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Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic State provides an ambiguous yet disturbing portrait of the inner workings of the Danish Welfare state and its implications in a context of globalisation and migration.
List of contents
Foreword; Part I: Introductions; References; Chapter 1: The stage and the centre of attention; Welfare works’ magic, progress and perfectibility: dependency on the dependent; The modern state and modern welfare works’ proliferating and fixating images; The book’s major themes compared to works alike; References; Chapter 2: Analytical focus and methodology; Welfare work and welfare workers as sociological objects; The sociological interview study and opening analytical moves; References; Chapter 3: Entering the Danish field of welfare work addressing immigrants and refugees; Welfare workers’ encounter with immigrants and refugees; The Danish case and the features of the Nordic or social democratic welfare state; References; Part II: Symbolic resources mobilised in welfare work addressing immigrants and refugees; References; Chapter 4: Rights; Social rights to welfare: mother’s groups, bicycles, and these two cultures; Human rights and individual rights to a dignified life: integrity, being yourself and identifying as you please; References; Chapter 5: Culture; Cultural modernization: schooling, risks and the separation of groups; Scientific reasoning: evidence, investigations and legitimations; References; Chapter 6: Policies; Human development as technically governable: from potted plants to coffee, cross-professional optimisation, and the not improvable chronic; The human being as economic oriented: a fraud, self-reliant and employed; References; Chapter 7: Morals; The local community as a moral source: for the purpose of reforming; References; Chapter 8: Welfare work’s structure and the illusion of the Other; Constructions and objectifications of the immigrant and refugee; Human difference and how race, racism and racialisation works in modern welfare work; The illusion and the illusion of the Other; References; Part III: Societal forms operating welfare work addressing immigrants and refugees; References; Chapter 9: Benevolence; Navigating professionalism by benevolence; Helping and giving and maintaining status quo of society; References; Chapter 10: Supremacy; Marked supremacy; Unmarked supremacy; Silencing the actions of supremacy and maintaining status quo of racialised society; References; Chapter 11: Critique; Critique as a modern capability; Modern critique; Post-modern critique; Maximising society and refusing its racist foundations; References; Chapter 12: Racialised and racializing welfare work done undone; Done undone; References; Index
About the author
Trine Øland, PhD, is Associate Professor in Educational Research at the University of Copenhagen. Her primary fields of study are the history and sociology of progressive education and welfare state progressivism, and racialisation and classification processes in connection with the emergence and transformation of educational ideas and practices. She is head of the research group "The History and Sociology of Welfare Work at University of Copenhagen".
Summary
Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic State provides an ambiguous yet disturbing portrait of the inner workings of the Danish Welfare state and its implications in a context of globalisation and migration.
