Vi är si, de är så - en studie av hur sverigedemokraterna konstruerar svenskheten.
(2012) MRSK30 20112Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- The Swedish democrats crossed the four percent threshold for parliament representation in Sweden for the first time in the election 2010. This controversial party has teared open a lot of emotion in the Swedish debates, mostly because of their anti-immigrant politics. The Swedish democrats politics all weigh heavily upon a clear distinction between the swedes and the non- swedes. The party appears to act in a context colored by orientalism, creating a clear category of ”the others”. They argue the importance for a homogeneous Swedish culture and therefore also argue for the so called capital failure of the multicultural society.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Swedish democrats construct the ”Swedishness” and what this... (More) - The Swedish democrats crossed the four percent threshold for parliament representation in Sweden for the first time in the election 2010. This controversial party has teared open a lot of emotion in the Swedish debates, mostly because of their anti-immigrant politics. The Swedish democrats politics all weigh heavily upon a clear distinction between the swedes and the non- swedes. The party appears to act in a context colored by orientalism, creating a clear category of ”the others”. They argue the importance for a homogeneous Swedish culture and therefore also argue for the so called capital failure of the multicultural society.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Swedish democrats construct the ”Swedishness” and what this mean to the category of ”non-Swedes”. (Less)
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- author
- Trulsson, Jessica LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSK30 20112
- year
- 2012
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Swedes, The others, Orientalism, Sweden, Swedish Democrats, Swedishness, Mänskliga rättigheter, Human rights
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 2277382
- date added to LUP
- 2012-03-06 16:06:36
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:53
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