Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe

Herausgeber: Abdelhady, Dalia; Joormann, Martin; Gren, Nina

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Produktbeschreibung

This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership in the welfare state. The contributions look into the meaning of the welfare state, as represented in legal and discursive practices, and the imagination of those seeking to build new lives in it. -- .

Produktdetails

• Manchester University Press
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781526146830
• ISBN-10: 1526146835
• Artikelnr.: 58585816

Autorenporträt

Dalia Abdelhady is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Lund University Nina Gren is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Lund University Martin Joormann is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology of Law at Lund University

Inhaltsangabe

1 Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe: an
introduction - Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann Part 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 polices and refugee strategies - Martin Bak Jørgensen 5 Minimum
rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden -
Annika Lindberg Part II: Disciplining refugees 6 Images of crisis and the
crisis of images: a visual analysis of four frames of representation of
'refugeness' 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 - Marie Sundström and Hedvig Obenius Part
III: The Meaning of refugeeness 9 Living bureaucratization: young
Palestinian men encountering a Swedish introductory program 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 -
Nerina Weiss 12 Bureaucratised banality: asylum and immobility in Britain,
Denmark and Sweden - Victoria Canning