In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest
self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its
borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months
later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016, Sweden closed
its border with Denmark. This closure makes a startling reversal of
Sweden’s open borders to refugees and contravenes free movement in
the Schengen Area, a founding principle of the European Union. What
happened? This book sets out to explain this reversal. In her new and
compelling book, Vanessa Barker explores the Swedish case study to
challenge several key paradigms for understanding penal order in the
twenty-first century and makes an important contribution to our
understanding of punishment and welfare states. She questions the
dominance of neoliberalism and political economy as the main
explanation for the penalization of others, migrants and foreign
nationals, and develops an alternative theoretical framework based on
the internal logic of the welfare state and democratic theory about
citizenship, incorporation, and difference, paying particular
attention to questions of belonging, worthiness, and ethnic and gender
hierarchies. Her book develops the concept of penal nationalism as an
important form of penal power in the twenty-first century, providing a
bridge between border control and punishment studies.
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ISBN
9781351980135
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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