Statecrafting on the fringes : studies of welfare work addressing the other /
Trine Øland, Christian Ydesen, Marta Padovan-Özdemir and Bolette Moldenhawer.
- 540 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The Othered and Professionals of the Post-1945 Welfare State / Statist Capital and the Public Good of the Danish Welfare Nation-State,1945-1970S / Fabricating a Welfare Civilization / The Dynamics of Public Welfare Services for Immigrants and Refugees in the Danish Welfare State / Contributors. Trine Øland, Christian Ydesen, Marta Padovan-Ozdemir, Bolette Moldenhawer -- Christian Ydesen -- Marta Padovan-Ozdemir -- Trine Øand -- 1. 2. 3. 4.
Statecrafting on the Fringes' draws critical attention to welfare practices addressing the other: dislocated people within the post-1945 welfare state. The book concerns educational work, social work, and healthcare work addressing Greenlanders, the German minority, problem children, as well as immigrants and refugees. Through historical and sociological studies of welfare work understood as statecrafting practices, which are strengthened by the presence of the other within the Danish welfare nation-state, the authors present critical analyses of the humanitarian imperialism and the civilizing missions addressing the other.0The book thus challenges the idealization of the Nordic welfare state model and characterizes Danish welfare universalism as intertwined with national integrationism and understandings of cultural superiority. At its core, 'Statecrafting on the Fringes' helps us understand the inner workings of a much-celebrated welfare nation-state, what its implications are in an era of globalization and migration, and how we could think about it differently.