This study examines the political-parliamentary discourse surrounding the 2016 Swedish temporary immigration policy with a focus on political construction of asylum seekers. Both the propositional parliamentary paper and debate were put to analysis using Critical Discourse Analysis in order to find out themes ad constructions that manifests political discourse of asylum seekers. It is argued the political-parliamentary discourse surrounding the 2016 temporary immigration policy within the propositional parliamentary paper and debate served to negatively affect the image of asylum seekers via their construction as something negative through the use of words associated with ‘them’: overload and strain on the asylum and social system, threat to integration system, threat to national security, economic burden, queue jumpers, liars, criminals, and morally deviant. This is deemed to contribute to the ‘Othering’ as projection of characteristics is created through marking asylum seekers in a different language of the deviance negative other. This can result to stereotypes, exclusion and marginalisation of asylum seekers, thus diminishing their right to protection.
Table of contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Rationale for the study
1.2 Relevance to IMER-Intemational Migration and Ethnic Relations
1.3 Research problem
1.4 Aim and Research Question
1.5 Materials and data collection:
1.6 Definitions
1.7 Previous Research
1.7.1 Immigration policy history in Sweden
1.7.2 Political discourse and construction of asylum seekers
1.8 Delimitation
1.9 Disposition
2. Conceptual and theoretical framework
2.1 The “Othering”
2.2 The “Stranger” and moral panic
2.3 Elements of‘othering’
3. Methodology
3.1 Critical Discourse Analysis method
3.2 Ethics, Validity, and Reliability
4. Findings and Analysis
4.1 Construction of asylum seekers in the temporary policy propositional paper and parliamentary debate
4.1.1 An Overload and Strain on the asylum and social system
4.1.2 Threat to Integration system
4.1.3 Threat to National Security
4.1.4 Economic burden
4.1.5 Queue-jumpers
4.1.6 Liars
4.1.7 Criminals
4.1.8 Morally deviant
4.1.9 Humans in need of humanitarian aid
4.1.10 Tool for integration
4.2 Contribution of the construction of asylum seekers in the 2016 Swedish temporary immigration propositional paper and parliamentary debate on the theory and concept of ‘othering'
5. Discussions and Conclusion
5.1 Further Research
Bibliography
Appendix
- Quote paper
- Leticia Tusemererwa (Author), 2017, The Talk About Asylum Seekers in the Swedish Parliament, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/450113
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