ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the book's postcolonial welfare analytics is outlined. Its foundation is sociologist Georg Simmel's concept of sociation processes conditioned by super- and subordination processes in which welfare work's capacity to make and remake society plays a crucial role when addressing the refugee and shaping social positions. This theoretical foundation is augmented with understandings of the welfare worker as an investing agent. Especially anthropologist Tess Lea's concept of perpetual remedial circularity and compulsory intervention define how perfectionism and passion engines welfare work's social relations. As a condition shaped by a colonial experience, postcoloniality is added to expose how postcolonial sociation processes with its profound racialisation processes play out in Danish welfare work with refugees. The chapter argues that postcolonial sociation has companions such as nationalism, modernity, capitalism and liberalism. Finally, the postcolonial welfare analytics is contextualised in postcolonial Denmark and Danish welfare workers’ complicity in reproducing postcolonial and racial structures is conceptualised.
