Abstract
This article explores the making of immigrant families as precarious elements in the governing of the population’s welfare within the Danish welfare nation-state since the 1970s. The emphasis is on how immigrant families became a problem of welfare governing, and what knowledge practices and welfare techniques emerged as problem-solving responses. The article analyses a diverse set of national and local administrative documents advancing a polyhedron of intelligibility by which the authors discover how problem-solving complexes responsive to immigrant families change and sediment, and ultimately, weave the fabric of a Danish welfare nation-state faced with non-Western immigration after the economic boom in the late 1960s.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Race Ethnicity and Education |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Pages (from-to) | 723-736 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISSN | 1361-3324 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Nov 2017 |
Keywords
- Faculty of Humanities
- Immigrant families
- problematization
- liberal paradox
- risk
- welfare nation-state
- Denmark
