Lindberg, Annika (2020). The Production of Precarity in Denmark’s Asylum Regime. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform ZSR / Journal of social policy research, 66(4), pp. 413-439. De Gruyter Oldenbourg 10.1515/zsr-2020-0018
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The special issue discusses the intersections between social welfare and migration control, as well as how stratified access to welfare services is used to govern ‘unwanted’ groups. This article explores these intersections in Denmark’ deterrence-oriented asylum policy regime, analysing the discourses and practices whereby people seeking protection are constructed as ‘undeserving’ poor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in different sites of enforcement of Denmark’s asylum regime as well as interviews with street-level workers and people who sought asylum in Denmark, I trace how the Danish deterrence approach operates through the production of poverty and precarity among people seeking protection in asylum reception camps, deportation-oriented integration programmes, and finally, deportation camps. I show how the Danish welfare state, as a result of the merging of external and internal bordering practices, produces a condition of precarity and (non)deportability that extends from the asylum camps to those awarded temporary protection status. Hence, while the deterrence-oriented Danish policy regime has not proven ‘effective’ from the point of view of immigration control, it has served to reinforced a dualised, hierarchically ordered welfare rights’ regime that gradually erodes the rights and life opportunities of unwanted noncitizen ‘others’.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Lindberg, Elin Annika Margareta |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
ISSN: |
0514-2776 |
Publisher: |
De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Marceline Brodmann |
Date Deposited: |
31 May 2023 16:16 |
Last Modified: |
31 May 2023 16:19 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1515/zsr-2020-0018 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Asylum, precarity, welfare nationalism, Denmark, asylum camps, deportation |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/183079 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/183079 |
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