ISBN : 9782296552432
REPRESENTATIONS OF'MIGRANT' AND'INTEGRATION' IN FINNISH DISCO
1. Introduction Recent global changes (migration, globalisation, transnationalism) have led to increasing diversification in European societies (Vertovec 2006), including Finland. The cultural and social super-diversity of societies previously characterized as homogeneous has brought about different perceptions and constructions of participation, identity and societal membership, and ultimately, forms of integration. Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska (2003) distinguish between two responses to diversity which they characterise as "official multiculturalism" and "de facto multiculturalism". De facto multiculturalism is more widespread in European states, and considered to be the pragmatic response of the state to immigration, in pursuit of its own interests. Official multiculturalism...