Au pair-strategier i danske familier - privat husarbejder eller maternalistisk mikrostyring

Au pair strategies in Danish host families – private domestic worker or maternalistic micro-management The concept of au pair is highly gendered, as it is historically rooted in a mixture of domestic work, family control and cultural education. The au pair system is a managed migration arrangement which has undergone a rather overlooked development in Scandinavia in recent years.In this article the aim is to shed light on rationalities and subjectivities performed in strategies characterizing the relations between au pair employer and employee in the private space of the family household. Based on an empirical study conducted in 2007/2008 including interviews with au pairs and host families in Denmark, the relation between the au pair and the host family is analysed as gendered house work typically organised as a female-to-female relationship between the extra EU, ethnical minoritized, temporary migrant woman and the Danish, ethnical majoritized citizen

Somalis in Copenhagen

Somalis in Copenhagen explores the views and experiences of Somalis living in Copenhagen and the challenges and successes of integration policies. The report focuses on six areas of local policy—education, employment, housing, health and social protection, policing and security, and citizenship and participation—as well as broader themes of belonging and identity and the role of the media. Immigration from Somalia to Denmark is a new phenomenon very much linked to the political situation in Somalia. The Danish Somali population in Copenhagen is small and faces social and economic disadvantages, particularly a very high level of discrimination and stereotyping. The study reveals institutional gaps across different areas that need to be addressed urgently but also good practices at the local level. Somalis in Copenhagen is part of a comparative seven-city research series entitled Somalis in European Cities, by the Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe project, which examines the realities of people from Somali backgrounds in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmo, Leicester, London, and Oslo

Somalis in Copenhagen: Executive Summary

Somalis in Copenhagen explores the views and experiences of Somalis living in Copenhagen and the challenges and successes of integration policies. The report focuses on six areas of local policy—education, employment, housing, health and social protection, policing and security, and citizenship and participation—as well as broader themes of belonging and identity and the role of the media. Immigration from Somalia to Denmark is a new phenomenon very much linked to the political situation in Somalia. The Danish Somali population in Copenhagen is small and faces social and economic disadvantages, particularly a very high level of discrimination and stereotyping. The study reveals institutional gaps across different areas that need to be addressed urgently but also good practices at the local level. Somalis in Copenhagen is part of a comparative seven-city research series entitled Somalis in European Cities, by the Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe project, which examines the realities of people from Somali backgrounds in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmo, Leicester, London, and Oslo