Den bortglömda invandringen - En kritisk diskursanalys om hur dagspressen skilrade de italienska arbetskraftsinvandrarna
(2021) STVK02 20211Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to enlighten a forgotten subject, the Italian labour immigrants that went to Sweden after the second world war ended. Italy was trying to heal from the war and Swedish industries were thriving and desperate for manpower. This paper focus on the immigrants that went to a Swedish town well known for their industry, Västerås. The theoretical and methodological framework for this paper was Faircloughs critical discourse analysis, which argues that language acts as a tool of power. The Italians were treated as strangers after the end of world war ll, but is now well integrated in Swedish society. The paper investigates the discourse of the labour imimigrants and how they where portrayed by the Swedish newspapers.... (More)
- The purpose of this study was to enlighten a forgotten subject, the Italian labour immigrants that went to Sweden after the second world war ended. Italy was trying to heal from the war and Swedish industries were thriving and desperate for manpower. This paper focus on the immigrants that went to a Swedish town well known for their industry, Västerås. The theoretical and methodological framework for this paper was Faircloughs critical discourse analysis, which argues that language acts as a tool of power. The Italians were treated as strangers after the end of world war ll, but is now well integrated in Swedish society. The paper investigates the discourse of the labour imimigrants and how they where portrayed by the Swedish newspapers. The results discovered that there was a non equal power balance between the Italians and Swedes and the italians were portayed as foreign and was always described as ”the others”. (Less)
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- author
- Lundström, Ebba LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Labor immigration, Italians, Västerås, Asea, critical discourse analysis
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9045165
- date added to LUP
- 2021-07-06 12:00:49
- date last changed
- 2021-07-06 12:00:49
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