Ras är en konstruktion- rasifiering en process En jämförande diskursanalys i hur den nationella identiteten konstrueras mellan `svenska invandrare` och `norska invandrare` bosatta i Oslo
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to seek understanding to how a national identity is constructed. Five women and five men at the age of 21-37 years old have been interviewed during November 2005 and January 2006. All of them lived Oslo at the time. The informants have been divided into two groups, `Swedish immigrants` and `Norwegian immigrants`, none of the people interviewed is ethnic `Swedish` or `Norwegian`. The empirical material has been analysed with the help of Billig´s theory about banal nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe´s discourse analysis. By doing a comparative discourse analysis between the two groups one conclusion is that even though the informants portrayed themselves as `Swedish` or `Norwegian` this position caused a conflict... (More)
- The aim of this thesis is to seek understanding to how a national identity is constructed. Five women and five men at the age of 21-37 years old have been interviewed during November 2005 and January 2006. All of them lived Oslo at the time. The informants have been divided into two groups, `Swedish immigrants` and `Norwegian immigrants`, none of the people interviewed is ethnic `Swedish` or `Norwegian`. The empirical material has been analysed with the help of Billig´s theory about banal nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe´s discourse analysis. By doing a comparative discourse analysis between the two groups one conclusion is that even though the informants portrayed themselves as `Swedish` or `Norwegian` this position caused a conflict within the Norwegian society's images of them as `immigrants`. The thesis illustrates how the image of what it is to be considered as `Swedish` and `Norwegian` implies directly connection with `whiteness`. The construction of the Swedish and Norwegian nationality and the `non Swedish/ Norwegian` are not only oppositional but does also contains a hierarchy in which the `immigrant` and the `immigrant women` is portrayed in more negative terms. (Less)
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- author
- Palacios Tardio, Yordana
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- discourse, identity, race, antagonism, gender, Social sciences, Samhällsvetenskaper, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1329771
- date added to LUP
- 2006-04-19 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2006-04-19 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The aim of this thesis is to seek understanding to how a national identity is constructed. Five women and five men at the age of 21-37 years old have been interviewed during November 2005 and January 2006. All of them lived Oslo at the time. The informants have been divided into two groups, `Swedish immigrants` and `Norwegian immigrants`, none of the people interviewed is ethnic `Swedish` or `Norwegian`. The empirical material has been analysed with the help of Billig´s theory about banal nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe´s discourse analysis. By doing a comparative discourse analysis between the two groups one conclusion is that even though the informants portrayed themselves as `Swedish` or `Norwegian` this position caused a conflict within the Norwegian society's images of them as `immigrants`. The thesis illustrates how the image of what it is to be considered as `Swedish` and `Norwegian` implies directly connection with `whiteness`. The construction of the Swedish and Norwegian nationality and the `non Swedish/ Norwegian` are not only oppositional but does also contains a hierarchy in which the `immigrant` and the `immigrant women` is portrayed in more negative terms.}},
author = {{Palacios Tardio, Yordana}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ras är en konstruktion- rasifiering en process En jämförande diskursanalys i hur den nationella identiteten konstrueras mellan `svenska invandrare` och `norska invandrare` bosatta i Oslo}},
year = {{2006}},
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