Travail de cours "Analyse comparée de politiques publiques", 1999. / Travail de cours "Analyse comparée de politiques publiques" Bibliographie: p.55-61.

Diss. Harvard Univ.

University, Diss., 2004--München.

Zugl.: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 2009

Travail de mémoire. / En même temps: Trav. de mém. IDHEAP. Bibliographie: p. 123-134.

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This paper studies the Swedish Alien’s Act regulations regarding individuals in need of international protection. The purpose of the essay is to examine the differences between the three grounds of protection that are found in the Swedish Alien’s Act. Central questions have been whether the origins of protection statuses granted in this act are national or international, as the UN convention relating to the status of refugees and also the progress of the European Union’s Common European Asylum System both are affecting the Swedish legislation. The international relation’s theoretical perspectives of realism and liberalism have been applied in the analysis of what ideas and international political backgrounds have been found. The resulting conclusion is that only one category out of three is purely a result of the Swedish legislation. The common European asylum system affects and controls a large part of what is called Swedish asylum policy. It is concluded that liberal political-philosophical ideas of human rights are dominating the ideological background, and that liberal ideas of freedom from economical hindrances and also institutionalism has formed the system we have today. An interesting paradox is seen in the European Union’s growing concern of security and external borders, which is more typical in a realist, state-centered perspective.

”Problemet” immigration i ”möjligheternas” EU är en uppsats som ämnar analysera EU:s immigrations- och asylpolitik. Materialet består av olika policydokument, utgivna av EU-kommissionen. Det är en diskursanalys med syfte att söka urskilja bakomliggande mönster för den politik som formuleras i texterna. Diskursanalysen vilken är en breddad typ av textanalys utgör uppsatsens metod. Utöver det diskursanalytiska perspektivet så tolkas materialet utifrån två teoretiska perspektiv. Dessa två består av ett universalistiskt respektive ett postkolonialistiskt. Det universalistiska perspektivet används för att ta reda på hur EU tar hänsyn till mänskliga rättigheter i sina immigrations- och asylpolicies. Den postkolonialistiska teorin brukas i syfte att pröva om politiken kan sägas ge uttryck för en så kallad colonialism of compassion. Resultatet visar att en sådan ”ny” typ av kolonialism är applicerbar på EU:s immigrations- och asylpolicies. Respekt för mänskliga rättigheter är ett återkommande tema i de analyserade dokumenten men slutsatsen blir dock att de politiska idéerna bygger mer på ett partikularistiskt synsätt än ett universalistiskt. En övrig viktig slutsats är att politiken verkar styras av en syn på immigration som ett problem som för med sig mer ont än gott. Benämningen ”olaglig invandring” visar hur EU avser förstärka problemdimensionen av immigration vilket gör att politiken formas därefter. / This thesis aims to investigate the EU immigration and asylum policies by reviewing official policy documents. The method used is a discourse analysis which seeks to uncover different underlying patterns or discourses that might effect the policies. Apart from the discourse analytic perspective there are two theoretical views applicated. These two perspectives are a universalistic and a postcolonialistic. The universalistic perspective is used in order to examine how the EU treats human rights in their immigration and asylum policies. The postcolonialistic perspective is used with the purpose to see if there might be an expression for a kind of colonialism of compassion. According to the result this “new” kind of colonialism can be said to make part of the policies. As for the universalistic perspective it is shown that there is an explicit ambition to respect human rights but the political ideas seem to be more particularistic then universalistic. Another conclusion is that the EU seems to view immigration through a very negative perspective which this thesis claims has an effect on how the policies are written. When the EU insist to speak about “illegal immigration” instead of just “irregular immigration” this shows how they aim to strenghten the dimension of immigration and asylum as a problem.

Univ., Diss.--Augsburg, 2004.

<p>During the 20 century millions of people have escaped from war, threat against their human rights, economic injustices and pursuit. The great numbers of fleeing people have lead to difficulties in asylum investigation in the countries, which receive the asylum seekers. Sweden is a country, which has ratified the Genéveconvention 1954, and receives the asylum seekers. The great numbers of asylum seekers have caused among other things long time of waiting for the asylum seekers, sometimes up to 2-3 years. This implies some consequences both for the asylum seeker and for the community. The purpose of the study is to explore how the asylum errands are treated and to elucidate possible problems with implementing the asylum politics in Sweden. This study addresses three questions. Through these questions I want to explain the reasons for the long waiting time for asylum seekers and consequences of these both for the community and the asylum seekers.</p>