Bureaucracy, Integration and Suspicion in the Welfare State

Mark Graham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-12474-5 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the often well-meaning routines and assumptions of a generous welfare state can reflect and even contribute to the stigmatisation of refugees and Muslims in Europe today. While the main cases are from Sweden, examples are included from the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. Mark Graham examines how suspicion is woven into the fabric of welfare bureaucracies with potential adverse consequences for the people they serve. He complicates our understanding of what Islamophobia means, and how it is expressed and created, by exploring contexts in which the logic of "othering" Muslims operates, but where explicit Islamophobia itself is absent. The book starts with Swedish public-sector bureaucracies and attempts by staff to make sense of Muslim refugee clients with categories and models that reappear in wider society. It goes on to explore the logic of integration policies, official concepts of culture, Swedish multiculturalism, educational strategies in schools, and debates surrounding "genuine" and "false" refugees. In all cases, the homologies between these different socio-cultural domains are explored.

Mark Graham is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

List of Figures; Preface; 1. Homologies; 2. The Challenges of Integration; 3. Dealing with Culture; 4. In Context; 5. Classifications at Work; 6. Muslim Persons; 7. Mimetic Muslims; 8. Doubts and Suspicions; 9. A Fractured Mirror: Some Final Reflections

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-12474-5 / 1138124745
ISBN-13	978-1-138-12474-5 / 9781138124745
Zustand	Neuware