Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe / ed. by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abdelhady, Dalia, Editor.

Gren, Nina, 1972- Editor.

Joormann, Martin, Editor.

Series:

Manchester University Press.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Refugees have moved into the spotlight of public debate in Europe and North America, where they are targeted by multiple welfare state interventions. This volume analyses the tensions that emerge within the strong welfare states of Northern Europe when faced with an increased immigration of protection-seeking people. Examining the encounter between refugees and the welfare states, this book explores the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled groups and the role of media discourses and welfare policies in shaping those experiences.Building on both textual analyses and ethnographic fieldwork in welfare institutions, asylum centres, and refugee communities, this volume provides an in-depth understanding of the complex realities faced by refugees: deterrence and categorisation, struggle and success, mobility and stagnation. As social phenomena, Northern Europe's asylum systems and integration programmes must be understood in the context of the bureaucratisation of everyday life.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

PART I: Governing refugees

2 Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems

3 Lesson for the future or threat to sovereignty?

4 Representations of the refugee crisis in Denmark

5 Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

PART II: Disciplining refugees

6 Images of crisis and the crisis of images

7 Media constructions of the refugee crisis in Sweden

8 (De-)legitimation of migration

PART III: The meaning of refugeeness

9 Living bureaucratisation

10 Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration

11 The trauma of waiting

12 Bureaucratised banality

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

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ISBN:

1-5261-4682-7

OCLC:

1260251148