The purpose of this paper is to analyze and question the government survey 1956:43 Zigenarfrågan based on the theory of internal colonialism. An important question for the study is to elucidate and gain an understanding of the factors that led to Roma inclusion in the compulsory school. This survey of the goverment investigation is necessary because the state management of the Roma had to start the investigation, that led to a number of difficulties for the community. The investigation put also a lot of demands on the roma society. The state wanted at all means to influence and change the group's way of life. Roma situation was now more and more conspicuously set to influence the Swedish society as a whole. State expressed concern about an increase in crime among the group, this led to the investigation begin. The essay will mainly concern the school issue in the investigation of Zigenarfrågan. There will also be a comparison made between investigation Zigenarfrågan and another government study conducted in 1957-1960. This study was designed to investigate the Sami school situation and was named Samernas skolgång 1960:410. The study will show how the state, hoping to assimilate the Roma in Swedish society, colonized roma minority by undermining the group's cultural characteristics in favor of the majority culture. The question I am hoping to answer in this study by analysing the governments survey Zigenarfrågan, is: How does the investigation Zigenarfrågan discribe the situation of Roma in Sweden, focusing on the school question? What problems are produced? What reasons are presented? What solutions are proposed? Is it possible to demonstrate a difference in treatment of roma in the comparison between investigations Zigenarfrågan and Samernas skolgång?

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka den samiska kvinnans roll i samisk kultur under 1600-1700-talen och den samiska kvinnans roll idag. För att kunna uppnå vårt syfte har vi som metod genomfört litteraturstudier av tidigare forskning, litterära texter, artiklar, och elektroniska källor. Resultatet visar på både kontinuitet och förändring. En av kvinnans viktigaste roller i den traditionella kulturen och religionen var som utövare av jojken. Det var vanligt att kvinnan jojkade i allmänhet, men även i vissa rituella sammanhang. Detta kunde till exempel ske när kvinnans jojkande skulle hålla nåjden i liv under dennes resa till gudarnas värld och till dödsriket. Hennes roll har i vår tid blivit större. Än idag jojkar samerna och det är dessutom numer lika van­ligt att kvinnan jojkar som att mannen gör det. Kvinnan kan idag jojka i mer offentliga situationer, till exempel vid scenframträdanden, politiska sammanhang och demonstrationer. Numer kan det också förekomma att en samisk kvinna är renskötare, något som tidigare tillhörde enbart männens ansvarsområden. Den moderna samiska kvinnan använder också trumman och även om vi i vår tid kan se att trumman som religiös symbol förlorat en del av sin traditionella betydelse kan vi ändå dra slutsatsen att kvinnan i och med sitt bruk av trumman stärkt sin roll och sitt inflytande. Det är rimligt att säga att den samiska kvinnan och mannen idag är mer jämlika än tidigare och det kan rimligtvis bero på den jämlikhetsutveckling som skett och ständigt fort­skrider i vårt samhälle.

Introduction. This thesis is set in the field of critical knowledge organization and indigenous knowledge organi- zation. Building on the theory of domain analysis I chose the Saami Library in Sweden as the domain for this thesis. The purpose was to identify the structures of power affecting how the lives and experiences of the Saami people are represented in the library catalogue and in the classification systems used, and to examine the views on knowledge expressed in the classification systems. Theory and method. This thesis builds upon the writings on deconstruction. I seek to deconstruct the cata- logue and the classification system using tools derived from the writings of Jacques Derrida. Analysis. Nine posts from the catalogue, and the classification codes entered there were analysed. Emphasis was put on analysing the DDC classification as this is the primary classification system used. Results. From analysing the classifications and the catalogue posts I found that the representations of the Saami experiences varied depending on which subject class the book belonged to. A majority of the posts analysed were classified as social sciences in DDC whereas the classifications were more varied in the Swedish SAB- system. Conclusion. Two structures have been identified. The first structure places the Saami experiences as some- thing that is other, in relation to which the mainstream is defined. The second structure places the Saami experi- ences as part of a diversity, separate from the unity of the mainstream society. This structure only acknowledges the existence of diversity if this means that the position of the unity is strengthened. Concerning the second purpose of the thesis I find that a western knowledge perspective has got a hegemonic position in the DDC, which means that other knowledge systems such as indigenous knowledge is not seen as such but as something only related to a specific group. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.