Migration in the Nordic countries
The effects of migration on the local community
Migration and integration are often seen as something difficult that causes friction in society. The research project intends to increase people's understanding of migration and what is important for creating inclusion and integration. The project will, through a more nuanced image and through examples of migration processes and integration that have affected our society historically, try to draw new lessons. The purpose is an increased understanding of today's migration and what happens to both those who move to a new place and those who suddenly get new fellow human beings in the local community, since the integration process is always about both parties.
The research project, which in May 2025 was granted funds from Nordplus, will during the project period until April 2027 work on gathering knowledge about migration processes that have been important in our local communities and influenced them, draw lessons from these processes and reflect on best practice for integration and inclusion. Where are the risks that, instead of inclusion, we are based on non-inclusion? By taking lessons from different processes in the past, we can create knowledge about inclusion and disseminate this learning on how to work to bridge social integration and inclusion challenges in a Nordic perspective. Together, our institutions represent different memory aspects of migration and integration, both successful and less successful, forced and voluntary, and therefore we have the opportunity to improve our knowledge together and build stronger communities for the future.
The project concludes with a poster exhibition and an in -depth exhibition catalog that will elucidate several aspects of migration; Work, entrepreneurship, language competencies and cultural learning. In addition to this, a conference is conducted for people who work in different ways with inclusion and integration.
The project's partners:
The Kiviks Museum & Archive Foundation(Project owner, Sweden)
Landskrona City Cultural Management(Sweden)
The German Remembrance Hovdisan(Denmark)