TY  - CHAP
AB  - The establishment and implementation of a relatively strict immigration regime in Norway has taken place within a vocabulary of equality, humanity, social justice and decency. One aspect is an insistence on a “restricted and controlled” immigration in order to protect a state of equality in Norway and avoid the emergence of a new “underclass.” Another is the stress on Norway’s humanitarian traditions and the rich country’s responsibility towards people in need, also globally. A whole rhetoric has evolved where immigration politics appears as a matter of decency, somehow apart from the more pragmatic tug-of-wars affecting other fields of politics. On the one hand, a “restricted and controlled” immigration is necessary in order to protect certain moral qualities of Norwegian society. But on the other, immigration politics has also appeared as an indicator of the moral qualities of the Norwegian nation-state thus requiring “decent policies” in order not to threaten the image of a nation embodying such moral qualities.
VL  - 22
SN  - 978-0-76231-064-7, 978-1-84950-243-6/0195-6310
DO  - 10.1016/S0195-6310(03)22007-X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0195-6310(03)22007-X
AU  - Hagelund Anniken
ED  - Grete Brochmann
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GOOD: POWER AND MORALITY IN NORWEGIAN IMMIGRATION POLITICS
T2  - Multicultural Challenge
T3  - Comparative Social Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 177
EP  - 203
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -