In person icon Discourses on Vulnerable or Marginalised Groups: Contributions from Critical Policy Studies

Abstract

Policies touching upon issues of gender or migration and/or often result in protracted conflicts or complex discussions. Whereas these issues have been rather marginalized by the mainstream approaches of policy studies critical policy studies have set up a path to analyze discourses that support those policies as well as those that create oppositions to them. However, very often, related policy discussions reveal the ambiguity of opening the debate on vulnerable groups because such debates might generate discourses that become even more vulnerable for those groups and strengthen their marginalization. This panel brings together papers from various fields and aims at critically this ambiguity.

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