Climate migration (climate refugees) has been debated in Sweden and globally over the past few decades. This paper is a critical discourse analysis of the presentation of climate migration in Swedish news media, using Fairclough's three-dimensional model as the foundation. The study aims to identify and analyze the different discourses surrounding climate migration that are presented in news media. This critical discourse further intends to analyze how these discourses are constructed in news articles. By reviewing seven articles from various Swedish newspapers, we have identified three discourses within the phenomenon of climate migration. These discourses revolve around portraying climate migration as a problem, a potential solution, and a complex economic injustice. Based on constructive journalism, the discourses are constructed both with a negative and consequence-focused approach but also emphasize solutions that advocate a humanitarian point of view. Furthermore, we have identified that these constructions advocate an impatience regarding the situation directed towards those in position of power.

The scope of this study is to analyse the phenomenon climate migration through the theories Securitization, Externalization of Border and World Systems Analysis. The study seeks answers to how factors and structures have limited the rights of climate refugees in the modern world system by analysing what obstacles and opportunities exist on the issue. The World System Analysis explains the underlying structures of the current world system and how it has generated climate migration as well as states' desire to preserve their sovereignty. The World System Analysis can also provide an explanation how these structures have led to a securitization of migration, which manifests itself through the implementation of several mechanisms such as Externalization of Border to stop the imaginary threat that climate refugees are viewed as. The study was conducted via qualitative text analysis of carefully selected articles and books to bring several relevant perspectives to the study. The study formulates conclusions based on both historical- and contemporary events to bring clarity to the issue on what space climate refugees have in the modern world system.