‘We need the money’: how welfare anxiety justifies penal and social reforms in immigration debate

Milman, Noa

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2022.2124403

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“…Next, the two policy fields were selected because they represent different political attitudes towards the deservingness of the recipients, which on a local level may spill over into different distributions of resources on the two remaining dimensions: formal support and spatio-material support. Whereas elderly people enjoy a high degree of deservingness, the opposite is the case within the field of refugee services (Milman, 2022). This research design suggests that if policy fields play a role in forming coproduction practices and structuring actor positions, such differences should emerge in this study.…”

Section: Study Design Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This policy made it illegitimate to provide services that seemed to help refugees with problems that they, in principle, should address by themselves. The lower level of formal support was grounded in a local policy, mirroring broader national political discourses for justifying the treatment of immigrants as 'ordinary citizens' (Milman, 2022) and, consequently, not gaining access to 'extra-ordinary' public or voluntary co-produced services. Consequently, fewer co-production initiatives and projects were met with support from the top management of the municipality, and fewer resources in the form of staff were allocated to this field.…”

Section: Local Ideological Legitimacy Of Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields

Henriksen,

Grubb,

Frederiksen

2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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Cross-sector co-production involving voluntary organisations in the production and delivery of social services has been adopted across many welfare states. Economic and demographic changes have led to increased involvement of volunteer initiatives in different welfare policy fields. How different field properties enable, constrain, and shape co-production practices remains, however, under researched. In this article, we address this shortcoming in a comparative case design exploring the practices of co-production within the two fields of elderly services and refugee services. We develop a conceptual framework and demonstrate that differential distribution of resources leads to diverging outcomes and perspectives for co-production. Based on a two-year in-depth study of one large Danish municipality, we find two forms of co-production practices, which reflect different field conditions. In the field of elderly services, co-production takes the form of ‘embedded’ practices, and in the field of refugee services co-production takes the form of ‘exterior’ practices. We demonstrate that each of these co-production forms entail ambiguous outcomes and antagonistic positions for voluntary and public sector actors, depending on the policy field.

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Section: Study Design Methodology and Datamentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Local Ideological Legitimacy Of Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields

Henriksen,

Grubb,

Frederiksen

2023

J. Soc. Pol.

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“…policy from the traditional Nordic welfare model with every reform. More recently, welfare chauvinism has strengthened considerably in Denmark and immigrants have been identified as a moral underclass in need of excessive penalisation and control (Milman, 2022).…”

Section: Neoclassical Economics and The International Competition Sta...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This development took a new qualitative turn in 2018 when what was called the "Ghetto Package" was enacted. Along with this reform, immigrants and asylum seekers were singled out as the moral underclass in need of penalisation and control (Milman, 2022). In public debates, the work ethic of immigrants was questioned and they were portrayed as a financial burden on the welfare state.…”

Section: Legal and Economic Dimensions Of Danish Labour Market Reform...mentioning

confidence: 99%