Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Abdelhady, Dalia, editor (editor), Gren, Nina, 1972- editor, Joormann, Martin, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press [2020]
Colección:Manchester University Press.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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