ABSTRACT

This chapter illustrates how two symbolic resources, human development as technically governable and the human being as economics-oriented, are constituted by events and processes in the data which like oscillating meanings are mobilised, and form the mesh constituting these two symbolic resources. Implicit in the assumption of cultural modernisation as a movement upwards on the scale of development is the idea that modernisation can be developed if the right policies and practices are applied. Believing in the power of policies often associates with cross-professional cooperation and organisation as if more professional and technical capacity were needed to manage immigrants and refugees technically, as if it were understood as a huge task demanding all professional resources possible. Apart from relating to cross-professionalisation, the symbolic resource relates to health care and how access to health care is related to support from the general social services of the municipality.