ABSTRACT

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 educators, nurses, and social workers. Ultimately, the article excavates three stock stories in welfare work, that is, the stock stories of compassion, potentializing, and colour-blindness. The stock stories are shown to hide race and racism in the shapes of social inequality, market exploitability, and dehumanization of the refugee, and the article thus exhibits how universalistic welfare work denies the existence of race and racism, and acts complicitly in reproducing the status quo of the modern welfare state’s racialized practices.

摘要

本文探讨了北欧否认殖民参与和同谋，以及它在丹麦难民福利工作中的运作方式。本文采用后殖民福利分析，将福利工作置于殖民社会、经济和文化关系的背景下，根据对教师、社会教育工作者、护士工会出版的四种专业期刊的阅读，开发了一种撰写叙事的方法。 , 和社会工作者。最终，文章挖掘了福利工作的三个存量故事，即慈悲、潜能和色盲的存量故事。这些股票故事以社会不平等、市场可剥削和对难民的非人化等形式隐藏了种族和种族主义，