Racism in Danish welfare work with refugees : troubled by difference, docility and dignity /
| Author / Creator: | Padovan-Ozdemir, Marta, author. |
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ©2022 |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge research in race and ethnicity |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12779191 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003097327 1003097324 9781000584677 1000584674 9781000584691 1000584690 9780367563332 9780367563356 |