Trine Øland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1251908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trine Øland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trine |
| FAMILY NAME | Øland |
| SIGNATURE | ØLAND T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1286-9032 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I have carte blanche to solve things’
This article examines how municipal ‘integration workers’ in Denmark indirectly partake in effectuating the country’s restrictive immigration and integration policies. It draws on Dean’s notion of authoritarian governmentality, Rothberg’s concept of the implicated subject, and interviews with thirty integration workers from six Danish municipalities which identify the interventions and the complex integration practices that transpire locally. The…
Have we ever heard about Ukrainians causing trouble?' How integration workers in Denmark make sense of the special act on displaced Ukrainians
Restrictive Danish asylum and integration policies were disrupted when, in March 2022, special acts on displaced Ukrainians were launched. Based on narrative interviews with 17 integration workers across four Danish municipalities, and a supplementary documentary assemblage, this article explores how implicated integration workers handled the softer approach to Ukrainians within broader affective economies of the Danish welfare state. It identifi…
Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”
Within integration programs and practices, refugee women are repeatedly offered rescue and emancipation. This article explores how emancipation intersects with material and social injustices of integration practices, and how refugee women in particular become subjects for emancipation. It examines the bordering practices of integration and emancipation, and identifies how integration practices symbolize refugee women as, here called, “oppressed,”…
Montage and the illumination of developmental thinking in welfare work
This article illuminates and interrupts the existence of progress as an imperative haunting welfare work. The article argues that there are forces and structures of welfare work that the dominating ways of approaching history leave unexamined and that this insight calls for a more complex relationship with history. Based on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the article explores how the montage as an analytical performance can illuminate th…
Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees
Denied, but effective – stock stories in Danish welfare work with refugees
This article explores the Nordic denial of colonial involvement and complicity and the way it operates in welfare work with refugees in Denmark. Deploying a postcolonial welfare analytics that puts welfare work in a context of colonially social, economic, and cultural relations, the article develops a methodology of composing narratives, based on readings of four professional journals published by the labour unions of schoolteachers, social educa…
Disturbed by ‘the stranger’
This article addresses two questions. First, how does a state, in casu the Danish welfare state, based on universalism and social rights as regards its citizens, deal with immigrants and their descendants through education? Second, how does such a state manage to make its differential treatment of human beings work legitimately, that is, what arguments, what interventions and moralisations, are used through the workings of school education? The a…
Human potential’ and progressive pedagogy
This article examines the cultural constructs of progressive pedagogy in Danish school pedagogy and its emerging focus on the child’s human potential from the 1920s to the 1950s. It draws on Foucault’s notion of ‘dispositifs’ and the ‘elements of history,’ encircling a complex transformation of continuity and discontinuity of progressive pedagogy. The Danish context is identified as being part of an international and scientific enlightenment move…
Denied, but effective – stock stories in Danish welfare work with refugees
This article explores the Nordic denial of colonial involvement and complicity and the way it operates in welfare work with refugees in Denmark. Deploying a postcolonial welfare analytics that puts welfare work in a context of colonially social, economic, and cultural relations, the article develops a methodology of composing narratives, based on readings of four professional journals published by the labour unions of schoolteachers, social educa…
Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”
Within integration programs and practices, refugee women are repeatedly offered rescue and emancipation. This article explores how emancipation intersects with material and social injustices of integration practices, and how refugee women in particular become subjects for emancipation. It examines the bordering practices of integration and emancipation, and identifies how integration practices symbolize refugee women as, here called, “oppressed,”…
Disturbed by ‘the stranger’
This article addresses two questions. First, how does a state, in casu the Danish welfare state, based on universalism and social rights as regards its citizens, deal with immigrants and their descendants through education? Second, how does such a state manage to make its differential treatment of human beings work legitimately, that is, what arguments, what interventions and moralisations, are used through the workings of school education? The a…
Human potential’ and progressive pedagogy
This article examines the cultural constructs of progressive pedagogy in Danish school pedagogy and its emerging focus on the child’s human potential from the 1920s to the 1950s. It draws on Foucault’s notion of ‘dispositifs’ and the ‘elements of history,’ encircling a complex transformation of continuity and discontinuity of progressive pedagogy. The Danish context is identified as being part of an international and scientific enlightenment move…
Disturbed by ‘the stranger’
This article addresses two questions. First, how does a state, in casu the Danish welfare state, based on universalism and social rights as regards its citizens, deal with immigrants and their descendants through education? Second, how does such a state manage to make its differential treatment of human beings work legitimately, that is, what arguments, what interventions and moralisations, are used through the workings of school education? The a…
Denied, but effective – stock stories in Danish welfare work with refugees
This article explores the Nordic denial of colonial involvement and complicity and the way it operates in welfare work with refugees in Denmark. Deploying a postcolonial welfare analytics that puts welfare work in a context of colonially social, economic, and cultural relations, the article develops a methodology of composing narratives, based on readings of four professional journals published by the labour unions of schoolteachers, social educa…
Montage and the illumination of developmental thinking in welfare work
This article illuminates and interrupts the existence of progress as an imperative haunting welfare work. The article argues that there are forces and structures of welfare work that the dominating ways of approaching history leave unexamined and that this insight calls for a more complex relationship with history. Based on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the article explores how the montage as an analytical performance can illuminate th…
Racism in Danish Welfare Work with Refugees
Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”
Within integration programs and practices, refugee women are repeatedly offered rescue and emancipation. This article explores how emancipation intersects with material and social injustices of integration practices, and how refugee women in particular become subjects for emancipation. It examines the bordering practices of integration and emancipation, and identifies how integration practices symbolize refugee women as, here called, “oppressed,”…
I have carte blanche to solve things’
This article examines how municipal ‘integration workers’ in Denmark indirectly partake in effectuating the country’s restrictive immigration and integration policies. It draws on Dean’s notion of authoritarian governmentality, Rothberg’s concept of the implicated subject, and interviews with thirty integration workers from six Danish municipalities which identify the interventions and the complex integration practices that transpire locally. The…
Have we ever heard about Ukrainians causing trouble?' How integration workers in Denmark make sense of the special act on displaced Ukrainians
Restrictive Danish asylum and integration policies were disrupted when, in March 2022, special acts on displaced Ukrainians were launched. Based on narrative interviews with 17 integration workers across four Danish municipalities, and a supplementary documentary assemblage, this article explores how implicated integration workers handled the softer approach to Ukrainians within broader affective economies of the Danish welfare state. It identifi…
Sociology (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works)