Forced cooperation from above: the case of Sweden's establishment reform

Lidén, Gustav; Nyhlén, Jon; Nyhlén, Sara

doi:10.1080/01442872.2015.1089983

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“…The study also shows the importance of trust (Klijn, ) and the exchange of resources as vital aspects of a well‐functioning network. The study also highlights, as previous studies have also shown, the problem with parallel structures, in this case parallel networks, which result in unclear lines of responsibility (Lidén et al., ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…It has been argued that networks are an important phenomenon in both governance and public policy theory in different policy sectors (see, e.g., Christopoulos & Ingold, ; Henry, ; Lidén, Nyhlén & Nyhlén, ; McGinnis, ; Petridou, ). The concept of governance is used to describe how society is organized, how it is governed and who is involved.…”

Section: Governance Risk and Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Networks are typically described as self‐organizing or created and coordinated by the state, in which the actors come together and use one another's resources (Sørensen & Torfing, ; : 197; Lidén et al., ). Networks are driven by different sets of resources, and they are often considered to be relatively independent and regarded as an alternative means to hierarchical control of regulating the market (see, e.g., Rhodes , ; Carlsson, ; Torfing, ).…”

Section: Governance Risk and Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Organization and Decision‐Making in Enforced Networks: The River Groups in Northern Sweden

Olausson

Nyhlén

2017

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This paper examines the Swedish experience of network governance in managing flooding and high flows in Swedish rivers. The aim is to study the networks' organizations and approaches to decision making, and the focus of the paper is on the regional responsibility for coordinating risk awareness and risk analysis in terms of information, prevention and actions. We argue that the absence of central guidelines in the organization of the networks and the fact that the networks are enforced by the government rather than spontaneously formed by participants have resulted in different solutions in terms of focus, organization and decision making, with implications for the networks' effectiveness and the exchange of experience among the networks. These differences and their effects are analyzed in this paper. The study concludes that as a consequence of the vague instructions from the government, the River Groups differ in terms of both decision making and organization, which affect the internal work and organization of the groups. The conclusions reached here are based on interviews with the coordinators of the county administrative boards, complemented by a document study and a literature review.

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Section: Governance Risk and Watermentioning

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Organization and Decision‐Making in Enforced Networks: The River Groups in Northern Sweden

Olausson

Nyhlén

2017

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“…Legislative changes concerning refugee settlement increased the pressure on Swedish municipalities to develop strategies for refugee reception and integration. Until recently, each municipality has had the autonomy to decide for itself whether it would receive refugees (Lidén & Nyhlén 2015) through a voluntary agreement with the county administrative board (i.e., the local extension of the national government) regarding the number of refugees it would accept. Under this arrangement, local municipalities were able to base decisions on their individual circumstances, including the availability of housing, the potential for financial gain, the presence of values of humanism and refugee solidarity, as well as the level of support for the extreme right-wing political party, the Sweden Democrats (Bolin et al 2014; Lidén & Nyhlén 2014).…”

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Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden

Schmauch

Nygren

2020

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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The overall aim of this article is to explore the ways in which refugee reception and integration work is storied in the local newspapers of two rural municipalities in northern Sweden. Our results show that the strong emphasis on integration through employment present in national policy regimes is not readily visible in local media portrayals of integration. Instead, integration work is framed as a matter of commitment of individual refugees, volunteers and government administrative staff and, thus, as work with a high level of social support. We argue that the frame of commitment itself needs to be viewed in relation to the growing public support for limiting the resources available for this kind of work, as well as for the limitations for refugees to enter Sweden in the first place.

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“…However, Sweden has for long been one of the largest receivers of immigrants in the Western world and has since the late 1960s had policies for immigrants and integration. The system for the establishment of those receiving residence permit is today centralized to the national level (see, for example, Lidén et al 2015;Qvist 2016), but local and regional authorities, as well as NGOs, are still working with issues of integration on a local level. What this integration is supposed to look like, and what measures will lead to that goal, is however not obvious.…”

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Knocking on the Doors of Integration: Swedish Integration Policy and the Production of a National Space

Grip

2019

Int. Migration & Integration

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This article contributes to theoretical discussions on how immigrant integration is produced as a part of redefining national policy to local everyday practice, and what this tells us about the society in which the policy is formed. Integration is from this perspective a way to understand imagined social communities, how they are produced, who is considered to belong, and who is not. Document analysis and interviews with immigrants, local politicians, and officials in small-and medium-sized Swedish towns give insights into both what taken-for-granted assumptions the integration policy builds on and reproduces, and what consequences the integration policy have for the persons the policy is intended for. It is shown that the Swedish integration policy is itself a part of the production of a Swedish space as a container with closed doors, where immigrants are not given equal access and possibilities. This is created by putting sameness and difference at the core of the integration policy and by describing integration as an act of entering the Swedish space.

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Forced cooperation from above: the case of Sweden's establishment reform

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Organization and Decision‐Making in Enforced Networks: The River Groups in Northern Sweden

Organization and Decision‐Making in Enforced Networks: The River Groups in Northern Sweden

Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden

Knocking on the Doors of Integration: Swedish Integration Policy and the Production of a National Space

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