'The Tipping Point'--Interrogating Racialized Nationalist Affects in Danish High Schools

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Title: 'The Tipping Point'--Interrogating Racialized Nationalist Affects in Danish High Schools
Language: English
Authors: Iram Khawaja (ORCID 0000-0002-5231-8729), Reva Jaffe-Walter (ORCID 0000-0003-3581-6512)
Source: Race, Ethnicity and Education. 2025 28(6):1002-1021.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
Secondary Education
Descriptors: Fear, Anxiety, Educational Policy, Minority Group Students, High School Students, Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Immigration, High School Teachers, Inclusion, Nationalism, Racial Segregation, Immigrants
Geographic Terms: Denmark
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2024.2427598
ISSN: 1361-3324
1470-109X
Abstract: In this article, we explore the fear and anxiety reflected within and generated by educational dispersal policies related to racialized minoritized students in Danish high schools. The article examines the production of high schools as sites of integration within policy and discourse and how racialized minoritized students are represented as 'perpetually arriving' and challenging the social cohesiveness of the Danish high school. Our conception of racialized nationalist affect captures how ideas of education and integration are bound up with racialized notions reinforcing fear, anxiety, and concern in response to a perceived threat of diversity that needs to be managed through dispersal policies. Drawing on existing policy documents related to student dispersal plans and interviews with high-school leaders and teachers, we critically analyze how the high school, the nation, and racialized minoritized students are affectively and discursively produced, perceived, and disciplined.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2026
Accession Number: EJ1501860
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:In this article, we explore the fear and anxiety reflected within and generated by educational dispersal policies related to racialized minoritized students in Danish high schools. The article examines the production of high schools as sites of integration within policy and discourse and how racialized minoritized students are represented as 'perpetually arriving' and challenging the social cohesiveness of the Danish high school. Our conception of racialized nationalist affect captures how ideas of education and integration are bound up with racialized notions reinforcing fear, anxiety, and concern in response to a perceived threat of diversity that needs to be managed through dispersal policies. Drawing on existing policy documents related to student dispersal plans and interviews with high-school leaders and teachers, we critically analyze how the high school, the nation, and racialized minoritized students are affectively and discursively produced, perceived, and disciplined.
ISSN:1361-3324
1470-109X
DOI:10.1080/13613324.2024.2427598