Trine Øland

Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare State (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Welfare Work with Immigrants and Refugees in a Social Democratic Welfare 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.

Through a sociological interview-study with welfare workers, this book describes how processes of othering are undercurrents of welfare work. The processes construct immigrants and refugees as a kind of people who are not only culturally different but also behind, deficient and weak, and thus assigned the potential to benefit from welfare work. These processes are designated to advance a racial welfare dynamic of remedial circularity which keeps the immigrant and refugee on the threshold of modern living and democracy. It is thus depicted how welfare work is intertwined not with a biological framework but with a cultural framework naturalising and ontologising cultural differences. The book examines how welfare work tends to appreciate immigrants and refugees as dislocated people with a cultural lack and how it abides by the dictums of civilising expansions and humanitarian imperialism within the modern state.

This book will be useful for every scholar who wants to reconsider and think differently about how the welfare state is going to proceed in a global society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351264426
• Artikelnr.: 55441012

Autorenporträt

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".

Inhaltsangabe

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