ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a brief history of Danish refugee reception post-1954 with its state funded NGO refugee reception and integration, changing into the first Integration Act of 1999. The chapter argues for choosing three moments in Danish welfare state history, and thus specific refugee arrivals to Denmark, i.e., 1978–1982, 1992–1996 and 2014–2016 when Vietnamese, Bosnian and Syrian refugees arrived. Vietnamese refugees with devastating stories, primarily arriving by Danish containerships, invoked compassion and deserving quota refugees from refugee camps were received subsequently. Bosnian refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing in the former Socialist Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia during the independence wars received temporary residence permits and were accommodated in flotels, tent camps and empty public buildings in an era of dawning national protectionism. Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria were granted short-term temporary residence permits without options to apply for asylum and with severe restrictions on family reunification in a period of securitisation and hostile protectionism. Finally, the chapter delineates the book's source material, i.e., 752 texts concerning professional mobilisation vis-á-vis refugees from four professional periodicals: The Social Worker, Children & Adolescents, The Public Community School and Danish Journal of Nursing.
