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This book explores how everyday life within educational
institutions changes in response to ideas of interdisciplinarity at
policy level. It provides new insights into different
configurations of interdisciplinarity, which traverses all levels
of the Danish educational system. Offering a novel perspective to
interdisciplinarity in terms of its configurations, the book
discusses the Danish educational system and its current
transformations, showing how progressive ideas are entangled with
new forms of accountability and complex responsibilities. It
identifies the concrete challenges that interdisciplinarity is
expected to solve, and the organizational changes resulting from
the solutions introduced, arguing that interdisciplinarity in
education is neither a uniform or consistent process, nor are the
kinds of disciplining it may yield. This book will appeal to
academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of
interdisciplinary education, pedagogy, comparative education and
northern European educational and welfare systems.
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.
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.
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