White Danish Love as Affective Intervention: &lt;i&gt;Studying Media
                        Representations of Family Reunification Involving Children&lt;/i&gt;

Nielsen, Asta Smedegaard; Myong, Lene

doi:10.2478/njmr-2019-0038

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“…Similar orientations towards white Danishness as constitutive for child innocence are evident in other kinds of media representation of racialized children as belonging in Denmark, e.g. the cases of the Thai national Im (Smedegaard Nielsen, 2020) and the Chinese national Yiming (Smedegaard Nielsen & Myong, 2019). Both children were threatened with deportation from Denmark, where they lived with their mothers, both of whom had married white Danish men.…”

Section: Children Are Children and 'Model Minorities'mentioning

confidence: 61%

“…This part of the reporting reveals interdiscursivity with other kinds of media stories about racialized children in Danish schools, namely cases concerning migrant children threatened with deportation. I have previously studied these cases, partly in collaboration with Lene Myong (Smedegaard Nielsen, 2020;Smedegaard Nielsen & Myong, 2019), and found that the children's familial ties to white Danes played a significant role for the public concern for their case. I will include insights from these studies in order to add perspectives that can provide a more complete picture of how Danish media's representation of racialized children in Danish schools plays into to the racialization of society.…”

Section: Methods and Presentation Of Empirical Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Saving racialized children through good schooling: media discourses on racialized children’s schooling as a site for upholding danish whiteness

Nielsen

2021

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy

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This article uses Danish media discourses on racialized children's schooling as a lens through which to analyse how issues of kinship and family play into nation-building processes through representations of 'the child'. The article addresses the question of the distribution of racialized children, mostly termed 'bilingual pupils', at Danish schools, which is a recurrent theme in the public debate. The media representation of this issue is mostly framed around an ideal of spreading the 'bilingual pupils' among different schools to ensure proper mixing with white Danish pupils, which is framed as securing both the educational development of the children and the prosperity of the Danish nation. Through the ideal of mixing, the nation is constituted as able to include the racialized child as an act of saving it from its heritage of racialized and classed disadvantage. A comparison with other kinds of media reporting on racialized children in Danish schooling reveals the constellation of a racialized hierarchy that works to uphold Danish whiteness and non-racism through the ideal of proper mixing. Migrant subjects who have mixed through kinship with Danish whiteness and have actively abandoned their racialized familial background seem more easily constituted as belonging in Denmark.

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Section: Children Are Children and 'Model Minorities'mentioning

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Saving racialized children through good schooling: media discourses on racialized children’s schooling as a site for upholding danish whiteness

Nielsen

2021

Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy

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“…While this is a symptomatic example of Scandinavian silencing of racial injustice, it also shows how some children are perceived as more ‘desirable’, ‘welcomed’ and more in need of protection than their racially minoritized peers. Similarly, studies have suggested how ideas of belonging to the child or student category operate through intersecting processes of gender (Gilliam, 2018; Kofoed, 2008; Lagermann, 2014; Staunæs, 2004), religion (Khawaja, 2010; Buchardt, 2014) and race (Smedegaard Nielsen, 2021; Smedegaard Nielsen & Myong, 2019; Vertelytė, 2019) that work against minoritized children.…”

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Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence

Yang

2023

Children & Society

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This article examines the concept of ‘child‐friendliness’ through different notions of innocence in a Danish context. It looks at how such notions are upheld, negotiated and inform ideas of race, making race seem a concern primarily for adults. The analysis is based on empirical material conducted with children (age 11–12) and their discussions about a storyline for a video game. Here race becomes central when the children call one of the locations in their game ‘n‐word Island’. They later reconsider the name because, according to the children, the name is racist and thus not ‘child‐friendly’.

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Deterring transnational migration: public information campaigns, affective governmentality, and the family

Williams

Coddington

2022

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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White Danish Love as Affective Intervention: <i>Studying Media Representations of Family Reunification Involving Children</i>

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Saving racialized children through good schooling: media discourses on racialized children’s schooling as a site for upholding danish whiteness

Saving racialized children through good schooling: media discourses on racialized children’s schooling as a site for upholding danish whiteness

Racism suitable for children? Intersections between child innocence and white innocence

Deterring transnational migration: public information campaigns, affective governmentality, and the family

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