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Hedetoft, Ulf

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“…Denmark has a population of approximately 5.7 million. Even though an estimated 9% of this population in 2016 had an immigrant background (Danmarks Statistik 2016: 11), Denmark is often referred to as a mono-cultural nation-state with a very homogenous population in terms of parameters like ethnicity, language and religion (Hedetoft 2006). Since the 1990s, the concept of integration has not only described societal challenges related to everyday life among the growing population of immigrants (various groups of migrants and refugees), but also created problems.…”

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Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging

Rytter

2018

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The article addresses some of the problems related to the concept of integration, which has been used (and abused) in Denmark since the 1990s to discuss socio-economic, cultural and religious challenges related to the everyday life of ethnic minorities. The concept of integration is not innocent but promotes both a specific conceptualisation of Danish society and a problematisation of immigrant minorities and their relationship to the indigenous majority. Based on the ethnographic studies conducted in Denmark in recent decades, the article attempts to disentangle the dominant social imaginary by outlining three scenarios: 'welfare reciprocity', 'host and guests' and 'the Danes as an indigenous people'. These scenarios consolidate an asymmetrical relationship between majorities and minorities because they simultaneously cast integration as desirable and impossible. Finally, inspired by Lila Abu-Lughod's seminal article 'writing against culture', the article suggests strategies of 'writing against integration' in order to regain the critical potential of academic analysis.

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Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging

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2018

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“…This often leads politicians, commentators, and researchers alike to describe Denmark as characterized by a "homogenous population"-ethnically, socially, and culturally (Gundelach 2002;Schmidt 2020). Hence, Denmark has been described as "monocultural" (Hedetoft 2006) and the Danish population portrayed as "a tribe" (en stamme) (Rasmussen 2008), a term that indicates a particularly intimate kinship and community within the nation (Rytter 2010). Similarly, both anthropological and ethnological research have discussed how homogeneity, equality, and sameness are emphasized as central values in Denmark (and the rest of the Nordic region), while differences are undercommunicated because "deep down, we agree" (i grunden er vi enige) (Bruun et al 2011).…”

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From Integration to Deportation

Rytter

2023

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Following the so-called “paradigm shift” in Danish refugee policy in 2019, the previous ambition of “integration” was replaced by a state strategy of revocation and deportation. This article suggests that the political change reflects the development of a particular “grammar of identity,” where refugees are viewed as exogenous “others” who are neither seen nor recognized as part of the Danish nation and welfare state. The grammar tends to cast externalization as a reasonable and necessary solution to current challenges—best illustrated by the utopic–dystopic vision of sending asylum-seekers off to camps in Rwanda. Finally, the article discusses the risk of the current grammar transmuting into an “anti-grammar” of ethnic annihilation by means of externalization and deportation.

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“…Indeed, scholars have concluded that immigrants in Denmark are often described as different and are therefore seen as outsiders (Hervik 2004;Larsen 2011: 344;Rytter 2010). With a small population of about 5.7 million inhabitants, Denmark is often seen as a monocultural nation-state based on homogeneity in relation to ethnicity, religion, and language, and with a narrow defi nition of who belongs (Hedetoft 2006). Homogeneity is a norm in Scandinavian countries, where differences can be perceived as a threat to society (Gullestad 2002).…”

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5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater

Bune

2022

Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.In a book devoted to the Middle Eastern refugee crisis, we must begin by thanking the many refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria who made this book possible by sharing their lives and stories with us. Many of them have faced incredible hardships and unmitigated human suffering. We dedicate this book to them-hoping that they achieve the safety and settled futures to which they ardently aspire. This book emerged from a meeting that took place at Yale University in September 2019. The meeting brought together for the fi rst time anthropologists studying Middle Eastern refugee populations in various Middle Eastern, European, and North American settings. Here, anthropologists were able to discuss the ways in which war has led to refugee fl ight from the Middle East, and how resettlement in various host countries has unfolded. Their work, now published in this volume, speaks to the cultural, political, and legal challenges that lead to regimes of exclusion in some settings, and regimes of inclusion in others. We are proud of and grateful to these dedicated anthropologists, who are seeking to humanize the vitriolic discourses and political debates surrounding Middle Eastern refugee resettlement in Europe and North America.

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Divergens eller konvergens? Perspektiver i den dansk-svenske sammenstilling

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Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging

Writing Against Integration: Danish Imaginaries of Culture, Race and Belonging

From Integration to Deportation

5 “I Live Here; I Have a Right to Be Here” An Afghan Refugee’s Disorientations and Insistence on Inclusion through Theater

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