University of Helsinki
Welfare Citizenship and Welfare Nationalism
University of Helsinki, Friday 28 October 2011, 9.30 – 16
Venue: The Forest House (Metsätalo), Unioninkatu 40, room 10
An open seminar and book launch of the new book “Welfare Citizenship and Welfare Nationalism” edited by Andrzej Marcin Suszycki and published in the series NordWel Studies in Historical Welfare State Research. The book offers contributions of scholars in the field of welfare state studies, comparative politics and political theory that focus on the relationship between nationalism and citizenship in the context of the modern welfare states. The
workshop will, first, discuss the conceptualisation of the terms welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism. Second, it will examine both in inter-country comparisons and in-depth single country cases how welfare citizenship and welfare nationalism change their meaning and functions in view of the processes of globalisation, European integration and immigration as well as in the context of multi-ethnical statehood.
PROGRAMME
9.30
Lecturer ANDRZEJ MARCIN SUSZYCKI (University of Potsdam and University of Passau): Welfare Nationalism. Conceptual and theoretical considerations
Professor IRENEUSZ PAWEL KAROLEWSKI (Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies, University of Wroclaw): Welfare Citizenship
10.45 Coffee break
11.00
Professor PAULI KETTUNEN (Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki): Welfare Nationalism and Competitive Community
11.45 Lunch break
13.30
Professor GRETE BROCHMANN (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo): Citizenship and welfare in the Norwegian Nation State. The immigration challenge.
Postdoctoral researcher ROMANA CAREJA (Institute for Sociology, the University of Cologne): The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Social policy, migration politics and welfare state nationalism
15.15 Final Discussion
16.00 End of the seminar
The workshop is open for public. However, for coffee please register to Heidi Haggrén, heidi.haggren[at]helsinki.fi, by Wednesday 26 October.
Organizer: The Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State – Historical Foundations and Future Challenges, NordWel. NordWel is a multidisciplinary, cross-national research network of eight partner units in the Nordic universities, financed by NordForsk and hosted by the Department of Political and Economic Studies, Section of Social Science History at the University of Helsinki. Our mission is to deepen our understanding of the
development of the Nordic welfare state in order to foster the research-based discussion on Nordic societies and their future. Www: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/