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Learning to live in a new country – Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective
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Immigration & development, Social work
7 Oct 2020
The Nordic countries have varying experience of receiving and integrating refugees and other immigrants into our societies. Settling in a new country is a learning process that can be greatly facilitated by the help of civil society.
In this report we focus on three of the main ways civil society can play a role in the integration of refugees and immigrants.
The leading question we seek to answer is as follows. Are the ways in which civil society engages different in rural areas and in smaller communities around the Nordic Region, as compared with urban areas and large cities?
We use evidence from interviews and transcripts with migration workers as our starting point. We then focus on the role of a) religious communities and aid organisations, b) sport organisations and clubs, c) pop-up activism and mentorship programmes from available literature and from Nordic seminars and dialogue.
We will also focus on partnerships and forms of coordination between civil society organisations, municipalities and regions.
Learning to live in a new country - Civil society and integration – Nordic rural perspective
