The subject of my essay concerns the images of refugees that have been taken on Lesvos during the last year. The aim of this essay is to examine the relationship between the photographer, the camera and the island as a scene för photographers, through the images that were taken there. The main scene is the beaches of Lesvos where tragedies and (sometimes) even comedies take place. I am working in a field where photography, aesthetics and social anthropology intersect. As regards to method, I have applied researcher Ruben Anderssson's ”extended field site” to my own field studies concerning Lesvos. The refugee situation that recently found its centre on the Greek islands is built up of networks that stretch far and wide across the globe. Events in one part of the world affect what is happening on Lesvos and vice versa. The media and NGOs are also part of larger networks. Therefore the field site needs to be extended beyond the geographical borders of Lesvos. I did field studies on Lesvos two times during the last year. I interviewed photographers and volunteers and took photographs of my own. Intuition is an integral part of my work and I have also applied it to my field studies. One of my starting points has been Judith Butler’s thoughts on what makes a life grievable. Butler's main hypothesis is that we view certain lives as having less value than others and thereby we will be less likely to grieve the passing of such lives. I examine the images of refugees to see if photography can help us better regard their lives as grievable. Refugees are people whose exposed bodies live precarious lives. Photographers can capture this in images but it is the spectator who has the final say in how images affect him or her. I end the essay by examining the spectator and what happens when we are confronted with disturbing images. Images of refugees in need exhort us to react whether we want to or not. We can turn away, but once images have entered out consciousness, there is no turning back.

This thesis deals with a topic of immigration policy of the European Union of the 21st century. One cannot write about this topic regardless of the migration wave and refugee crisis that has sparked the debate about EU's immigration policy function - and EU as a whole - in general. The aim of this thesis is to give a reader profound view on the topic of immigration policy of the EU in the context of the immigration crisis, to present reasons why is this happening as well as the consequences, and last but not least, to give an solution that could help EU to deal with crisis and its origins. The thesis handles with the attitudes and opinions of EU member states and the EU as a whole, discusses the evolution of EU immigration policy and its current state. In a part it is oriented on asylum policy as a part of immigration policy and the question of supra-nationalization of the EU's immigration policy. The last chapter offers following steps which the EU should take, and which lead to solving the crisis or at least alleviation.

Arbete och en meningsfull sysselsättning är en rättighet för alla. Det bidrar till delaktighet, meningsfullhet och autonomi. För individer med utländsk bakgrund skapar arbete förutsättningar för att integreras i samhället, dock har många individer svårt att komma in i arbetsmarknaden. vi har undersökt varför arbetslösheten är högre hos individer med utländsk bakgrund som dessutom lever med psykiska funktionsnedsättningar, än för de vanliga individerna. Studien har visat att förutom individens utmaningar med diagnosen PTSD, som kan innebära kognitiva och/eller exekutiva nedsättningar, är samhällets syn, insatsformerna och kunskapsläget för de yrkesverksamma bidragande faktorer till den höga arbetslösheten. Den här kvalitativa studien har valt att ta del av yrkesverksammas perspektiv på hur arbetsrehabiliteringen ser ut och upplevs fungera. Vi utförde fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med fem personer som är yrkesverksamma inom det här området och har olika professioner. Samtliga har långa erfarenheter kring PTSD som diagnos, och vilken påverkan den har ur ett systemteoretiskt perspektiv. Bristerna i stödformerna som är tillgängliga i dagsläget är något vi identifierade i den tidigare forskningen och vårt resultat i den här studien visar att stora delar av intervjudeltagarnas upplevelser stämmer överens med tidigare forskningsresultat. Det visar på att forskningen inom PTSD i Sverige är bristfällig och ett syfte med den här studien är att belysa detta. Studien belyser även utmaningarna som en nyanländ individ med PTSD får möta jämfört med en som har svensk bakgrund. / Work and meaningful employment is a right for everyone. It contributes to participation, meaningfulness and autonomy. For individuals with a foreign background, work creates the conditions for integration into society, however, many individuals find it difficult to enter the labor market. we have investigated why unemployment is higher among individuals with a foreign background who also live with mental disabilities, than for the ordinary individuals. The study has shown that in addition to the individual's challenges with the diagnosis of PTSD, which can involve cognitive and / or executive impairments, society's views, forms of intervention and state of knowledge for the occupational factors contribute to the high unemployment. This qualitative study has chosen to take part in the professionals' perspective on how work rehabilitation looks and feels to work. We conducted five semi-structured interviews with five people who are professionals in this field and have different professions. All have long experiences with PTSD as a diagnosis, and what impact it has from a systems theory perspective. The shortcomings in the forms of support that are currently available are something we identified in the previous research and our results in this study show that large parts of the interview participants' experiences are consistent with previous research results. This shows that research in PTSD in Sweden is deficient, and one purpose of this study is to shed light on this. The study also highlights the challenges that a newly arrived individual with PTSD may face compared to someone with a Swedish background.

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