This essay is a discourse analysis of the integration politics of the different partiesin the Swedish parliament and the non-parliamentary party ‘the SwedishDemocrats’, as it is presented on their respective web pages. The overall purposeis to problematize and shed a light on how the current discourse(s) aboutintegration are constituted. Also of interest is how these construct our knowledgeand experience of the phenomena. We furthermore want to illustrate the socialconsequences of such discourses on the construction and organization of identitiesand groups, and, as a result, the courses of action that becomes available. Ouressay has a methodological and theoretical foundation that is based upondiscourse theory – an approach with a view of the reality as both sociallyconstructed and as communicated by linguistic organisation. Unsurprisingly then,it is our ontological standpoint that it is language that constructs and gives ourreality a meaning, rather than a naturalistic objective and value-free reflection ofthe world. The analysis identifies some general themes that could be viewed uponas the foundation of the integration-discourse. We find that this discourse isorganized around a mythical idea of the Swedish society, which is identified as abroader discourse about the concept of the nation. The ideational process worksthrough the construction of a separation from other nations, and thus an indirectcreation of a group (Swedes) belonging to the own nation and community. As aresult a division is made between those who belong to the society and those whodo not (immigrants). In order to get access to the Swedish society, in other wordsto integrate and escape alienation, the excluded must get an employment. Thevarious discourses differ on reasons behind the failing integration, a finding thatwe discuss and problematize around in the study. The overall conclusion is thatthe discourses is unable to contribute to integration process and insteadconsolidates the divide between immigrants and Swedes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-25081 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Persdotter, Sigrid, Björlin, Terese |
| Publisher | Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), Malmö högskola/Hälsa och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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