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Den bortglömda invandringen - En kritisk diskursanalys om hur dagspressen skilrade de italienska arbetskraftsinvandrarna

Lundström, Ebba LU (2021) STVK02 20211
Department 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
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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  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. 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”.}},
  author       = {{Lundström, Ebba}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Den bortglömda invandringen - En kritisk diskursanalys om hur dagspressen skilrade de italienska arbetskraftsinvandrarna}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}