The thesis critically assesses parliamentary and political discussions preceding the adoption of a Danish law from 2018, which has the purpose of increasing the use of deportation of what is referred to as ‘criminal foreigners’. The purpose is to investigate how persons brought up in Denmark can be viewed as foreigners rather than Danes and hence why they are deportable when convicted.This is done by identifying antagonisms and common assumptions in the arguments for and against it. Thus, the method used is discourse analysis building on the theoretical framework of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analysis. The theory of the community of value is used as lens to understand the identified discourses through. It is found that claims that problematise deportation on the grounds that the persons are Danes is not successful in the order of discourse, and that the discursive struggle primarily is over the role of human rights.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-21762 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Harder, Sofie Juul |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| 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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