Migration and Welfare: Differential Grievabilities in the Swedish Right-Wing Continuum
Hägerbäck, Felicia and Norocel, Ov Cristian LU
(2024)
In Nordic Journal of Migration Research
14(2).
p.1-17
- Abstract
- In this study, we examine the way access to welfare provision for migrants is articulated discursively among three right-of-center parties in Sweden. For this, we suggest two theoretical advances. First, deploying the concept of the right-wing continuum, we highlight the gradual and reciprocal alignment between mainstream right-of-center and radical-right populist parties. Second, by resorting to the concept of grievability, we analyze the implications for migrants of such an ideological alignment. We argue that this specific alignment along the right-wing continuum is best understood by means of a series of discursive (re)articulations, whereby migrants have been progressively excluded, devalued, and construed as ungrievable, to the point... (More)
- In this study, we examine the way access to welfare provision for migrants is articulated discursively among three right-of-center parties in Sweden. For this, we suggest two theoretical advances. First, deploying the concept of the right-wing continuum, we highlight the gradual and reciprocal alignment between mainstream right-of-center and radical-right populist parties. Second, by resorting to the concept of grievability, we analyze the implications for migrants of such an ideological alignment. We argue that this specific alignment along the right-wing continuum is best understood by means of a series of discursive (re)articulations, whereby migrants have been progressively excluded, devalued, and construed as ungrievable, to the point where the different actors on the right-wing continuum no longer find collaboration among themselves unthinkable. Employing a methodological approach embedded in Political Discourse Theory, we evidence how the radical-right populist Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) has articulated welfare provision in a restrictive manner, which consequently excluded migrants. Concomitantly, the mainstream right-of-center parties, namely the liberal-conservative Moderate Party (Moderaterna, M), and the social-conservative Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna, KD), have gradually radicalized their positions and aligned with those of the SD. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/39359702-edcf-40e0-b8ca-6404b39a4e1f
- author
- Hägerbäck, Felicia
and Norocel, Ov Cristian
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- welfare state, migration policy, Sweden, grievability, anti-immigration, ideological alignment
- in
- Nordic Journal of Migration Research
- volume
- 14
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- De Gruyter Open
- ISSN
- 1799-649X
- DOI
- 10.33134/njmr.678
- project
- An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 39359702-edcf-40e0-b8ca-6404b39a4e1f
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-01 15:47:55
- date last changed
- 2024-02-02 14:44:27
@article{39359702-edcf-40e0-b8ca-6404b39a4e1f,
abstract = {{In this study, we examine the way access to welfare provision for migrants is articulated discursively among three right-of-center parties in Sweden. For this, we suggest two theoretical advances. First, deploying the concept of the right-wing continuum, we highlight the gradual and reciprocal alignment between mainstream right-of-center and radical-right populist parties. Second, by resorting to the concept of grievability, we analyze the implications for migrants of such an ideological alignment. We argue that this specific alignment along the right-wing continuum is best understood by means of a series of discursive (re)articulations, whereby migrants have been progressively excluded, devalued, and construed as ungrievable, to the point where the different actors on the right-wing continuum no longer find collaboration among themselves unthinkable. Employing a methodological approach embedded in Political Discourse Theory, we evidence how the radical-right populist Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) has articulated welfare provision in a restrictive manner, which consequently excluded migrants. Concomitantly, the mainstream right-of-center parties, namely the liberal-conservative Moderate Party (Moderaterna, M), and the social-conservative Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna, KD), have gradually radicalized their positions and aligned with those of the SD.}},
author = {{Hägerbäck, Felicia and Norocel, Ov Cristian}},
issn = {{1799-649X}},
keywords = {{welfare state; migration policy; Sweden; grievability; anti-immigration; ideological alignment}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
pages = {{1--17}},
publisher = {{De Gruyter Open}},
series = {{Nordic Journal of Migration Research}},
title = {{Migration and Welfare: Differential Grievabilities in the Swedish Right-Wing Continuum}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/170603625/H_gerb_ck_Norocel_2024_NJMR_Migration_Welfare.pdf}},
doi = {{10.33134/njmr.678}},
volume = {{14}},
year = {{2024}},
}