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Portrait Nina Gren. Photo: Emma Lord.

Nina Gren

Senior lecturer

Portrait Nina Gren. Photo: Emma Lord.

Introduction

Author

  • Dalia Abdelhady
  • Nina Gren
  • Martin Joormann

Editor

  • Dalia Abdelhady
  • Nina Gren
  • Martin Joormann

Summary, in English

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 within the strong welfare states of Northern Europe when faced with an increased immigration of protection-seeking people. Examining the encounter between refugees and the welfare states, this book explores the daily strategies and experiences of newly settled groups and the role of media discourses and welfare policies in shaping those experiences.

Building on both textual analyses and ethnographic fieldwork in welfare institutions, asylum centres, and refugee communities, this volume provides an in-depth understanding of the complex realities faced by refugees: deterrence and categorisation, struggle and success, mobility and stagnation. As social phenomena, Northern Europe's asylum systems and integration programmes must be understood in the context of the bureaucratisation of everyday life.

Department/s

  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • Department of Sociology of Law
  • Middle Eastern Studies
  • Social Anthropology

Publishing year

2020-09-29

Language

English

Publication/Series

Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • refugees
  • integration
  • welfare
  • Europe

Status

Published

Project

  • Slippery Suffering? A Comparative Ethnography of the Encounter between Survivors of War and the Scandinavian Welfare States
  • Cultivating Swedish-ness? Urban gardening and social inclusion among refugees

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-5261-4682-3
  • ISBN: 978-1-5261-4683-0