Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: the case of Denmark

Niels Kærgård

doi:10.1177/1468796810378323

Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: the case of Denmark

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Abstract

Danish society used to have a very homogenous culture; everybody was Lutheran and there were only very small groups of ethnic minorities. However, since the 1960s the immigration of foreign workers and refugees has created substantial minority groups of people who are very different ethnically, religiously and linguistically. Becoming a multicultural country may be particularly problematic for such a formerly homogeneous society; formal and informal rules for the co-existence of different ethnic and religious segments of the society have until now not been necessary

Original language	English
Journal	Ethnicities
Volume	10
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	470-487
Number of pages	18
ISSN	1468-7968
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796810378323
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

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