Scandinavian countries are generally associated with extensive public services and low levels of poverty. However, reality has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and Scandinavia's cities now share many of the problems and challenges familiar from other Western cities. How do the welfare states handle these global societal transformations? In Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities, researchers highlight the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities. They offer theoretical and empirical analyses of how migration, inequality, and residential segregation intersect with shifting national and local policies, charting their impact on urban landscapes in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The authors challenge the standard view of Scandinavia as a haven of equality and peace. Unemployment, criminality, and poor school performance in ethnically and socio-economically segregated residential areas have finally been recognized and tackled through urban policies since the 1990s. In this book we learn why and in which ways progress is being made.

About the Author
Magnus Johanson has a PhD in Pedagogy and is a Lecturer in Climate studies. He is Head of the Section of built environment at the Department of Urban Studies at Malmoe University, Sweden.

Erica Righard, PhD, is a Willy Brandt research fellow at Malmoe Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), and a senior lecturer at the Departement of Social Work, both at Malmoe University.

Tapio Salonen is a Professor in Social Studies and Dean at Malmoe University.


Book Information
ISBN 9789187675737
Author Erica Righard
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint Nordic Academic Press
Publisher Nordic Academic Press