If you are interested in understanding the current situation in Denmark, you cannot miss this book!
Michella Pace and Sarah El-Abd published “UN-welcome to Denmark. The paradigm shift and refugee integration”.
In this book, they critically assess 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!