This essay has studied how migration is presented in textbooks in social science at high school. The purpose of this work has been to investigate how migration as a theme is presented in the textbooks. The essay will focus on identifying and analyzing different discourses about migration. The result will be analyzed with Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. Four textbooks have been studied and they are released between the years 2007-2020. The method that has been used to process the material in the textbooks has been a qualitative text analysis. The result shows that there are several discourses in the textbooks. The most prominent discourse is an ethnocentric discourse that highlights the western world and its decisive role in migration globally. There is also a diversity discourse which claims that migration enriches us both economically and culturally. Furthermore, there is also a school discourse that builds on the writings found in the curriculum, governing documents, and values for the school. The discourses are unchanged despite the refugee crisis that took place in 2015. Discourses that challenged were that there were big problems with large-scale immigration, but theses discourses never came up in the discourse order.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-121225 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Viktorsson, Oliver |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| 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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