Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Bonn.

Univ., Diss.--Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2005.

Nürnberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr.--Erlangen, 2006.

The paper aims to examine the relationship between the media's portrayal of the refugee situation in Sweden to investigate whether this could be a contributing factor to a widespread threat society, characterized by fear. Primary theories used is Simmel’s Stranger, Said’s Orientalism, Nohrstedt’s Threat society, framing theory and the media logic in news. Four morning newspapers, with geographic coverage in Sweden, have been used for the quantitative methods to collect empirical data. During the past year, we have analyzed a total of four weeks evenly distributed over the year, starting in May 2015 and end in February 2016. A total of 424 articles are coded on the basis of 21 variables. The result shows that the refugee's descent rarely appears in the articles. The geographical space also reveals that exile nationality rarely occur if the refugee is in Sweden. Furthermore, the result indicates a framing of the refugee as a burden/threat, in more cases than as victim/necessitous. When the refugee is portrayed as a burden the temporal charge is many times urgent. Many article types allows the writer to express their own opinion, as with the rhetorical tools can affect the receiver. Articles says, both implicitly and explicitly, that the Government of Sweden and all municipalities in the country are responsible regarding to the refugee issue. The topics that are high on the news agenda is the reception of refugees and asylum accommodation. These results are in line with the theory of a threat society as the refugee becomes anonymous, described as a stranger and perceived as a burden on society.

Syftet med denna studie är att belysa enskilda flyktingars upplevelser av flykt från Syrien till Sverige. Det studien intresserat sig för är det stöd respektive hinder som informanterna upplevt under sin resa genom Europa och hur EU:s migrationspolitik avspeglas i flyktingens berättelse. För att kunna belysa flyktingars upplevelser av flykt intervjuades fem informanter som vid intervjutillfället bodde på ett asylboende. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats då intresset ligger i enskilda individers upplevelser av resan genom Europa. Den valda teorin och metoden är narrativ för att kunna göra en tolkning av intervjudeltagarnas berättelser om att vara flykting. Analysen byggs upp med utdrag ur deltagarnas livsberättelser och kopplas till den tidigare forskningen och de teorier som presenterats. Teorier som ligger till grund för denna diskussion är Zygmunt Baumans, vagabonder och turister och Peter Kivisto och Thomas Faists tolkning av Everett Lees teori om migration, push-pull modellen. Studien har en kritisk ansats och diskuterar flyktingarnas resa genom Europa i anknytning till EU:s migrationspolitik. Studien visar att EU:s alltmer restriktiva migrationspolitik leder till att flyktingar tvingas ta farliga vägar och använda sig av irreguljära tillvägagångssätt i sitt sökande efter säkerhet och trygghet.

After about 40 years of dictatorship of the Assad family the people of Syria were fed up and at the time of the Arab Spring 2011 a revolution in Syria started, which later on turned into a civil war which has been going on for seven years. This has led to the civilian population suffering from both the regime and the oppositional side. The UN has repeatedly submitted resolutions but none have gone through when Russia and China have used their veto rights. They point out that other countries should not get involved with Syria's internal affairs without the consent of Syria. The question that arises is why Russia prevents the UN from actin in Syria despite the humanitarian disaster that occurs in the country. By analyzing Syria based on the realism theory I will be able to map out the underlying reasons for why the UN are being prevented from acting. The method I will use is intentional analysis to reveal the hidden intentions and motives Russia has in Syria. The results of this study are that the action by the Russian side clearly shows that Russia has strategic motives in Syria to preserve its interests and to strengthen its structural position in the international politics. Russia's economic and geopolitical interests in Syria mean that they act according to their interests, thus preventing the UN from acting, as a possible regime change would represent an economical and geopolitical backlash for Russia. This means that realism explains the case best because it stresses that states act according to their own interests and that international organizations are meaningless.

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Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Linguistique et Sémiologie de l'arabe : Lyon 2 : 2003. / Textes en arabe et en français. Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.

Teilw. zugl.: Diss.

Zugl.: Tübingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2008. / Zsfassung in engl. Sprache.