Public constructs of the welfare state are vital for the continuous assurance of the system's
validity, sustainability and accountability. This study produces descriptive cross-country …

As comments from cultural historian Tytti Soila and political economist Lucie Tunkrova
illustrate, the centrality of nature for Nordic film culture cannot be underestimated. For …

Comprehensive gender equality remains an unfulfilled goal in many European countries, in
spite of important developments and challenges to the traditional gendered division of …

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the
Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans, it presents …

This article is written as an invitation to sociologists to rethink the concept of voluntary social
work. Rather than comprehensive theory, it is an essay seeking to explore new ways of …

Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of
all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally. Supported by a …

The introductory chapter presents the overall aims and contents of this edited collection. The
book is about the services for and service needs of women on the margins of society and in …

This Special Issue examines the position of migrant-background care workers in Nordic care
work regimes. The issue takes part in a research dialogue that is emerging between …

Care is a highly gendered and contested concept. Contrary to many concepts that have
implicitly assumed the male as norm, care has been a woman-centered concept. The …

This article explores the adoption of new technology in organisations that provide senior
citizen care. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann's systems theory, we study how technology …