Nationhood and Scandinavian naturalization politics

Varieties of the Civic Turn

Bibliographic Data

ID7724905
AuthorsKristian Kriegbaum Jensen (0000-0003-2299-9516, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Christian Fernández (0000-0001-6907-6271, Malmö University), Grete Brochmann (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway)
Year2017
Volume21
Issue5
Pages606-624
Publication date2017-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2017.1330399
OpenAlexW2616398221
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited37

The neighboring countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway represent three very similar societies that differ markedly with respect to naturalization policy. While the general trend of a civic turn has brought about some of Europe’s strictest residence and citizenship requirements in Denmark, it has left the liberal Swedish policy largely untouched and the Norwegian somewhere in between the other two. How might such divergence in otherwise very similar societies be explained? This article investigates the role different conceptions of nationhood have played. It is argued that different conceptions of nationhood have mattered, but that the national differences have less to do with the normative content of nationhood than with how politicians tend to conceive of the integration process that newcomers must commit to in order to develop a strong sense of national belonging

Alien · Biopower · Citizenship · Immigration · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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