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Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 09:53:08AM via free access Deportation limbo Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 09:53:08AM via free access POLITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY The Political Ethnography series is an outlet for ethnographic research into politics and administration and builds an interdisciplinary platform for a readership inter- ested in qualitative research in this area. Such work cuts across traditional scholarly boundaries of political science, public administration, anthropology, social policy studies and development studies and facilitates a conversation across disciplines. It will provoke a re-thinking of how researchers can understand politics and administration. Previously published titles The absurdity of bureaucracy: How implementation works Nina Holm Vohnsen Politics of waiting: Workfare, post-Soviet austerity and the ethics of freedom Liene Ozoliņa Diplomacy and lobbying during Turkey’s Europeanisation: The private life of politics Bilge Firat Dramas at Westminster: Select committees and the quest for accountability Marc Geddes When politics meets bureaucracy: Rules, norms, conformity and cheating Christian Lo Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 09:53:08AM via free access Deportation limbo State violence and contestations in the Nordics Annika Lindberg Manchester University Press Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 09:53:08AM via free access Copyright © Annika Lindberg 2022 The right of Annika Lindberg to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This electronic edition has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence, thanks to the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the author(s) and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons .org /licenses /by -nc -nd /4 .0/ Cover image: Thomas Elsted Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL www .man ches teru nive rsit ypress .co .uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Annika Lindberg’s inaugural dissertation was submitted in the fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor rerum socialum at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Bern. The faculty accepted this work as dissertation on 19 September 2019 at the request of the two advisors Christian Joppke and Shahram Khosravi, without wishing to take a position on the view. The dissertation has been re-written and developed for the purpose of this monograph. ISBN 978 1 5261 6087 4 hardback First published 2022 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 09:53:08AM via free access The power relations that characterize any historically embedded society are never as transparently clear as the names we give to them imply. Power can be invisible, it can be fantastic, it can be dull and routine. It can be obvious, it can reach you by the baton of the police, it can speak the language of your thoughts and desires. It can feel like remote control, it can exhilarate like liberation, it can travel through time, and it can drown you in the present. It is dense and superficial, it can cause bodily injury, and it can harm you without seeming ever to touch you. It is systematic and it is particularistic and it is often both at the same time. It causes dreams to live and dreams to die. (Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters, 2008: 3) Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 10:16:06AM via free access Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 10:16:06AM via free access Contents Series editors’ preface page viii List of figures x Acknowledgements xi Prologue 1 Introduction: deportation fantasies 4 1 The politics of deportation and the Nordic welfare state 25 2 What you get is a prison: detention in Denmark 43 3 Deporting with care: detention in Sweden 67 4 Politics that kill, slowly: the Danish deportation camps 93 5 The idea is to exhaust them: minimum welfare provisions in Sweden 117 Conclusion: state violence and its effects 140 Epilogue: Abolfazl’s death and other afterlives 151 Appendix: on methods 153 References 160 Index 185 Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 10:16:15AM via free access Series editors’ preface Ethnography reaches the parts of politics that other methods cannot reach. It captures the lived experience of politics; the everyday life of political elites and street-level bureaucrats. It identifies what we fail to learn, and what we fail to understand, from other approaches. Specifically: 1. It is a source of data not available elsewhere. 2. It is often the only way to identify key individuals and core processes. 3. It identifies ‘voices’ all too often ignored. 4. By disaggregating organisations, it leads to an understanding of ‘the black box’, or the internal processes of groups and organisations. 5. It recovers the beliefs and practices of actors. 6. It gets below and behind the surface of official accounts by provid- ing texture, depth and nuance, so our stories have richness as well as context. 7. It lets interviewees explain the meaning of their actions, providing an authenticity that can only come from the main characters involved in the story. 8. It allows us to frame (and reframe, and reframe) research questions in a way that recognises our understandings about how things work around here evolve during the fieldwork. 9. It admits of surprises – of moments of epiphany, serendipity and hap- penstance – that can open new research agendas. 10. It helps us to see and analyse the symbolic, performative aspects of political action. Despite this distinct and distinctive contribution, ethnography’s potential is rarely realised in political science and related disciplines. It is considered an endangered species or at best a minority sport. This series seeks to promote the use of ethnography in political science, public administration and public policy. Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 10:16:28AM via free access Series editors’ preface ix The series has two key aims: 1. To establish an outlet for ethnographic research into politics, public administration and public policy. 2. To build an interdisciplinary platform for a readership interested in qualitative research into politics and administration. We expect such work to cut across the traditional scholarly boundaries of political sci- ence, public administration, anthropology, organisation studies, social policy, and development studies. R. A. W. Rhodes, Professor, University of Southampton Nina Holm Vohnsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University Series editors Annika Lindberg - 9781526160881 Downloaded from manchesterhive.com at 01/25/2023 10:16:28AM via free access
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