Disturbed by 'the stranger': State crafting through educational interventions and socio-moral reactions

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This article addresses two questions. First: How does a state, in casu the Danish welfare state, based on universalism and social rights as regards its citizens, deal with immigrants and their descendents through education? Second: How does such a state manage to make its differential treatment of human beings work legitimately, i.e., what arguments, what interventions and moralisations, are used through the workings of school education? The article carries out an analysis of policies since the 1980s and depicts the construction of ‘the stranger’ parallel to an analysis of the state crafting processes that goes on in terms of professional educational interventions in Højmarken School, a school placed in an urban poor area
Translated title of the contributionForstyrret af 'den fremmede': Stats-opbyggelse gennem pædagogiske interventioner og socio-moralske reaktioner
Original languageEnglish
Publication date5 Jul 2011
Number of pages36
Publication statusPublished - 5 Jul 2011
EventKnowledge and Value in a Globalising World. Disentangling dichotomies, quering unities. Conference held by The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Australian Anthropological Society, and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand - The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Duration: 5 Jul 2011 → 8 Jul 2011

Conference

ConferenceKnowledge and Value in a Globalising World. Disentangling dichotomies, quering unities. Conference held by The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, the Australian Anthropological Society, and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand
CountryAustralia
CityThe University of Western Australia, Perth
Period05/07/2011 → 08/07/2011

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