Restricting the Right to Family Migration in Denmark: When Human Rights Collide with a Welfare State under Pressure

Bech, Emily Cochran; Mouritsen, Per

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“…Although some scholars have looked at emotional work done by bureaucrats within the marriage migration system (Eggebø 2013) or their assessment and management of the applicants' emotions (Pellander 2015), less attention has been given to how applications in themselves may be said to do affective "work". In addition, research on the Danish attachment requirement tends to focus on the structural and/or personal effects of the legislation (Block 2015;Bech & Mouritsen 2013;Olsen, Liisberg & Kjaerum 2004;Rytter 2010;Schultz-Nielsen and Tranaes 2009;Staver 2014). Only a few researchers have made the application packets' legal documents themselves an object of study.…”

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Documenting Attachment: <i>Affective border control in applications for family reunification</i>

Jeholm

Bissenbakker

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Migration politics often seem to presuppose national belonging as a given fact (Yuval-Davis 2011). However, as national belonging seem to denote both a strictly juridical relation and, simultaneously, less defi nable emotional attachments to a nation, it may be diffi cult to prove such belonging. How does one document national belonging when that belonging's juridical sanction is in question? In the following, we invite the reader to think of the

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Documenting Attachment: <i>Affective border control in applications for family reunification</i>

Jeholm

Bissenbakker

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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“…Over the past two decades, legislative changes in many European countries have made it increasingly difficult for immigrants and their offspring to marry partners from abroad (Bech & Mouritsen 2013;de Hart 2015;Eggebø & Brekke 2019). While considering Michel Foucault's term 'biopolitics' (Apatinga 2017;Foucault 1980;Lemke 2001), the tightened policies can be seen as a means to protect neoliberal nation states from the perceived harmful consequences of outside influences.…”

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Challenging Muslim Family Practices – Investigating a Danish Policy Initiative’s Reception by Its Target Group

Liversage

2024

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Nation states want to control their populations, including how they reproduce. In the present era of migration, this involves not only restricting marriage migration from ethnic minorities' countries of origin, but also involves attempts to affect Muslim marriages within their borders, as some such marriages can be considered 'anti-modern' and a potential threat to the state. Taking a governmentality approach -how states seek to shape 'the conduct of conduct' of its citizens -I explore the workings of a Danish policy initiative entitled the 'Dialogue Corps'. The Corps members, who all have an ethnic minority background, conduct workshops with the particular aim of reducing parental involvement in ethnic minority youth's partner choices. Based on observations and interview data, I document how workshop participants may actively resist Corps members' problematisation of their intimate practices. Instead, participants both challenge the view that majority Danish practices are inherently superior and point out that state interference may make lives worse, rather than better, in ethnic minority families. While the policy initiative has the stated aim of improving the lives of ethnic minority youth, it may instead (re)produce notions of these youth as 'Other', thus positioning them unfavourably within hierarchical schemes of cultural and racial difference.

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Attachment Required: The Affective Governmentality of Marriage Migration in the Danish Aliens Act 2000–2018

Bissenbakker

2019

International Political Sociology

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Restricting the Right to Family Migration in Denmark: When Human Rights Collide with a Welfare State under Pressure

Cited by 4 publications

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Documenting Attachment: <i>Affective border control in applications for family reunification</i>

Documenting Attachment: <i>Affective border control in applications for family reunification</i>

Challenging Muslim Family Practices – Investigating a Danish Policy Initiative’s Reception by Its Target Group

Attachment Required: The Affective Governmentality of Marriage Migration in the Danish Aliens Act 2000–2018

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