Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

Dalia Abdelhady is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Lund University Nina Gren is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Lund University Martin Joormann is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology of Law at Lund University -- .

1 Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe: an introduction – Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, and Martin Joormann

Part I: Governing refugees
2 Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems – Martin Joormann
3 Lesson for the future or threat to sovereignty? Contesting the meaning of the 2015 refugee crisis in Sweden – Admir Skodo
4 Representations of the refugee Crisis in Denmark: deterrence polices and refugee strategies – Martin Bak Jørgensen
5 Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden – Annika Lindberg

Part II: Disciplining refugees
6 Images of crisis and the crisis of images: a visual analysis of four frames of representation of ‘refugeness’ in Swedish newspapers – Jelena Jovicic
7 Media constructions of the refugee crisis in Sweden: institutions and the challenges of refugee governance – Dalia Abdelhady
8 (De-)legitimation of migration: a critical study of social media discourses – Marie Sundström and Hedvig Obenius

Part III: The Meaning of refugeeness
9 Living bureaucratization: young Palestinian men encountering a Swedish introductory program for refugees – Nina Gren
10 Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany – Wendy Pearlman
11 The trauma of waiting: understanding the violence of the benevolent welfare state – Nerina Weiss
12 Bureaucratised banality: asylum and immobility in Britain, Denmark and Sweden – Victoria Canning -- .