The Scientific Journal Nordic Welfare Research
The scientific journal Nordic Welfare Research | Nordic Welfare Research publishes articles about various welfare policy themes, such as the circumstances and living conditions of the population, working life and integration, social services, health care, public health, disability issues, and alcohol and drug policy. The journal was established in 2016.
The scientific journal is published by Universitetsforlaget AS (Scandinavian University Press), Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning and Velferdsforskningsinstituttet NOVA – OsloMet, on behalf of the Nordic Welfare Centre. Three-four issues are published per year; these include texts in Danish, Dutch, English, Norwegian and Swedish.
The journal is an interdisciplinary scientific journal. It publishes research-based articles based on empirical and/or theoretical analyses of high academic quality. The journal is aimed at researchers and academics, students, political and administrative decision-makers, professionals, interest groups, the media and the public.
The Editorial Board
- Sven Bremberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sverige
- Trine Wulf-Andersen, Roskilde Universitet, Danmark
- Snæfríður Þóra Egilson, Universitetet i Island
- Helena Blomberg-Kroll, Helsingfors universitet
- John Eriksen, Nordlandsforskning, Norge
Latest issue
4/2025
Guest Editorial
Nordic Street-Level Integration Work
Silje Andresen and Maria G. Volckmar-Eeg
Articles
Unfolding the Broader Trust Landscape of Institutional Encounters Between Forced Migrants and the Welfare States of Finland and Sweden: The Role of Third-Party Actors
Liselott Sundbäck and Camilla Nordberg
Frontline Experiences of Newly Arrived Refugees in Norway and Denmark
Karen N. Breidahl, Anne Britt Djuve, Hanne C. Kavli, Christian Albrekt Larsen and Rasmus Sandy Harboesgaard Nielsen
Governing Diversity at the Frontline: The Dual Logics of Cultural Sensitivity and Assimilation in Sweden
Andrea Spehar
Interorganizational Decision-Making in Norwegian Refugee Resettlement
Ragna Lillevik, Nerina Weiss and Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Street-Level Integration Work with Temporary Migrant Students: “The joker is always whether they would prefer to go home”
Nanna Ramsing Enemark