Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Changing Social Risks and Social Policy Responses in the Nordic Welfare States

   • Ivan Harsløf, Rickard Ulmestig

   Pages 1-24

3. Changing Population Profiles and Social Risk Structures in the Nordic Countries

   • Ivan Harsløf, Simone Scarpa, Synøve Nygaard Andersen

   Pages 25-49

4. Welfare State Support of Lone Parents — Nordic Approaches to a Complex and Ambiguous Policy Issue

   • Mia Hakovirta, Susan Kuivalainen, Minna Rantalaiho

   Pages 50-74

5. Working Time Policy Change and New Social Risks

   • Uffe Enokson

   Pages 75-91

6. The Growing Emphasis on Social Citizenship in Nordic Education: Inducing New Social Risks While Trying to Alleviate Them

   • Alexandru Panican

   Pages 92-112

7. Structural Unemployment as a New Social Risk in the Nordic Countries — A Critical Reassessment

   • Christian Albrekt Larsen

   Pages 113-139

8. Fighting Risks with Risks: Self-Employment and Social Protection in the Nordic Welfare States

   • Rickard Ulmestig

   Pages 140-164

9. Health Capital: New Health Risks and Personal Investments in the Body in the Context of Changing Nordic Welfare States

   • Kristian Larsen, Malcolm P. Cutchin, Ivan Harsløf

   Pages 165-188

10. Ethnification of New Social Risks: Programmes for Preparing Newly Arrived Immigrants for (Working) Life in Sweden, Denmark and Norway

    • Ariana Guilherme Fernandes

    Pages 189-219

11. New Geographically Differentiated Configurations of Social Risks: Labour Market Policy Developments in Sweden and Finland

    • Simone Scarpa

    Pages 220-244

12. A Liberalistic Handling of New Social Risks — Danish Experiences from Three Decades of Social Policy Reforms

    • Iver Hornemann Møller

    Pages 245-265

13. Discussion: The Take on New Social Risks in the Nordic Welfare States

    • Rickard Ulmestig, Ivan Harsløf

    Pages 266-281

14. Back Matter

    Pages 282-295

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The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.

• education
• Figuration
• immigration
• labor market
• migration
• social policy
• unemployment

"Ivan Harslof and Rickard Ulmestig have compiled an excellent collection of studies that take a hard look at how different Nordic countries respond to changing social risks. This book brings a corrective lens to bear on policies related to market oriented management techniques, activation, privatization, decentralization, working-time regulations, support of lone parents, and assimilation of newly arrived immigrants. As such it offers an original view which highlights the impact of an emerging neo-liberal agenda on the Nordic responses to new social risks. A remarkable contribution to the typically idealized view of Nordic welfare states, this volume represents an example of critical analysis at its best." - Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, USA

• Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway

  Ivan Harsløf

• Jönköping University & Linnaeus University, Sweden

  Rickard Ulmestig

Synøve Nygaard Andersen, Statistics Norway, Norway Malcolm P. Cutchin, University of North Carolina, US Uffe Enokson, Linnaeus University, Sweden Ariana Guilherme Fernandes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mia Hakovirta, University of Turku, Finland Susan Kuivalainen, National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Kristian Larsen, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway Alexandru Panican, Lund University, Sweden Minna Rantalaiho, Social Worker, Finland Iver Hornemann Møller, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Simone Scarpa, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy

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