1st Edition
Minority Groups and the Twentieth-Century European Welfare State
Introduction: minorities and the making of European welfare
Hanna Lindberg, Karolina Lendák-Kabók and John Paul Newman
1. Guarding the boundaries of belonging: the Church of Sweden, Gypsy mission and social care in the 1910s–40s
Ida Al Fakir
2. ‘We swear to fight for the inviolability of the borders of our motherland’: disabled veterans and social welfare in interwar Lviv
Oksana Vynnyk
3. ‘Bastion of Italian-ness’: the nationalization of welfare and the changing meaning of rehabilitation in post-war Italy (1945–59)
Giacomo Canepa
4. Intra-minority welfare in the post-war period: new expertise on private and public solutions to Finland-Swedish population and welfare problems
Hanna Lindberg and Mats Wickström
5. Divided attention?: the Greek state and the education of the Gastarbeiter children in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960s–70s)
Maria Adamopoulou
6. War veterans, minorities and crisis points in Yugoslav welfare
John Paul Newman and Karolina Lendák-Kabók
Biography
Hanna Lindberg is Senior Researcher in History at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Her research has focused on minority, disability and gender history as well as the history of the Nordic welfare state.
Karolina Lendák-Kabók is Associate Professor at the Department of Minority Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her research focuses on national minorities, gender issues, language rights, and mixed families in Central and Eastern Europe.
John Paul Newman is Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History at Maynooth University. He is interested in the modern history of the Southeastern and East-Central Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia.
