Co-creating and Co-producing Multicultural Cemeteries in Norway and Sweden: A Comparative Study with Insights from Drammen, Eskilstuna and Umeå

Abstract This study aims to broaden the scope of attention paid multicultural societies in existing migration and mobilities literature, through expanding on topic spatial design, planning management contemporary cemeteries light increasing multiculturalism. The chapter explores how national judicial acts practices facilitate or hinder inclusion minorities’ needs local level measures three Scandinavian towns safeguard minorities crematoria. empirical data consists analysis legislative qualitative interviews with 28 stakeholders medium/large-sized towns. As will be shown, Swedish Norwegian burial share many similarities – for example, both acknowledge need meet particular cremation people not belonging Christian church. Differences mainly relate religion belief communities are involved development cemeteries. Through interviews, we extract a nuanced picture individual work ‘multiculturalism’ by elaborating following components that emerged from analysis: presence diversity, accommodation various needs, cooperation minorities, reflections over special grave areas cemetery sections minorities. study’s comparative outlook informs current debates further sheds specific inputs forming policies aiming at facilitating approach when designing, managing