ABSTRACT
This part conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters. The part explores the rights entangled in welfare work, leading to a description of the symbolic resource of social rights to welfare. It examines two symbolic resources concerning culture support and strengthens the idea of a linear path of progress and development for both immigrant and refugee individuals and societies. The part focuses on how race comes forth as an effect of the symbolic structures of welfare work, as an internal and crossing dynamic of welfare work. Race appears on the backcloth of the all-encompassing integrationism, perfectionism and progressivism embedded in modern welfare work. The concept of racialisation is developed exactly to accentuate the processes and practices through which ideas about race are created and sustained. Racialisation is a specification and intensification of the process of othering, together with a focus on othering’s implications for racialised subjects.
