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Symbolic despotism as hypocrisy, desire and violence: The Ironies  of Humanitarianism in Spain’s Asylum System

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In an era when humanitarian credentials often serve as a moral badge, the Spanish asylum
system reveals a paradox: those tasked by providing care can become unwitting agents of
subtler form of tyranny. Beneath the veneer of altruism, the front-line social workers everyday
interactions with asylum seekers -often operating within overstretched bureaucraciesexemplify what we conceptualize as symbolic despotism, where the desire for control is
entrenched in the rhetoric of virtue.

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Working paper from the MORE Project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme (Grant agreement ID: 101094107)

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Documents de treball / Informes (Antropologia Social)

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Symbolic despotism as hypocrisy, desire and violence: The Ironies  of Humanitarianism in Spain’s Asylum System