Bureaucracy, Integration and Suspicion in the Welfare State

ISBN-13: 9780367585051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Mark Graham

Opis

This book explores how the often well-meaning routines and assumptions of a generous welfare state can reflect and even contribute to the stigmatisation of refugees and Muslims in Europe today. Mark Graham examines how suspicion is woven into the fabric of welfare bureaucracies with potential adverse consequences for the people they serve. He co

Spis treści

List of Figures; Preface; 1. Homologies; 2. The Challenges of Integration; 3. Dealing with Culture; 4. In Context; 5. Classifications at Work; 6. Muslim Persons; 7. Mimetic Muslims; 8. Doubts and Suspicions; 9. A Fractured Mirror: Some Final Reflections

O autorze

Mark Graham is Professor and Head of Department in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.