About the project
The project is managed by professor Anton Steen. The argument of the project is that successful implementation depends on how the local leadership responds to instruments of the welfare state, how leaders are shaping the local discourse and adapt to a skeptical mass opinion. The empirical material constitutes a database including all Norwegian municipalities and their decisions on resettlement of refugees, interviews, debates in the municipal council, public documents and population surveys.
You can read more about the project on its norwegian webpage