Table 1
Publications reviewed.
| AUTHOR(S) AND DATE | TITLE | COUNTRY/COUNTRIES OF STUDY | POLICY CONTEXT | REFUGEE EXPERIENCES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamo (2007) | The legal position of migrants in Denmark: Assessing the context around the ‘cartoon crisis’ | Denmark | Human rights | Requirements are difficult to navigate |
| Andreasson & Herz (2022) | Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study of asylum seekers family life in the Swedish migration context | Sweden | Welfare context Human rights | Mental health stressors |
| Bech, Borevi & Mouritsen (2017) | A ‘civic turn’ in Scandinavian family migration policies? Comparing Denmark, Norway and Sweden | Denmark, Norway, Sweden | Civic integration, welfare context | ‘Double conditionality’ |
| Bech & Mouritsen (2013) | Restricting the right to family reunification in Denmark | Denmark | Welfare context Human rights | – |
| Borevi (2015) | Family migration policies and politics: understanding the Swedish exception | Sweden | Welfare context Human rights | – |
| Emilsson (2020) | Continuity or change? The Impact of the Refugee Crisis on Swedish Political Parties’ Migration Policy Preferences | Sweden | Welfare context Human rights | – |
| Gammeltoft-Hansen (2017) | Refugee policy as ‘negative nation branding’: the case of Denmark and the Nordics. | Denmark and some references to Sweden, Norway | Aim and timing of stricter requirements | – |
| Gustafsson (2022) | Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification | Sweden | – | Time and mental health stressors |
| Hagelund (2020) | After the refugee crisis: public discourse and policy change in Denmark, Norway and Sweden | Norway, Sweden, Denmark | Policy pathways consistent or not | – |
| Halme-Tuomisaari, Tapaninen & Aunela (2019) | Where’s the well: DNA evidence, personal narratives and unpredictability in Finnish family reunification | Finland | DNA | Requirements difficult to navigate |
| Helén (2014) | Biological citizenship across borders: Politics of DNA profiling for family reunification | Finland | DNA | – |
| Helén & Tapaninen (2013) | Closer to the truth: DNA profiling for family reunification and the rationales of immigration policy in Finland | Finland | DNA | Credibility questioned |
| Hernes (2018) | Cross-national convergence in times of crisis? Integration policies before, during and after the refugee crisis | Denmark, Norway, Sweden | Policy path dependency | – |
| Hiitola (2019) | Locating Forced Migrants’ Resources: Residency status and the process of family reunification in Finland | Finland | – | UAM, changing expectations. Economic and social resources needed |
| Hiitola (2021) | Everyday (in)security and transnational family relationships in the lives of young forced migrants | Finland | – | Time stressors |
| Hiitola & Vähä-Soro (2021) | Genres of departure: forced migrants’ family separation and personal narratives | Finland | – | Using narratives to cope |
| Hvidtfeldt, Petersen & Norredam (2022) | Waiting for family reunification and the risk of mental disorders among refugee fathers: a 24-year longitudinal cohort study from Denmark | Denmark | – | Poor mental health Time stressors |
| Hyökki (2019) | The EU and Human Rights as Institutional Facts in the Finnish Political Discourse on Family Reunification | Finland | Human rights | Financial burden Time stressors |
| Lee & Voigt (2020) | DNA Testing for Family Reunification and the Limits of Biological Truth | Finland, Germany, USA | DNA | – |
| Leinonen & Pellander (2020) | Temporality and everyday (in)security in the lives of separated refugee families | Finland | Human rights | Mental health and time stressors Credibility questioned |
| Olwig (2022) | The right to a family life and the biometric ‘Truth’ of family reunification: Somali refugees in Denmark | Denmark | DNA | Definition of family |
| Palander et al. (2023) | International human rights frameworks in relation to national family reunification policy and administrative practice | Sweden, Finland Plus other countries | Welfare context | – |
| Sourander (2003) | Refugee families during asylum seeking | Finland | – | Poor mental health |
| Staver (2015) | Hard work for love: the economic drift in Norwegian family immigration and integration policies | Norway | Income requirements | – |
| Tapaninen, Halme-Tuomisaari & Kankaanpää (2019) | Mobile lives, immutable facts: family reunification of children in Finland | Finland | DNA | Definition of family Mental health and economic stressors |
| Tapaninen & Helén (2020) | Making up families: how DNA analysis does/does not verify relatedness in family reunification in Finland | Finland | DNA | Requirements are difficult to navigate |
| Zand (2006) | En kamp imod vejrmøller [A struggle against windmills] [Nonclinical Case Study]. | Denmark | – | Changing expectations Poor mental health |
| Østergaard-Nielsen (2003) | Counting the cost: Denmark’s changing migration policies | Denmark | Welfare context | – |
| Total | 28 publications (10 overlap in both categories) | 21 publications | 17 publications |