%0 Journal Article
%T Peace, welfare, culture. Muslims as a security problem in Danish integration discourse
%A Ulrik Pram Gad
%J Nordeuropaforum
%D 2011
%I Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin
%X This article analyzes how Muslims are implied to constitute threats in the official Danish discourse of the centre-right government since 2001. It does so to provide a more nuanced picture of Danish debates on integration than the usual presentation of two discourses ¨C culturalism and multiculturalism ¨C pitted in opposition. By analytically focusing on ˇ°security narrativesˇ±, the article details how initial narratives of Muslims as threats to culture, welfare and societal peace merged and morphed to award surpris-ing new roles to the state and multiculturalism. The re-evaluation of cultural difference implied in a recent strategy to counter radicalization, however, does not amount to a de-securitization of Muslims ¨C rather it installs a need for surveillance and control of the Muslim difference.
%K Foreign and Security Policy
%K Denmark
%K Identities
%K Domestic Politics
%K Minorities
%K Nations & Nationalism
%K Political Parties & Social Movements
%K Religion & Church
%U http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2011-1/pram-gad-ulrik-41/PDF/pram-gad.pdf