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“Blir du lönsam, lille invandrare?”

Stavrou, Neféli LU and Kern, Junis LU (2026) STVK04 20261
Department of Political Science
Abstract
The “teenage deportations” emerged from more austere migration politics and have
received considerable medial attention in Sweden since early January. This paper broadens the literature on the depiction of migrants through this contemporary case and expands previous research, primarily focused on ethnicity, gender and religion. A qualitative critical discourse analysis (CDA), combined with mediatization theory and intersectional theory, explores how age, social class, ethnicity and gender can be integrated to analyze the medial construction of the “desirable” teenage migrant. The discursive construction is analyzed in eight articles published by the major Swedish morning newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet – between... (More)
The “teenage deportations” emerged from more austere migration politics and have
received considerable medial attention in Sweden since early January. This paper broadens the literature on the depiction of migrants through this contemporary case and expands previous research, primarily focused on ethnicity, gender and religion. A qualitative critical discourse analysis (CDA), combined with mediatization theory and intersectional theory, explores how age, social class, ethnicity and gender can be integrated to analyze the medial construction of the “desirable” teenage migrant. The discursive construction is analyzed in eight articles published by the major Swedish morning newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet – between February 18th and March 15th 2026, using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model.
The findings indicate that “desirable” teenage migrants are consistently depicted as
integrated, diligent, well-educated, hardworking and law-abiding, which through discursive neutralisation processes, constitutes legitimate reasons for them to stay in Sweden. Simultaneously, discursive dichotomies emerge, most prominently “us versus them” – an effective discursive tool to include and exclude individuals from the national identity. The study emphasizes how established media mirrors and reproduces underlying power relations connected to intersectional perspectives and illustrates how conditional inclusion within Swedish media migration discourse shapes perceptions of legitimacy, identity and belonging. (Less)
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author
Stavrou, Neféli LU and Kern, Junis LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
En kritisk diskursanalys om DN och SvD:s konstruktion av den “önskvärda” tonårsmigranten
course
STVK04 20261
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
migration, migrationspolitik, Sverige, tonårsutvisningar, kritisk diskursanalys, Faircloughs, medialisering, media, Svenska Dagbladet, Dagens Nyheter, intersektionalitet
language
Swedish
id
9226836
date added to LUP
2026-06-16 11:18:36
date last changed
2026-06-16 11:18:36
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  abstract     = {{The “teenage deportations” emerged from more austere migration politics and have 
received considerable medial attention in Sweden since early January. This paper broadens the literature on the depiction of migrants through this contemporary case and expands previous research, primarily focused on ethnicity, gender and religion. A qualitative critical discourse analysis (CDA), combined with mediatization theory and intersectional theory, explores how age, social class, ethnicity and gender can be integrated to analyze the medial construction of the “desirable” teenage migrant. The discursive construction is analyzed in eight articles published by the major Swedish morning newspapers – Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet – between February 18th and March 15th 2026, using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. 
The findings indicate that “desirable” teenage migrants are consistently depicted as 
integrated, diligent, well-educated, hardworking and law-abiding, which through discursive neutralisation processes, constitutes legitimate reasons for them to stay in Sweden. Simultaneously, discursive dichotomies emerge, most prominently “us versus them” – an effective discursive tool to include and exclude individuals from the national identity. The study emphasizes how established media mirrors and reproduces underlying power relations connected to intersectional perspectives and illustrates how conditional inclusion within Swedish media migration discourse shapes perceptions of legitimacy, identity and belonging.}},
  author       = {{Stavrou, Neféli and Kern, Junis}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{“Blir du lönsam, lille invandrare?”}},
  year         = {{2026}},
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