Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: The Case of Denmark

Kærgård, Niels

doi:10.1177/1468796810378323

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“…Se puede afirmar que la población inmigrante usa de forma grupal mucho más que la población nativa los parques urbanos (Kaergård, 2010). Las interacciones en la vida diaria entre personas de distinto origen étnico son un modo de crear cohesión social, y generar una base para los vínculos sociales entre los individuos (Marshall & Stolle, 2004).…”

Section: Integración Y Vulnerabilidad Socialunclassified

La dimensión social de la Infraestructura Verde. Una revisión sobre el bienestar socioambiental en el espacio metropolitano

Iglesias‐Pascual

García

2021

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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Los estudios que abordan la dimensión social de los espacios que albergan la función ecológica en el ámbito urbano se han centrado fundamentalmente en el análisis local de los espacios verdes. Sin embargo, la dimensión social de las Infraestructuras Verdes (IV) como conjunto de espacios libres a escala metropolitana ha sido un aspecto poco analizado. Este artículo a partir de una metodología de búsqueda inmersiva de 123 documentos y 539 casos de estudios desarrolla una revisión crítica de los principales aspectos analizados sobre el impacto social de la IV. Nuestros resultados muestran desde el punto de vista metodológico, como el predominante carácter cualitativo y local de estos estudios, dificulta generalizar sus resultados a escala metropolitana. A su vez, la creciente complejidad del espacio urbano hace necesario focalizar el análisis de la dimensión social de la IV desde la escala metropolitana, prestando especial atención a las percepciones ciudadanas y una gestión de los espacios verdes más descentralizada de cara a asegurar el bienestar socioambiental ciudadano.

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Section: Integración Y Vulnerabilidad Socialunclassified

La dimensión social de la Infraestructura Verde. Una revisión sobre el bienestar socioambiental en el espacio metropolitano

Iglesias‐Pascual

García

2021

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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“…With the exception of the very thinly populated North Atlantic territories of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Denmark has been a nation with only one language and no ethnic minorities since 1864 (Kaegard, 2010). Unlike ethnic homogeneity in Japan, ethnic homogeneity in Denmark is supported by facts detailed by Kaergard (2010). This homogeneity has not always been at the fore in immigration policymaking.…”

Section: The Idea Of Homogeneity In Denmarkmentioning

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“…A key reason for Japan's lack of civic integration policy is that Denmark is a 'civic nation' while Japan would be an 'ethnic nation', according to Kaergard's (2010) classification. Kaergard provides a detailed discussion of why he considers Denmark to be a civic nation.…”

Section: Nihonjinron a Discourse On Japan's Cultural Uniquenessmentioning

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The Emphasis on Ethnic Homogeneity and Japanese and Danish Immigration Policy

Morita¹

2019

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This essay compares the Japanese emphasis on ethnic homogeneity in immigration policy with its counterpart inDenmark. Japan’s lack of integration policy stands out against the backdrop of Denmark’s elaborate civic integrationpolicy. A key reason for this contrast is the criterion that Japan is for the Japanese, and one has to be ethnically andculturally Japanese to be Japanese. Nihonjinron, a discourse on Japanese cultural uniqueness, has providedammunition for this. Denmark, on the other hand, is in principle open to those who adopt Danish values. Japan needsa strong integration policy as the number of immigrants increase. Until now, its emphasis on ethnic homogeneity hasled Japan to see immigrants as outsiders and to exclude them. Denmark, on the other hand, is willing to includeimmigrants on equal terms, on the condition that they adopt Danish values.

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“…For instance, the hegemonic discourse prevailing across the political spectrum in Denmark intends democracy as the expression of a homogeneous, organicist and solidaristic community, the Danish people (Haahr, 2003). Given Denmark’s historical legacy as a highly homogenous society, at least until the 1960s (Kærgård, 2010), an ethnic majoritarian vision still permeates political discourses implying exclusive unifying traits which serve as boundary markers and, in the end, have led to a backlash against multiculturalism (Hedetoft, 2010). Majoritarian conceptions of democracy as based on a single homogeneous people also clash with the accepted, but contrasting, wisdom that there is no homogeneous European people (Haahr, 2003).…”

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Between the hammer of globalization and the anvil of nationalism: Is Europe's complex diversity under threat?

Conversi

2013

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Cultural diversity is very often conceived in relationship with the nation-state, but rarely problematized in tandem with transnational forces like political and economic globalization. The article begins by recognizing the need, and the difficulty, of studying both these forces simultaneously in relation to cultural diversity. As a supranational set of institutions, the European Union provides an ideal framework in which to assess the simultaneous impact of the nation-state and globalization on cultural diversity. The EU unification project, based on a pluralist, multicultural and multilateral vision of Europe, is diametrically opposed to previous state-making practices centred on rigid notions of internal uniformity and gravitating around the practices of 'nation-statism'. This article first proposes the notion of 'cultural homogenization' as an explanatory tool to identify the role of normative visions of culture associated with the nationalizing practices of most modern nation-states. It then connects this to the scholarly literature on 'nationbuilding' and focuses particularly on its critique within theories of nationalism. This in turn is associated with various resurrected pluralist arrangements which have emerged in Europe, like cultural autonomy, multiculturalism and particularly, 'consociationalism'. However, the article identifies a more immediate challenge to cultural diversity in the de-regulative policies associated with neo-liberal globalization. It concludes that, although European consociationalism remains a well-established and time-honoured tool for stabilizing inter-cultural relations and maintaining pluralist coexistence, it does not, and cannot, provide an incentive and framework for accommodating the normative and cultural conflicts unleashed by neo-liberal globalization.

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Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: The Case of Denmark

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

La dimensión social de la Infraestructura Verde. Una revisión sobre el bienestar socioambiental en el espacio metropolitano

La dimensión social de la Infraestructura Verde. Una revisión sobre el bienestar socioambiental en el espacio metropolitano

The Emphasis on Ethnic Homogeneity and Japanese and Danish Immigration Policy

Between the hammer of globalization and the anvil of nationalism: Is Europe's complex diversity under threat?

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