Bureaucracy, Integration and Suspicion in the Welfare State

Mark Graham

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English

Routledge
30 June 2020

Social issues & processes; Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Welfare & benefit systems

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

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. While the main cases are from Sweden, examples are included from the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. Mark Graham examines how suspicion is woven into the fabric of welfare bureaucracies with potential adverse consequences for the people they serve. He complicates our understanding of what Islamophobia means, and how it is expressed and created, by exploring contexts in which the logic of ""othering"" Muslims operates, but where explicit Islamophobia itself is absent. The book starts with Swedish public-sector bureaucracies and attempts by staff to make sense of Muslim refugee clients with categories and models that reappear in wider society. It goes on to explore the logic of integration policies, official concepts of culture, Swedish multiculturalism, educational strategies in schools, and debates surrounding ""genuine"" and ""false"" refugees. In all cases, the homologies between these different socio-cultural domains are explored.

By: Mark Graham
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367585051
ISBN 10: 0367585057
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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