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Negotiating love, law, and Islam in Swedish-Gambian marriages

This paper is concerned with love, law and Islam in marriages between Swedish women and Gambian Muslim men: encounters with religion, religiosity, Islam, Islamic traditions, notions of Swedish, Gambian and Islamic law, and cultural differences. The chapter draws on the particular experiences of a number of Swedish women living in Malmö, Sweden, and it is based on in-depth interviews with them. The

Civic duty, Stasi society or Petty revenge: citizen reporting on tax cheating neighbors in Sweden and Denmark

Both Sweden and Denmark have experienced an increase in the number of people informing the social and tax authorities that their neighbors are cheating on social benefits or earning illegal incomes through ‘black work’ (‘angiveri’ om social bedrageri eller sort arbejde). At the same time, many municipalities and the social and tax authorities have established hot lines or web portals where citizen