..., a few institutional factors affect Finnish attitudes to the EU. This chapter discusses the stand of Finland on the EU-related initiatives. Finnish responses to the European social dimensions have fluctuated. Finland is not willing to define some policy areas or issues as belonging to the realm...

...This chapter compares the policy developments of Finland and Sweden. It is argued that any analysis of change in policy models and their outcomes needs to be interpreted in relation to the macro-economic conditions and to labour market developments. The main focus of the analysis is the response...

.... The focus is on the situations of working carers in different welfare systems: Nordic (Finland, Sweden), liberal democratic (Australia, England) and East Asian (Japan, Taiwan). The book opens with two chapters which delineate the main features of the demographic, labour market and care challenges facing...

...The chapter addresses the characteristics and situations of working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden. It draws together knowledge on employment legislation, public policy and payments to working carers with studies on family care of older people. The central questions addressed are: Who...

.... The effects of welfare state retrenchment are also discussed. Anttonen A Finland Graham H Nordic states parent carers of disabled children Sipilä J Sweden DeJong G disability policy institutional care Nirje B normalisation rights of people with disabilities self determination Special Care...

...This chapter presents an actual description of residential child protection in Finland. The material is interpreted on the basis of culture and child protection policy. In Finland, practitioners from different fields are involved in residential child protection work: health care professionals...

...For the past four decades, employers and employee organisations have played a pivotal role in the designing of social policy in Finland. These central labour market organisations have been involved in decisions about taxes, wages, and social benefits including working times and schemes supporting...

...This chapter examines the engagement of social work academics in the policy process in Finland. It begins by presenting an overview of social policy and the welfare state in Finland and by discussing the emergence of the social work profession and the place of policy practice in that country...

...This chapter studies immigration to Finland using two different angles. The first is from the point of view of the social-security system, while the second is from the point of view of labour-market integration. The chapter provides a summary of immigrant access to social security and discusses...

...This chapter explores the question of why fatherhood and violence in intimate relationships are, in Finland, so seldom treated simultaneously within the same context. The goal is to reflect upon this theme on the basis of literature and to accumulate the reasons for this silence in the Finnish...

...This chapter explores whether Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland have followed a similar path in the development of their childcare polices or whether their policies reflect different national choices within this policy area. The data suggests that the Nordic countries have developed...

... in family policies in Finland, which can be assumed to affect the public attitude towards preferred division of unpaid and paid work in the families. According to the results, Finnish fathers spend significantly more time attending to child care and other unpaid work than two decades ago. On the other hand...

...This chapter states that unemployment is associated with social exclusion among young people. It starts by presenting the concept of social exclusion. It then investigates the structural differences in experiences of unemployment in Finland, Sweden, Scotland and Spain, highlighting routes out...

...This chapter examines young women's experiences of unemployment in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Spain. It describes how different predictors and buffers affect mental health in different countries. It starts by comparing the labour market context of women and cross-country differences regarding...

... concerning gender, occupation and experience of unemployment). The results show that the young unemployed people in Scotland and Germany clearly do not have sympathies with the right, while at least in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Italy about one third of the young unemployed have such sympathies...

...Focusing on Finland as a bilingual (Finnish and Swedish) Nordic society that had particular historical relationships to the Russian and the Soviet Empire, this chapter examines the conceptual activities shaping social policy as a political and policy field. The story begins in the 1860s...

... demographic change through different mechanisms. Moreover, since generations differ in their size, they contribute to population ageing to different degrees. This chapter uses data from Finland to illustrate generational differences in the live-course. It does this by comparing baby boomers to previous...

...In this chapter we discuss the development of part-time work in Finland and Norway and ask if there is a trend towards more marginalised part-time work also in the well-regulated Nordic labour markets. Furthermore, we investigate if there are differences between Norway, with its long tradition...

... of the concept of “folk church” as an ideological construction that suppresses alternative understandings of church and state relations in Finland. Berger Peter definitions of religion Lužný D McCutcheon R T meaning Saler B Beckford Jim constructivist sociology conversion processes Halonen Helmi Hjelm...

...In a conversation with the editors of the book, Ánneristen Juuso discusses Sámi identity in contemporary Finland. The interview offers a historical and contemporary analysis of the deracination of Sámi peoples and the intentional and strategic formation of a hegemonic Finnish national identity...