From Integration to Deportation
Grammars of Selves and Exogenous “Others” in the State of Denmark and Beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2617044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Rytter (0000-0002-1973-2071, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0155-977X • E-ISSN: 1558-5727 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/sa.2023.670301 |
| OpenAlex | W4399312021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
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
Deportation · Immigration · Political science · African history and culture analysis · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Homo hierarchicus
A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning
Talking culture
Family Upheaval
The Annoying Difference
Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory
Purity and Danger
At the borders of the coroNation
The Concern for Sociality—Practicing Equality and Hierarchy in Denmark
The Cartoon Controversy
States of Intimacy
The failures of ‘immigrant integration’
The Humanitarianization of Child Deportation Politics
Refugees, migrants, neither, both
Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration
The Danish Path to Modernity
Between integration and repatriation - frontline experiences of how conflicting immigrant integration policies hamper the integration of young refugees in Denmark
Taking control and reorienting future aspirations
Disturbing Intimacies
I Can't Create a Future with a Temporary Permit
Legends of People, Myths of State
Frazer strikes back from the armchair
A Mind of Winter
Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond
Invisible Fences
Made in Denmark
A decade of suspicion
The imagination of 'society' in measurements of immigrant integration
Writing Against Integration
The Family of Denmark' and 'the Aliens
| Citations per year | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |