Everyday Hospitality and Politics
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24022Date
2021-12-02Type
Journal articleTidsskriftartikkel
Peer reviewed
Abstract
The article explores everyday hospitality and politics through inclusive forms of
integration initiatives in everyday life and urban communities in Denmark and
Norway. It investigates how local initiatives and creative social strategies by local
actors can empower and include refugees and immigrants in local communities.
This article is based on participant observations of urban communities in Denmark
and Norway working to welcome refugees and create new cross-cultural meeting
places. We argue that people mobilize and take action when faced with emergency,
and that the many welcome initiatives organized around theatre, food, dance and
music can rework difference. The cases relate to the discussion of hospitality,
the production of meaningful meeting places in a local context and the embodied
encounters promoted by these activities. This article discusses everyday hospitality and politics in light of the transition in the Nordic welfare states, which has
made the debate around inclusion of refugees and immigrants in local communities
and the welfare state centre.
Publisher
Helsinki University PressCitation
Kofoed, Simonsen, Førde. Everyday Hospitality and Politics. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 2021;11(4):444-458Metadata
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