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Abstract
Young people’s friendships have been central to debates around minority integration in Danish society. Specifically, through schooling, students with diverse racialised-ethnic backgrounds are expected to form bonds and connections as a way to strengthen social cohesion and unity. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with education professionals in Danish schooling contexts (a comprehensive school and extracurricular schooling state institutions), this article deploys the concept of intimate technology of concern to explore how and with what effects concerns over young people’s friendships are implicated in welfare value projects of minority integration. Contributing to the literature on friendship, understood as a regulatory modality of intimacy, the article shows how, racialised figuring of friendship as both a threat and a solution, young people’s social relations are celebrated as achievements of integration and social mixing.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Nordic Journal of Social Research |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages (from-to) | 10-22 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISSN | 1892-2783 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2022 |
Keywords
- Denmark
- education
- friendship
- integration
- intimate technology of concern
- racialisation
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Diversity Work as Mood Work in Education
Staunæs, D. (PI) & Vertelyté, M. (Participant)
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/02/2020 → 30/09/2025
Project: Research
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Policy futures: Researching on education policy, governance and administration at a time of political crisis in Europe
Madsen, M. (Participant), Brøgger, K. (Project manager), Cone, L. (Participant), Krejsler, J. B. (Participant), Cort, P. S. (Participant), Kristensen, J. E. (Participant), Hedegaard, M. L. L. (Participant), Larson, A. (Participant), Jimenez, G. (Participant), Plotnikof, M. (Participant), Coninck-Smith, N. D. (Participant), Laursen, R. (Participant), Moos, L. (Participant), Staunæs, D. (Participant), Nørgaard, C. (Participant), Binderup, T. (Participant), Vertelyté, M. (Participant), Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, S. (Participant), Normand, R. (Participant), Robertson, S. (Participant), Mengel, P. (Participant), Tarby, S. C. M. (Participant), Moscovitz, H. (Participant), Zangrandi, E. (Participant), Harsbo, R. (Participant), Nygaard, P. S. (Participant), Sørensen, A. E. (Participant), Nuriler, H. (Participant) & Gibson, A. G. (Participant)
COST Association Avenue du Boulevard – Bolwerklaan 21 1210 Brussels | Belgium
01/03/2019 → …
Project: Research