ABSTRACT

Confronted with global migration pressures, European countries face the dual challenges of border control and the incorporation of immigrants into society. Danish immigration and integration policies aim to restrict the influx of refugees and to develop newcomers’ sense of civic responsibility. We analyse 2017 policy problematisations and local integration policy workers’ experiences with integrating young, newly arrived refugees under the mandatory municipal integration programme. We find that these policies lead to paradoxical effects when integration goals interact with immigration laws that create precarious temporary living conditions. Moreover, when integration is problematised as an exclusive problem of refugees’ employability and prompt economic self-sufficiency. The policy problematisations neglect the needs of young refugees by overlooking critical aspects of social and cultural integration and obscuring the possibilities for individually tailored services, which, from frontline integration workers’ perspective, are necessary to realise young refugees’ integration.

摘要

面对全球移民压力，欧洲国家面临边境管制和移民融入社会的双重挑战。丹麦的移民和融合政策旨在限制难民涌入并培养新移民的公民责任感。我们分析了 2017 年的政策问题和地方融合政策工作者在强制性市政融合计划下融合年轻、新抵达的难民的经验。我们发现，当融合目标与创造不稳定临时生活条件的移民法相互作用时，这些政策会导致矛盾的影响。此外，当融合问题被视为难民就业能力和促进经济自给自足的专有问题时。