The multiethnic rural community: Exclusion or inclusion of immigrants?

The project will study how the increasingly multiethnic Norwegian rural
communities change as a result of transmigration processes. More
specifically, exclusion and inclusion processes in the welfare arenas of
housing and labour markets as well as civil society participation will be
explored. Three very different Norwegian rural districts, as well as three
contrasting cases - one urban district and one rural district in respectively
Denmark and Sweden - will be compared. A most-different comparative case
approach will be used to identify possible similar patterns across cases, as
well as differences caused by being rural and being Norwegian.