The aim of this study was to seek an understanding of how media presents integration within the market of labour, with focus on problems and its causes, after the refugee crisis in 2015. Our approach has been the analyzing of 24 discussion articles from three different newspapers which are; Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter.   Our study is a qualitative document study and we have used Fairclough’s three-dimensional model to analyze our empirical material. Our focus has been to analyze the language in the articles, the context of the texts and how that can influence or change the social practice. To analyze the articles, we have used various color codes, which have made it easier to split the articles in different themes. Furthermore, we have applied Søren Barlebo Wenneberg’s version of the social construction theory. He chose to divide the theory in four different pieces, whereas we have chosen the one we thought would contribute most with a deeper understanding to our study. Finally, we have used relevant literature as well as the notion of stigma by Erving Goffman.   We found that, among other things, politicians are pushing for many reforms that is lacking in society, such as lower wages regarding the employment of refugees or more combinations of jobs and education. Their approach has been to convey this to the public through the media. The results also showed that throughout the articles seldom were refugees who spoke. Something that dominated the media was the response of different politicians, experts or professionals about the failed integration. Their response was almost always about more or less education, as well as low-paid jobs and which one that was the best option, depending on the opinion of the author.

Hösten 2015 var medierapporteringen om ”flyktingkrisen” intensiv; den stora mängd flyktingar som kom till Sverige under sommaren och hösten lyftes också fram som det som framförallt hade präglat året i medias nyårssummeringar. I denna uppsats undersöks hur ordet flykting använts i totalt 293 artiklar i de två rikstäckande svenska tidningarna Dagens Nyheter och Aftonbladet under tre tjugodagars- perioder i augusti till november 2015, med syftet att se hur innebörden i begreppet flykting skrivs fram. Det som undersöks är dels hur ordet flykting används grammatiskt och syntaktiskt, dels i vilka sammanhang som det används. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att flykting nästan alltid förekommer i plural eller i abstrakta sammansättningar. Sammantaget är det en bild av ett anonymt kollektiv som ges. Flykting förekommer sällan med andra attribut än mängdangivelser och när flykting stått som subjekt, vilket varit i cirka 37 procent av de undersökta förekomsterna, har det i flertalet fall varit med rörelseverb, så som kommer och anländer. Vad flyktingarna har för tankar och känslor nämns inte. I den andra delen av undersökningen har jag studerat vad de artiklar där ordet flykting förekommer handlar om. Analysen visar att det främst är politik och allmänhetens reaktioner på flyktingkrisen – ofta negativa reaktioner, men under en del av den undersökta tiden även hjälpsamma – som tidningarna har rapporterat om. De slutsatser man kan dra av resultaten är att bilden av flyktingar som getts i media har varit ensidig. Rapporteringen har inte varit uppenbart negativ, men ändå avhumaniserande.

This thesis examines how four of the national newspapers in Sweden portray the events in late 2015 referred to as the refugee crisis. According to previous research, theimmigration received a lot of media attention and has often been portrayed negatively. Due to the size of the wave and the time it lasted, it is necessary to narrow the selection of published news articles about the topic to a specific time frame and event, which is the introduction of temporary border controls in Sweden, that became a turning point during the wave. The selection makes this thesis unique among the broad previous research. The framing theory is a substantial part of this study, that uses both qualitative framing analysis and quantitative content analysis in order to examine whether the events are portrayed by newspapers through a crisis frame or a human interest frame. The mentioned frames mean that the wave is either portrayed as a negative impact on the country or that the media focuses on the humanitarian situation. The study will alsotake into consideration whether the Swedish newspapers frame politics as strategy andgame. As well as who is quoted in the articles and whether there are differences between news coverage before and after the introduction of temporary border controls. The examined newspapers most often portray the refugee wave as a burden to the society. Framing of the events is rarely done through the human interest frame while the crisis frame is applied in most articles. In addition, most of the quotes come from politicians and political commentators and it is only occasionally that quotes from the refugees occur. The applied framing can be then seen as one of politics as strategy andgame, where there are political winners and losers. The analysis showed no significant difference between news coverage before and after the introduction of border controls.

The civil society is considered an important component of a democratic system and is supported by political advocates. During the 2015 migrant crisis the voluntary sector, as part of the civil society, played an important role shouldering a lot of responsibility for the arrival of refugees. This led to criticisms aimed towards the public sector and it’s absence in regard to the same situation. The purpose of this essay is to investigate and explain the political paradox created in connection with the migrant crisis of 2015. Using the ”perspective of responsibility” as a starting-point this essay will look at the public sector’s- and respectively the civil society’s actions during the crisis as a benchmark. This essay will use the method known as case study, through a qualitative text analysis as a base. The different sectors and their respective relationships to the perspective of responsibility will be discussed through three separate ways in which Robert Putnams theory on social capital & citizenship, and Henrik Berggren & Lars Trägårdhs theory on the Swedish state individualism will be discussed. Using these two separate theories together with the perspective of responsibility as a foundation, the study will illustrate the problematic aspects of civil society partly bearing the responsibilities of the public sector’s areas of responsibility during the fall of 2015. This essay found that some of the negative criticism pointed at the public sector was misguided during the fall 2015.