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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Part I Introductions; Notes; Chapter 1 The stage and the centre of attention; Welfare work's magic, progress and perfectibility: dependency on the dependent; The modern state and modern welfare work's proliferating and fixating images; The book's major themes compared to similar works; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Analytical focus and methodology; Welfare work and welfare workers as sociological objects; The sociological interview study and opening analytical moves; Notes; References |
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Chapter 3 Entering the Danish field of welfare work addressing immigrants and refugeesWelfare workers' encounters with immigrants and refugees; The Danish case and the features of the Nordic or social democratic welfare state; Notes; References; Part II Symbolic resources mobilised in welfare work addressing immigrants and refugees; References; Chapter 4 Rights; Social rights to welfare: mothers' groups, bicycles and these two cultures; Human rights and individual rights to a dignified life: integrity, being yourself and identifying as you please; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Culture |
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Cultural modernisation: schooling, risks and the separation of groupsScientific reasoning: evidence, investigations and legitimations; References; Chapter 6 Policies; Human development as being technically governable: from potted plants to coffee, cross-professional optimisation and the unimprovable chronic; The human being as economics-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 |
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Constructions and objectifications of immigrants and refugeesHuman difference and how race, racism and racialisation works in modern welfare work; The illusion and the illusion of the Other; Notes; References; Part III Societal forms operating welfare work addressing immigrants and refugees; References; Chapter 9 Benevolence; Navigating professionalism by benevolence; Helping, giving and maintaining the status quo of society; References; Chapter 10 Supremacy; Marked supremacy; Unmarked supremacy; Silencing the actions of supremacy and maintaining the status quo of racialised society; Note |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
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." |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2019) |
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Immigrants -- Services for -- Denmark
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Immigrants -- Denmark -- Social conditions
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Social work with immigrants -- Denmark
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Public welfare -- Denmark
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Social service -- Denmark
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
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Immigrants -- Services for
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Public welfare
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Social service
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Social work with immigrants
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Denmark
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351264440 |
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1351264443 |
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9781351264433 |
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1351264435 |
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9781351264426 |
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1351264427 |
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9781351264419 |
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1351264419 |
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