Migrants and Sociocultural Incorporation in Norway / Kelly Mckowen
• 7. Crisis and Pattern During the 2015-6 “Refugee Crisis” in Sweden / Admir Skodo
• 8. Contesting National Identity as a Racial Signifier: Mixed-race Identity in Norway and Sweden / Sayaka Osanami TÖrngren and Tony Sandset
• 9. Managing Multicultural Tenants: Rental Agreements and Feminist Qualms in AuÐur JÓnsdÓttir’s Deposit and Vigdis Hjorth’s A House in Norway / Elisabeth Oxfeldt
• 10. Swedish Identity and the Literary Imaginary / Peter Leonard
• 11. The Issue of Land Rights in Contemporary SÁmi Literature, Art and Music / Anne Heith
• 12. Afro-Swedish Renaissance / Ryan Thomas Skinner
  
  Inheritance
• 13. Within our Borders: SÁmi Mobilization, the Scandinavian Response, and World War II / Ellen Ahlness
• 14. Denmark in Miniature: The Interplay of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Exoticismin Copenhagen’s Tivoli / Julie K. Allen
• 15. “Musicians Find ‘Utopia’ In Denmark”: African American Jazz Expatriates / Ethelene Whitmire
• 16. Finnish War Children in Sweden after World War II and Refugee Children of Today / Barbara Mattsson
  
  17. Afterword / Sherrill Harbison

About the Author

Eric Einhorn is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sherrill Harbison is a senior lecturer emerita at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was director of Scandinavian studies for twelve years. Markus Huss is an assistant professor of German in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch, and German at Stockholm University.

Reviews

"This concise book effectively contributes to a more profound understanding of multicultural elements in Scandinavia. The volume brings together researchers from a variety of fields. The book is intrinsically interdisciplinary."--Nordic Journal of Migration Research