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Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in northern Europe / edited by Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren and Martin Joormann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Scandinavia.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Europe, Northern.
- Refugees--Services for--Scandinavia.
- Refugees--Services for--Europe, Northern.
- Welfare state--Scandinavia.
- Welfare state.
- Welfare state--Europe, Northern.
- Refugees--Services for.
- Northern Europe.
- Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 231 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Martin Joormann
- pt. I Governing refugees
- 2. Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems / Martin Joormann
- 3. Lesson for the future or threat to sovereignty? Contesting the meaning of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden / Admir Skodo
- 4. Representations of the refugee crisis in Denmark: deterrence policies and refugee strategies / Martin Bak Jorgensen
- 5. Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden / Annika Lindberg
- pt. II Disciplining refugees
- 6. Images of crisis and the crisis of images: a visual analysis of four frames of representation of `refugeeness' in Swedish newspapers / Jelena Jovicic
- 7. Media constructions of the refugee crisis in Sweden: institutions and the challenges of refugee governance / Dalia Abdelhady
- 8. (De-)legitimation of migration: a critical study of social media discourses / Hedvig Obenius
- pt. III The meaning of refugeeness
- 9. Living bureaucratisation: young Palestinian men encountering a Swedish introductory programme for refugees / Nina Gren
- 10. Aspiration, appreciation and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany / Wendy Pearlman
- 11. The trauma of waiting: understanding the violence of the benevolent welfare state in Norway / Nerina Weiss
- 12. Bureaucratised banality: asylum and immobility in Britain, Denmark and Sweden / Victoria Canning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1526146835
- 9781526146830
- OCLC:
- 1145264035
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