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In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest
self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its
borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six
months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016,
Sweden closed its border with Denmark. This closure makes a
startling reversal of Sweden's open borders to refugees and
contravenes free movement in the Schengen Area, a founding
principle of the European Union. What happened? This book sets out
to explain this reversal. In her new and compelling book, Vanessa
Barker explores the Swedish case study to challenge several key
paradigms for understanding penal order in the twenty-first century
and makes an important contribution to our understanding of
punishment and welfare states. She questions the dominance of
neoliberalism and political economy as the main explanation for the
penalization of others, migrants and foreign nationals, and
develops an alternative theoretical framework based on the internal
logic of the welfare state and democratic theory about citizenship,
incorporation, and difference, paying particular attention to
questions of belonging, worthiness, and ethnic and gender
hierarchies. Her book develops the concept of penal nationalism as
an important form of penal power in the twenty-first century,
providing a bridge between border control and punishment studies.
In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest
self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its
borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six
months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016,
Sweden closed its border with Denmark. This closure makes a
startling reversal of Sweden's open borders to refugees and
contravenes free movement in the Schengen Area, a founding
principle of the European Union. What happened? This book sets out
to explain this reversal. In her new and compelling book, Vanessa
Barker explores the Swedish case study to challenge several key
paradigms for understanding penal order in the twenty-first century
and makes an important contribution to our understanding of
punishment and welfare states. She questions the dominance of
neoliberalism and political economy as the main explanation for the
penalization of others, migrants and foreign nationals, and
develops an alternative theoretical framework based on the internal
logic of the welfare state and democratic theory about citizenship,
incorporation, and difference, paying particular attention to
questions of belonging, worthiness, and ethnic and gender
hierarchies. Her book develops the concept of penal nationalism as
an important form of penal power in the twenty-first century,
providing a bridge between border control and punishment studies.
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