Disturbed by the stranger

Trine Øland; Bolette Moldenhawer

Disturbed by the stranger

Department of Communication

Abstract

This article addresses two questions. First: How does a state, in casu the Danish welfare state, based on universalism and social rights as regards its citizens, deal with immigrants and their descendents through education? Second: How does such a state manage to make its differential treatment of human beings work legitimately, i.e., what arguments, what interventions and moralisations, are used through the workings of school education? The article carries out an analysis of policies since the 1980s and depicts the construction of ‘the stranger’ parallel to an analysis of the state crafting processes that goes on in terms of professional educational interventions in Højmarken School, a school placed in an urban poor area

Original language	Danish
Publication date	15 Sept 2011
Number of pages	28
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2011
Event	European Educational Research Association Conference (ECER), Network: Policy Studies and Politics of Education - Berlin, Germany Duration: 13 Sept 2011 → 16 Sept 2011

Conference

Conference	European Educational Research Association Conference (ECER), Network: Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	13/09/2011 → 16/09/2011

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