Special Features

“The Health Pack”/How are you? “How are you” (4-5/2009) is about how society and health care looks at and deals with mental (ill-)health among migrants and their children. Read about factors that affect how people feel and the necessity of intercultural thinking, where mental (ill-)health is expressed in different ways. The thematic issue “How are you?” complements the previous issue on health entitled “Pain or Culture?” You can buy both at a specialpackage price or each one individually.
“The Health Pack”/Pain or Culture? The theme feature "Pain or Culture?" (5-6/2004) is an 84-page bumper issue on health and healthcare as seen from an ethnic perspective. The main focus is on the encounter between patients and the medical services – a subject that is important to everyone already working, or hoping to work, in the healthcare sector. Some 20 themed articles highlight the new perspectives facing the country’s medical services in today’s multicultural Sweden.
A Key to Integration? – a special issue devoted to cultural encounters in Swedish society. Where and on what grounds do these meetings take place? Who are the actors? What kinds of obstacles need to be overcome and how does one proceed? This special issue gives background and perspective to the current integration debate. Read “A Key to Integration?” and equip yourself with facts that will help you to exert influence, argue convincingly or act in a well informed way!
An Urban Development Pack: Urban development is an important issue in Europe as a whole. But how are socially and economically sustainable towns and cities constructed in the long-term? How is the physical and mental segregation between inner-city and suburb broken? This “urban development pack” consists of two special issues "Urban Life" and "My Home – My Castle" with articles highlighting different ways of dealing with such matters. More about the “urban development pack” below...
An Urban Development Pack: In “Urban Life”, 5/2008, urban development was discussed from a social perspective. How are human environments and a sustainable society for all constructed? The bumper issue “My Home – My Castle”, 4-5/2007, covers how vital “Million Programme” improvements generate possibilities and opportunities. But do we take advantage of them?
Learn in Reality The modern school is a mix of cultural, social and religious values – but how does one approach the resulting problems and challenges? “Learn in Reality” is the title of the special i&m issue on the theme of intercultural education. The articles contained in “Learn in Reality” describe the multicultural school and the ideas and research that characterise this educational development. Here you can discover more about new theories, and explore a variety of experiences that are both positive and negative.
Nursery school in focus Nursery schools should receive every child on the basis of their own cultural heritage. But an uncertainty about what this means in practice often leads teachers to emphasise it differently. Different views of education and upbringing can degenerate into a tug-of-war about “what is best for the child”. Parental involvement doesn’t always work in the way that parents and teachers hope for or envisage. A dialogue about different norms and methods of education and upbringing is necessary – without questioning or challenging parental role-models. This special feature issue highlights education and upbringing, and parents’ role in the nursery school and during the children’s first years at school.
Peoples and Borders in Europe This three-magazine collection provides in-depth knowledge about changes in Europe during the 1990s in connection with the formation of fifteen new nation states. Old ethnic conflicts and a strong nationalism were reawakened and the political map redrawn.