Norwegian policy texts presume immigrants need tutelage in European citizenship.
Evidence
These texts are remarkably unselfconscious in their assumption that immigrant communities are to be instructed in matters of citizenship, that is, on how to live in European culture. They are structured by a familiar hierarchy of citizenship: on the one hand, original citizens whose values must be respected (and whose values, it goes without saying, are superior) and, on the other, foreigners whose alien values have the potential to contaminate the body politic and who must be purged. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 303
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The contamination-of-the-body-politic language echoes Sara Ahmed’s and Ann Stoler’s work on the racialized body politic and hygiene metaphors.