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The reconfiguration of Swedish nationalism after the Syrian refugee ’crisis’

Sofos, Spyros LU (2018) In Nya former av nationalism
Abstract
The “nativisation” of welfare provision implicitly accepts the SD’s redefinition of refugees as undeserving others and gives credence to its chauvinistic welfare policies. Not only does the restriction of entitlements to non-native Swedes effectively constitute a symbolic bordering practice that circumscribes a restrictive and nativistic understanding of national identity, where solidarity is reserved, not for the needy, but for the ‘true Swedes’, but also it is represented as ‘not quite enough’ by the SD who are intent to capitalize from the transformation of a symbolic binary us v them logic to an antagonism over scarce resources.
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Nationalism, racism, welfare nationalism, Sverige Democraterna
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Popular Science
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Nya former av nationalism
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Goethe Institut Schweden
language
English
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https://www.goethe.de/ins/se/sv/kul/sup/nnm/21257746.html
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  author       = {{Sofos, Spyros}},
  keywords     = {{Nationalism; racism; welfare nationalism; Sverige Democraterna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Goethe Institut Schweden}},
  series       = {{Nya former av nationalism}},
  title        = {{The reconfiguration of Swedish nationalism after the Syrian refugee ’crisis’}},
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  year         = {{2018}},
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