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

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