Minoritizing Processes and Power Relations between Volunteers and Immigrant Participants—An Example from Norway

The voluntary sector is a strong pillar in Norwegian society and has recent years gained increasing attention as an arena for integration. Though activities can be valuable door openers (recently arrived) immigrants, they may, under certain circumstances, contribute to minoritization processes. In this exploratory article, I will investigate social connections relations between (Norwegian) volunteers immigrant participants based on focus group with eight involved community centre town through analysing the volunteers’ ideas of how integration processes immigrants. Special paid some participants’ behaviour towards only participating group, may reflect minoritizing This article aims more nuanced picture what achieve terms bring light potential risks creating unequal power facilitating