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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2025
The subject of the transnational movement of people, whether voluntary or, as in so many cases, forced, is now one of the central issues confronting not only global governance but also local politics and cultural attitudes in the societies where migrants manage to settle. This valuable book takes up this issue through a careful and sensitive case study of one particular instance to such movement and settlement – that of Somali migrants to Denmark. Their presence, in a country and climate very different from their homeland, raises numerable issues, not only for the situation of refugees and asylum seekers in Denmark, but today throughout much of Europe. These issues, which the author contextualizes in his case study of the city of Aarhus, include not only the inevitable issues initially of employment and social and cultural integration but also those of the routes to citizenship and the impact of immigration on local public policies, which have to be revised to confront questions of housing, language learning, social security, and of course considerations of social acceptance in the new host community. But what gives the book an added edge is that the author, while providing a detailed case study of the Somali community in Aarhus, contextualizes this in a much wider frame-work of the now global issues of local transnational encounters, the politics of citizenship and forced repatriations, and the diplomatic relationships of Denmark to Somalia and the development aid concerns that this provokes. Many migrant studies focus on issues of reception – of how migrants and perceived and assimilated (or not) into local communities far removed geographically and culturally from their places of origin. The originality of this book is that it deals not only with this level of analysis (and provides rich insights into the situation of the daily lives of the Somali community in Denmark), but puts these issues in the much larger framework of citizenship in a globalized world, transnational civic mobilization and mechanisms for the support of refugees (and potential ones), and the efforts by migrant communities to improve their own image in the eyes of receiving societies.
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