Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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 -- .