If you are interested in understanding the current situation in Denmark, across Europe and beyond , you cannot miss this book!
Michelle Pace with Sarah El-Abd published “UN-welcome to Denmark. The paradigm shift and refugee integration”.
This book critically assesses Denmark’s migration regime by directly engaging the voices of multiple stakeholders impacted by its harshness. It puts forward the theory of the “unwelcome migrant” by undertaking an extensive analysis of the programmatic and legal foundations for the “undeserving migrant” as well as of the lived experiences of Syrian refugees, welfare professionals and private businesses tasked with supporting them. It thereby documents how the Danish migration gaze produces and perpetuates the hyperprecarity of the everyday lives of Syrians and the anxiety that overshadows the way Syrians and those who support them navigate its maze. By so doing, it traces how a once-admired, liberal, tolerant and open society with a strong reverence for human rights has turned into one of the harshest migration regimes in Europe, if not internationally.
Buy the book here!
Listen on Spotify to a conversations with Professor Michelle Pace about the book!
This series is part of “Conversations with Iris“ a podcast series on migration, diversity and displacement hosted by the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK.