L Sparre
Biographic Data
| ID | 30865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Sparre |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sparre |
| SIGNATURE | SPARRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7586-4899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care (Mis)match
In Denmark, a growing number of care workers are multilingual. To address labor shortage, municipalities recruit resident migrants for training in elderly care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how migrant care work trainees' struggles with Danish language affect their relationships with older citizens and influence supervisors' work practices. We show how supervisors arrange "good" care relations by matching multilingual trainees with…
Contingent on paradoxical policies
Syrian refugees and Ukrainian labour migrants are among the increasing number of migrants in Denmark who have enrolled in training programmes to become skilled care workers in response to the Danish state’s initiatives to increase labour supply for public-sector elderly care. However, stricter immigration legislation together with regulations concerning state-financed education complicate training, employment and residence for these migrants. Thi…
Hvis du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm
Det er naturligvis dejligt med læsere, når et forskningsprojekt munder ud i en bog som “Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring” (Rytter, Sparre, Ismail og Liversage 2021), der kaster lys over et i dansk sammenhæng hidtil ubeskrevet område – nemlig indvandrer- og flygtningefamiliers strategier i forhold til ældreomsorg. Men i stedet for at forholde sig til bogens problemstilling om omsorgsarbejde og ældre…
Silence Agreements in Danish Elderly Care
This paper explores the composite of elderly immigrants, self-appointed helpers (selvudpegede hjælpere) and care managers (visitatorer) in Danish municipalities. Free elderly care is a common good in the Danish welfare state. Instead of using the homecare service provided by the municipality, many elderly citizens with a Muslim immigrant background prefer to have a family member contracted as their self-appointed helper. The self-appointed helper…
Domestication of Difference
This article employs Hage’s concept of “domestication” as a lens for understanding how various forms of civic engagement among Coptic, Assyrian, and Chaldean Christian migrant communities in Denmark reproduce and contest a Danish model of citizenship, a particular construction of both the national subject and its Others. While churches are a primary place for civic engagement among Middle Eastern Christians as an ethnoreligious group, internally …
Food as care and friction in late life
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Gendered care, empathy and un/doing difference in the Danish welfare state
This article explores how municipal care managers negotiate tensions in policy logics and state discourses in encounters with ethnic minority families in Denmark. It focuses on the “self-appointed helper arrangement”, an option in the Danish Social Service Act under which municipalities can employ family members to care for older citizen at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the consequences of this care arrangement from the perspec…
(In)visibility and the Muslim other
This article investigates identity and belonging among Christians of Iraqi origin in Denmark through an analysis of their narratives of flight and interreligious relations, with a particular focus on the underlying dynamics of a widespread anti-Muslim discourse. Based on qualitative interviews and informal conversations with Chaldean and Assyrian Christians from Iraq, I examine how they presented themselves to me through their stories of flight f…
Between Care and Contract
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing number of immigrant families utilise an option in the Social Service Act, under which municipalities can contract a family member to take care of an elderly citizen at home. Due to the special construct …
Experimenting with alternative futures in Cairo
This article investigates young middle-class Egyptians’ engagement with the religious and national visions of Resala, Egypt’s largest Muslim youth NGO, and how they come to rethink themselves existentially and politically through this commitment, in the context of the 2011 uprising and its aftermath. I show how their volunteering through Resala, shaped by specific sociopolitical circumstances, paved the way for personal hopes to develop into utop…
Incense and holy bread
This article investigates how two Middle Eastern Christian churches in Denmark are constructed as particular sensorial spaces that invite attendees to participate in and identify with specific times and spaces. As with other Christian groups, rituals of the Sunday mass constitute a highlight of the activities that confirm the congregations' faith and community, but for members of a minority faith, these rituals also serve other functions related …
Middle Eastern Christian Spaces in Europe
Despite little scholarly attention, Middle Eastern Christian Churches are a well-established element of the European religious landscape. Based on collaborative research, this article examines how three mutual field visits facilitated a deeper understanding of the complexity that characterises church establishment and activities among Iraqi, Assyrian/Syriac and Coptic Orthodox Christians in the uk , Sweden and Denmark. Exploring analytical dimens…
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities
PART I: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ISLAM WITH THE HELP OF SOCIAL THEORY 1. Modernity, Successive Modernities, and the Formation of the Modern Subject 2. Modern Religion, Religious Organizations and Religious Social Action 3. Islamic Reform and the Construction of Modern Muslim Subjectivities PART II: POLITICS OF MUSLIM SUBJECTIVITIES IN JORDAN 4. State and Islam in Jordan: The Contested Islamic Modern 5. Char…
Educated Women in Syria
In recent decades, Islam has enhanced its role as an important social and ideological force in Arab societies. In this context, a central debate concerns the desirable role and position of women, the so-called "woman question." Arab states are no longer alone in defining national community when it comes to gender roles and womanhood: almost everywhere Islamic actors are gaining influence at the expense of secular nationalists. When it comes to th…
Middle Eastern Christian Spaces in Europe
Despite little scholarly attention, Middle Eastern Christian Churches are a well-established element of the European religious landscape. Based on collaborative research, this article examines how three mutual field visits facilitated a deeper understanding of the complexity that characterises church establishment and activities among Iraqi, Assyrian/Syriac and Coptic Orthodox Christians in the uk , Sweden and Denmark. Exploring analytical dimens…
(In)visibility and the Muslim other
This article investigates identity and belonging among Christians of Iraqi origin in Denmark through an analysis of their narratives of flight and interreligious relations, with a particular focus on the underlying dynamics of a widespread anti-Muslim discourse. Based on qualitative interviews and informal conversations with Chaldean and Assyrian Christians from Iraq, I examine how they presented themselves to me through their stories of flight f…
Incense and holy bread
This article investigates how two Middle Eastern Christian churches in Denmark are constructed as particular sensorial spaces that invite attendees to participate in and identify with specific times and spaces. As with other Christian groups, rituals of the Sunday mass constitute a highlight of the activities that confirm the congregations' faith and community, but for members of a minority faith, these rituals also serve other functions related …
Food as care and friction in late life
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Contingent on paradoxical policies
Syrian refugees and Ukrainian labour migrants are among the increasing number of migrants in Denmark who have enrolled in training programmes to become skilled care workers in response to the Danish state’s initiatives to increase labour supply for public-sector elderly care. However, stricter immigration legislation together with regulations concerning state-financed education complicate training, employment and residence for these migrants. Thi…
Gendered care, empathy and un/doing difference in the Danish welfare state
This article explores how municipal care managers negotiate tensions in policy logics and state discourses in encounters with ethnic minority families in Denmark. It focuses on the “self-appointed helper arrangement”, an option in the Danish Social Service Act under which municipalities can employ family members to care for older citizen at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the consequences of this care arrangement from the perspec…
Between Care and Contract
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing number of immigrant families utilise an option in the Social Service Act, under which municipalities can contract a family member to take care of an elderly citizen at home. Due to the special construct …
Educated Women in Syria
In recent decades, Islam has enhanced its role as an important social and ideological force in Arab societies. In this context, a central debate concerns the desirable role and position of women, the so-called "woman question." Arab states are no longer alone in defining national community when it comes to gender roles and womanhood: almost everywhere Islamic actors are gaining influence at the expense of secular nationalists. When it comes to th…
Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities
PART I: THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ISLAM WITH THE HELP OF SOCIAL THEORY 1. Modernity, Successive Modernities, and the Formation of the Modern Subject 2. Modern Religion, Religious Organizations and Religious Social Action 3. Islamic Reform and the Construction of Modern Muslim Subjectivities PART II: POLITICS OF MUSLIM SUBJECTIVITIES IN JORDAN 4. State and Islam in Jordan: The Contested Islamic Modern 5. Char…
Middle Eastern Christian Spaces in Europe
Despite little scholarly attention, Middle Eastern Christian Churches are a well-established element of the European religious landscape. Based on collaborative research, this article examines how three mutual field visits facilitated a deeper understanding of the complexity that characterises church establishment and activities among Iraqi, Assyrian/Syriac and Coptic Orthodox Christians in the uk , Sweden and Denmark. Exploring analytical dimens…
Incense and holy bread
This article investigates how two Middle Eastern Christian churches in Denmark are constructed as particular sensorial spaces that invite attendees to participate in and identify with specific times and spaces. As with other Christian groups, rituals of the Sunday mass constitute a highlight of the activities that confirm the congregations' faith and community, but for members of a minority faith, these rituals also serve other functions related …
Experimenting with alternative futures in Cairo
This article investigates young middle-class Egyptians’ engagement with the religious and national visions of Resala, Egypt’s largest Muslim youth NGO, and how they come to rethink themselves existentially and politically through this commitment, in the context of the 2011 uprising and its aftermath. I show how their volunteering through Resala, shaped by specific sociopolitical circumstances, paved the way for personal hopes to develop into utop…
Domestication of Difference
This article employs Hage’s concept of “domestication” as a lens for understanding how various forms of civic engagement among Coptic, Assyrian, and Chaldean Christian migrant communities in Denmark reproduce and contest a Danish model of citizenship, a particular construction of both the national subject and its Others. While churches are a primary place for civic engagement among Middle Eastern Christians as an ethnoreligious group, internally …
Food as care and friction in late life
Food is a central aspect of care in late life. This article focuses on the growing number of elderly Muslim immigrants in Denmark who on the basis of Service Act §94 can have a family member employed by the municipality as their “self-appointed helper.” The task is often given to a spouse, daughter or daughter-in-law, whose task is then to provide the care services for which the elderly person has been referred. Usually this would be undertaken b…
Gendered care, empathy and un/doing difference in the Danish welfare state
This article explores how municipal care managers negotiate tensions in policy logics and state discourses in encounters with ethnic minority families in Denmark. It focuses on the “self-appointed helper arrangement”, an option in the Danish Social Service Act under which municipalities can employ family members to care for older citizen at home. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the consequences of this care arrangement from the perspec…
(In)visibility and the Muslim other
This article investigates identity and belonging among Christians of Iraqi origin in Denmark through an analysis of their narratives of flight and interreligious relations, with a particular focus on the underlying dynamics of a widespread anti-Muslim discourse. Based on qualitative interviews and informal conversations with Chaldean and Assyrian Christians from Iraq, I examine how they presented themselves to me through their stories of flight f…
Between Care and Contract
In Europe, a growing population of aging citizens have migrant background, and many have their origin in non-Western countries. Often, care arrangements in these families are different from those of the majority populations. In Denmark, a growing number of immigrant families utilise an option in the Social Service Act, under which municipalities can contract a family member to take care of an elderly citizen at home. Due to the special construct …
Silence Agreements in Danish Elderly Care
This paper explores the composite of elderly immigrants, self-appointed helpers (selvudpegede hjælpere) and care managers (visitatorer) in Danish municipalities. Free elderly care is a common good in the Danish welfare state. Instead of using the homecare service provided by the municipality, many elderly citizens with a Muslim immigrant background prefer to have a family member contracted as their self-appointed helper. The self-appointed helper…
Hvis du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm
Det er naturligvis dejligt med læsere, når et forskningsprojekt munder ud i en bog som “Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring” (Rytter, Sparre, Ismail og Liversage 2021), der kaster lys over et i dansk sammenhæng hidtil ubeskrevet område – nemlig indvandrer- og flygtningefamiliers strategier i forhold til ældreomsorg. Men i stedet for at forholde sig til bogens problemstilling om omsorgsarbejde og ældre…
Contingent on paradoxical policies
Syrian refugees and Ukrainian labour migrants are among the increasing number of migrants in Denmark who have enrolled in training programmes to become skilled care workers in response to the Danish state’s initiatives to increase labour supply for public-sector elderly care. However, stricter immigration legislation together with regulations concerning state-financed education complicate training, employment and residence for these migrants. Thi…
Care (Mis)match
In Denmark, a growing number of care workers are multilingual. To address labor shortage, municipalities recruit resident migrants for training in elderly care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore how migrant care work trainees' struggles with Danish language affect their relationships with older citizens and influence supervisors' work practices. We show how supervisors arrange "good" care relations by matching multilingual trainees with…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Danish (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)