Gendered racism: The emancipation of ‘Muslim’ and ‘immigrant’ women in Danish welfare politics and professionalism
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Gendered racism : The emancipation of ‘Muslim’ and ‘immigrant’ women in Danish welfare politics and professionalism. / Brodersen, Marianne; Øland, Trine.
In: Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2023, p. 130-146.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Gendered racism
T2 - The emancipation of ‘Muslim’ and ‘immigrant’ women in Danish welfare politics and professionalism
AU - Brodersen, Marianne
AU - Øland, Trine
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article examines the intersecting oppressions of Danish welfare politics and its emerging inter est in emancipating ‘immigrant’ women and girls. It draws on Patricia Hill Collins’ notion of controlling images and, based on a documentary text corpus, it identifies how the images of the unfree immigrant housewife and the inhibited immigrant girl are formed through oxymoronic liberal arguments of care and control. The article demonstrates how this plays out in an assemblage of policy documents and suggests why welfare professionalism is called upon to ‘rescue’ ‘immigrant’ women and girls, situating welfare politics and professionalism within the racial welfare state and its racial capitalist andOrientalist logics. The analyses demonstrate how gendered and racialized signifiers help to structure welfare politics and professionalism, and how a space of emancipation is intertwined with a global economic division of labor. The article suggests that racialized welfare politics and professionalism are permeated by the desire to emancipate women, which remains a powerful impulse within Danish welfare state capitalism, liberalism and social-democratic reasoning.
AB - This article examines the intersecting oppressions of Danish welfare politics and its emerging inter est in emancipating ‘immigrant’ women and girls. It draws on Patricia Hill Collins’ notion of controlling images and, based on a documentary text corpus, it identifies how the images of the unfree immigrant housewife and the inhibited immigrant girl are formed through oxymoronic liberal arguments of care and control. The article demonstrates how this plays out in an assemblage of policy documents and suggests why welfare professionalism is called upon to ‘rescue’ ‘immigrant’ women and girls, situating welfare politics and professionalism within the racial welfare state and its racial capitalist andOrientalist logics. The analyses demonstrate how gendered and racialized signifiers help to structure welfare politics and professionalism, and how a space of emancipation is intertwined with a global economic division of labor. The article suggests that racialized welfare politics and professionalism are permeated by the desire to emancipate women, which remains a powerful impulse within Danish welfare state capitalism, liberalism and social-democratic reasoning.
U2 - 10.7146/kkf.v36i2.134282
DO - 10.7146/kkf.v36i2.134282
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 130
EP - 146
JO - Kvinder, Køn & Forskning
JF - Kvinder, Køn & Forskning
SN - 0907-6182
IS - 2
ER -
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