Positions of newly arrived students in Nordic education policies and practices

• In Event: Scrutinizing the Nordic Dimension in Education: Myths, Realities, and Integration Efforts

Abstract

This paper investigates how Nordic countries – exemplified by Denmark, Finland, and Sweden – govern the education and inclusion of newly arrived students. Despite the Nordic dimension of equality as an important educational vision, the problem of discrimination remains a major political challenge (Beach & Dovemark, 2019; Horst, 2017; Hummelstedt et al., 2021). To understand why and how discrimination takes place, we take a closer look at the students who are included in the category of ‘students with migrant background’ (Brännström, 2021).

Authors

• Gunilla Holm, University of Helsinki

• Annette Rasmussen, Aalborg University

• Marianne Dovemark, University of Gothenburg

• Jenni Helakorpi, University of Helsinki