Racism in Danish welfare work with refugees troubled by difference, docility and dignity / Marta Padovan-©¿zdemir and Trine ©¿land.

Author/creator Padovan-©¿zdemir, Marta
Other author ©¿land, Trine.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Subjects

SeriesRoutledge research in race and ethnicity
Contents Race and welfare -- A postcolonial welfare analytics -- A brief history of Danish refugee reception - contextualising the source material -- Sociological history of racism and the methodological intervention of stock -- stories -- The stock story of colour-blindness -- The stock story of potentializing -- The stock story of compassion -- From modern ghosts to a racial structure of welfare work.
Abstract "This book explores contemporary Danish relations of colonial complicity in welfare work with newly arrived refugees 1978-2016 as recursive histories that reveal new shapes and shades of racism. Focussing on super- and subordination in helping relations of postcoloniality, the book displays the durability of coloniality and the workings of raceless racism in welfare work with refugees. Its main contribution is the excavation of stock stories of colour-blindness, potentialising and compassion, which help welfare workers invest in burying that which keeps haunting welfare work with refugees, i.e., modern ghosts of difference, docility and dignity. The book dismantles the global myth of the Danish benevolent, universalistic welfare state and it is of interest to every scholar and student, who wants to make inquiries about Danish exceptionalism and the hidden interaction between past and present, the visible and invisible in Danish welfare work with refugees"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2021056472
ISBN9780367563332 (hardback)
ISBN9780367563356 (paperback)
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