Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration: Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

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This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans, it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies with interests in migration, civil society resistance and social values. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: Contextualized hospitalities: Migrants and the Nordic beyond the religious/secular binary Exploring hospitalities in a time of change Welfare state regimes, restriction politics, and projects opposing restriction Nordic hospitality? Non-binary hospitalities? Outline of the book Acknowledgements References Part I Exploring the Nordic context Chapter 2 Religious civil society and the national welfare state: Secular reciprocity versus Christian charity The Nordic social contract: Social trust and the moral economy of reciprocity The charity logic in the Nordic context: On the peculiarities of Nordic civil society From national welfare state to moral superpower: The revival of the charity logic The Lutheran legacy: Taxes, reciprocity, and statism From state church to religious civil society organization Statist individualism vs civil society communitarianism References Chapter 3 Defending the endangered nation: Nordic identitarian Christianism in the age of migration Introduction Theoretical approaches The emergence of identitarian Christianism in Sweden and Norway The Sweden Democrats and identitarian Christianism The Progress Party and identitarian Christianism Conclusion References Chapter 4 Beacons of tolerance dimmed? Migration, criminalization, and inhospitality in welfare states Introduction Tolerance/intolerance: A closer look at the duality Challenging the orthodoxy Migration, criminal justice, and the politics of exclusion The paradox explained ‘Hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside’? References Chapter 5 Emergency care between state and civil society: The open clinic for irregular migrants The health conditions of irregular migrants The clinic for irregular migrants in Copenhagen Conclusion References Part II Reconfiguring migrantscapes in religious and ‘secular’ Nordic civil society Chapter 6 “We can teach Swedes a lot!”: Experiences of in/hospitality, space making, and the prospects of altered guest–host relations among migrant and non-migrant Christians in the Church of Sweden Introduction The role of the Church of Sweden Studying hospitality Segregation, diversity, and the role of the church The importance of negotiation, explanation, and translation The sharing of food Differences in hospitality and space Conclusion References Chapter 7 Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland Introduction Pro-asylum mobilization in Finland Interviews with hosts Seeking asylum in the Nordic welfare state ‘We are doing this together’ Hospitality that blurs the public and private divide Power relations and boundaries in the shared home Conclusions References Chapter 8 What about no-bodies? Embodied belonging, unspecific strangers, and religious hospitality in Norway Introduction Connecting belonging and the stranger People must eat to survive: Investigating belonging through hospitality No choice – questionable guests Touch and conditional hospitality The stranger Disposability and hunger Foodways and strangers Citizenship, embodiment, and no-bodies Transcending belonging The embodied stranger and a different kind of belonging Concluding remarks: Deconstructing the stranger and thinking about citizenship References Chapter 9 Intertwined hospitalities in a Danish church Introduction A local church in a multicultural neighbourhood A spatial quest for an ambiguous concept of hospitality Intertwined spaces of hospitalities References Chapter 10 Between belonging and exclusion: Migrants’ resilience in a Norwegian welfare prison Introduction Exclusion, belonging, and sovereign power Resilience Kongsvinger prison Mobility as resilience Solidarity as resilience Making a home at Kongsvinger The ambivalence of Kongsvinger prison Possibilities References Chapter 11 Hospitality in the hands of who? Introduction The Arctic route The Arctic borderlands Borderland encounter ‘Without civil engagement […] everyone would have been deported’ Holding the other in your hand? Calling hospitality beyond the hands? Conclusion References Chapter 12 Conclusion: Rethinking hospitality in the Nordic region Rethinking hospitality? Beyond the religious/secular binary The relationship between voluntary organizations and the welfare state References Index