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Abstract This article summarises the results of a two-phase research project, which concentrated on leisure practices of ethnic minority youth and their expectations on multicultural youth services. The question is how youth work as “cultureless” principles of Nordic welfare universalism function in contemporary social conditions. Have youth workers and administrative authorities adopted multicultural demands of increasing ethnic diversity? The case of Finland is taken as a special example. The analysis of the data is based on a survey and thematic interviews. The current culturally diverse reality is seen as leading to new youth work practices, but this happens slowly and is disturbed by resistant attitudes. Keywords Youth work • welfare services • multiculturalism • equality • universalism 1 Introduction In Finland, the social services for young people have developed together with the wider Nordic welfare model, and are based on wide, principally equal access to the welfare services organised by the public sector. This advancement has leant on nation-state ideology, having universalism as its socio-political ideal (see Ahponen 2008; Anttonen
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