Fafo: Nordic street-level integration work
Integration
Fafo invites you to the launch of the special issue Nordic Street-Level Integration Work, published in the journal Nordic Welfare Research | Nordisk välfärdsforskning. This seminar will highlight how street-level bureaucracy theory contributes to understanding integration practices in the Nordic welfare context.
Program Schedule
Welcome and introduction: Hanne C. Kavli, managing director, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
Presentation of the special issue:
- Silje Andresen, researcher, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
- Maria G. Volckmar-Eeg, researcher, Fafo (on leave) / program leader, Program for Employability, The Area Initiatives in Oslo
Presentations of the articles:
- Inter-organizational encounters in resettlement: Nerina Weiss, researcher, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
- The People’s School as a repatriation politics institution: Nanna Enemark, assistant professor, Aalborg University
- Trust, institutional encounters and forced migrants – the role of third-party actors: Liselott Sundbäck, project researcher, Åbo Akademi University
- Emotional Labour of Finnish Career Counsellors as Street-Level Integrators: Miika Petteri Kekki, lecturer in education, Institute of Education and Skills, University of Derby
- Governing diversity at the frontline: Andrea Spehar, senior lecturer, University of Gothenburg
- Refugees at the welfare state’s frontline: Rasmus Sandy Harboesgaard Nielsen, PhD candidate, OsloMet
How does the implementation differ among the Nordic countries?
Panel debate with the five contributors. Moderated by Guri Tyldum, research professor, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research
Closing Remarks by Maria G. Volckmar-Eeg and Silje Andresen