Immigration, housing and segregation in the Nordic welfare states

2011 Andersson, Roger, Lena Magnusson Turner & Emma Holmqvist, "Contextualising ethnic residential segregation in Sweden:
welfare, housing and migration-related policies", pp. 15–78 in Andersson, Roger, Hanna Dhalmann, Emma Holmqvist, Timo M. Kauppinen, Lena Magnusson Turner, Hans Skifter Andersen, Susanne Søholt, Mari Vaattovaara, Katja Vilkama, Terje Wessel & Saara Yousfi (eds), Immigration, housing and segregation in the Nordic welfare states. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, Department of Geosciences and Geography.

Abstract
This study constitutes the first part of a four-year comparative research project on Nordic welfare states and the dynamics and effects of ethnic residential segregation (NODES). The project is funded by NORFACE's Research Programme on Migration. Research in the project is to be conducted through five multidisciplinary subprojects to explore the underlying causes and impacts of ethnic segregation both from the perspective of individual migrant families and the receiving society. This research report aims to function as a background study to contextualize the policy framework and practices, immigration flows and settlement patterns that have been hypothesized to shape and affect the processes of ethnic residential segregation in the Nordic countries.

The NODES project involves fourteen researchers and six partner institutions from Denmark (Danish Building Research Institute at Aalborg University), Finland (University ofHelsinki and National Institute for Health and Welfare), Norway (University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research), and Sweden (Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University).