2014
DOI: 10.1093/rsq/hdt020
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"Our Refugee Policy is Generous": Reflections on the Importance of a State's Self-Image

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“…Malmö has a complex and ethnically diverse migrant landscape – where the movement of different groups are constructed in and between several overlapping political, social, and economic spheres. For the past 30 years, the Swedish government has attempted to cultivate an identity of a humanitarian state welcoming migrants and people from war torn countries (Stern, ). This is reflected in Malmö's population where 40% of the city's population has a foreign background, 30% are born abroad (Malmö Stad Statistiska Centralbyrån, ), and migrants arrive from countries such as Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iran .…”
Section: The Migration Landscape In Malmömentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Malmö has a complex and ethnically diverse migrant landscape – where the movement of different groups are constructed in and between several overlapping political, social, and economic spheres. For the past 30 years, the Swedish government has attempted to cultivate an identity of a humanitarian state welcoming migrants and people from war torn countries (Stern, ). This is reflected in Malmö's population where 40% of the city's population has a foreign background, 30% are born abroad (Malmö Stad Statistiska Centralbyrån, ), and migrants arrive from countries such as Iraq, the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iran .…”
Section: The Migration Landscape In Malmömentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Together, these problems have often resulted in putting the city at the centre of local, national, and international media debates about migration, integration, and crime. In addition, after the election in 2010 of a populist right wing‐party with xenophobic views to the Swedish national parliament, there has also been growing concern over rising nationalistic sentiment in Sweden (Stern, ).…”
Section: The Migration Landscape In Malmömentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This contrasts with the more muscular approach by the US that focused on counter‐terrorism and preventative interventions, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Swedish approach to immigration traditionally emphasized asylum and the benefits of migration with large numbers of refugees from the Balkans in the 1990s (Stern, ). While Sweden's approach gained it the reputation for the most generous immigration policy in Europe, Stern argues that this self‐image conflicts with Sweden's forced repatriations since 2001.…”
Section: Case Selectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A better understanding of the reasons to live, to work or to study in the European Union instead of another region or continent as determinants of the interregional migration flows labels the expanding edges of the amount of social assistance and support the migrants receive in their home and/ or destination country (Bonasia & Napolitano, 2012) is associated in the EU live hood conditions and the member state's self-image (Stern, 2014).…”
Section: The Eu Health Policy Drivers and The Input Factors Of Migrationmentioning
confidence: 99%