Summary of Feasibility Study on the Potential of Community-based Sponsorship in Finland
This study analyses the potential to develop a model of community-based sponsorship in Finland through cooperation between the state, municipalities, and civil society organizations. The study aims to (1) discover how these models would fit in with Finland’s resettlement programme and tradition; (2) clarify the practical feasibility of the programme; and (3) evaluate the potential of the programme, including identifying challenges and value-added.
Summary of Refugee-Integration-Opportunity Structures: Shifting the Focus from Refugees to Context
The article offers a counterpoint to integration discourses that emphasise the responsibilities and integration outcomes of refugees: by focusing on how the receiving society context is critical to shaping refugee-integration opportunities. The article offers an analytical framework to analyze refugees’ normative integration outcomes by introducing five sets of host society “opportunity structures”: locality, discourse, relations, structure and initiatives, and support.