Nordic brothers before strange others

Pan-national boundary making in the post-war naturalization policies of the Nordic countries

Bibliographic Data

ID2147288
AuthorsMats Wickström (0000-0003-0571-3790, Åbo Akademi University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue4
Pages675-693
Publication date2017-03-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1181269
OpenAlexW2549276766
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited7

The naturalization policies of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway differentiate between non-Nordic and Nordic citizens. Nordic citizens can obtain citizenship in other Nordic countries by notification, and the residency requirement for naturalization by application is considerably lower for Nordic citizens than it is for non-Nordic applicants. The privileges of Nordic citizens in the naturalization policies of the Nordic countries is a heritage of nineteenth-century pan-Scandinavianism, continued and expanded upon with post-war Nordism. Nordism, the idea of a common Nordic culture and community, has ideologically underpinned the establishment of a pan-national Nordist citizenship regime that constructs ethno-culturally close Nordic brothers as more belonging in the Nordic countries than alien, 'non-Nordic', others. The article explores change and continuity in pan-national Nordic boundary making by analysing the historical interplay between ideas on Scandinavian and Nordic kinship and naturalization policy in the Nordic countries

Alien · Citizenship · Ideology · Kinship · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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