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Two Waves of Refugee Reception: Bosnian and Herzegovinians in the 1990s, Syrians in the 2010s, and the Swedish Institutional Context

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In this chapter, we familiarize the reader with the background associated with the two cases: refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the 1990s, and those from Syria in the 2010s. The chapter provides overviews of the social and political contexts of these two countries at the time of the respective refugee crises. The emphasis will also be on relevant institutions and structural conditions in Sweden at the time. The chapter also introduces some of the key research in the field having to do with the respective cases, detailing the more thoroughly developed coverage of the BiH case and how this has evolved. By contrast, the research having to do with Syrian refugees to Sweden is quite sparse, given the real-time nature of events.

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    According to Statistics Sweden, 58,880 people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina were living in Sweden in the late 2017. The primary reason for this significant increase of the number is probably because of family ties (familjeanknytning).

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    The next largest migrant group in that period of time was the Polish group (7019).

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  1. School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Gregg Bucken-Knapp

  2. Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Vedran Omanović

  3. Department of Political Science and Centre on Global Migration (CGM), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Andrea Spehar

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Bucken-Knapp, G., Omanović, V., Spehar, A. (2020). Two Waves of Refugee Reception: Bosnian and Herzegovinians in the 1990s, Syrians in the 2010s, and the Swedish Institutional Context. In: Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration. Global Diversities. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27249-4_2

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