Fördrivning av socialbidragstagare i Sverige: Problemrepresentationer hos kommuner och organisationer i civilsamhället
(2022) GNVM03 20221Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- This study examines displacement of people in need of social assistance in Sweden, a phenomenon that received media attention during the fall of 2020 under the name “social dumping”, that describes how municipalities around the country actively forces people to move to other municipalities. Through interviews with employees within municipalities who have received displaced people in need of social assistance and civil society organizations, discourses are examined by focusing on how they present displacement as a problem. Discourses from municipalities and civil society are also discussed in relation to each other and how they through their problem representations construct social assistance receivers as a group.
In the interviews,... (More) - This study examines displacement of people in need of social assistance in Sweden, a phenomenon that received media attention during the fall of 2020 under the name “social dumping”, that describes how municipalities around the country actively forces people to move to other municipalities. Through interviews with employees within municipalities who have received displaced people in need of social assistance and civil society organizations, discourses are examined by focusing on how they present displacement as a problem. Discourses from municipalities and civil society are also discussed in relation to each other and how they through their problem representations construct social assistance receivers as a group.
In the interviews, five central problem representations are identified that together present the interview participant’s perspective on Swedish welfare. It is addressed that there are structural problems and discourses on both national and local level in the Swedish welfare regime that enables and motivates municipalities around the country to systematically displace people from their homes. An extensive restructuring and deregulation of the housing market during many years has produced fundamental inequalities in Sweden, creating opportunities for displacement. Changes within the Swedish welfare has also been driven by marketization discourses as the interview participants talk about an increased tendency for the social services to deny social assistance or support. Neoliberal influences in Sweden has also constructed social assistance receivers as economic and social problems that do not live up to the ideal of the good citizen, which to a certain extent is reproduced by interview participants from municipalities. Displacement of newly arrived migrants further clarifies how neoliberal and racist discourses together operate and exclude people in Sweden. (Less) - Abstract (Swedish)
- Denna studie undersöker fördrivning av socialbidragstagare, ett fenomen som uppmärksammades i media hösten 2020 under namnet ”social dumpning”, vilket beskrev hur kommuner runt om i landet genom socialtjänsten aktivt tvingar personer i behov av ekonomiskt bistånd att flytta till andra kommuner. Genom intervjuer med anställda i kommuner som tagit emot fördrivna socialbidragstagare samt civilsamhällesorganisationer undersöks diskurser i hur de presenterar fördrivning som ett problem. Diskurserna från kommunerna och civilsamhället diskuteras även i relation till varandra och hur de i sina problemrepresentationer konstruerar socialbidragstagare som grupp.
I intervjuerna identifieras fem centrala problemrepresentationer som tillsammans... (More) - Denna studie undersöker fördrivning av socialbidragstagare, ett fenomen som uppmärksammades i media hösten 2020 under namnet ”social dumpning”, vilket beskrev hur kommuner runt om i landet genom socialtjänsten aktivt tvingar personer i behov av ekonomiskt bistånd att flytta till andra kommuner. Genom intervjuer med anställda i kommuner som tagit emot fördrivna socialbidragstagare samt civilsamhällesorganisationer undersöks diskurser i hur de presenterar fördrivning som ett problem. Diskurserna från kommunerna och civilsamhället diskuteras även i relation till varandra och hur de i sina problemrepresentationer konstruerar socialbidragstagare som grupp.
I intervjuerna identifieras fem centrala problemrepresentationer som tillsammans framför intervjudeltagarnas perspektiv på den svenska välfärden. Det framkommer att det både finns strukturella problem och diskurser på såväl nationell som lokal nivå i den svenska välfärdsregimen som möjliggör för och motiverar kommuner runt om i landet att systematisk fördriva människor från sina hem. Bostadsmarknadens omfattande omstrukturering och avreglering under många år har producerat en grundläggande ojämlikhet i Sverige som ger utrymme för fördrivning. Förändringar inom den svenska välfärden har också drivits av nyliberala diskurser där intervjudeltagarna berättar att det blir vanligare och mer accepterat att neka socialbidragstagare stöd. Nyliberalismens inflytande har också konstruerat socialbidragstagare som ekonomiska och sociala problem som inte lever upp till idealet om den goda medborgaren, vilket till viss del reproduceras från intervjudeltagare från kommunerna. Fördrivningen av nyanlända tydliggör också hur nyliberala och rasistiska diskurser tillsammans opererar och exkluderar människor i Sverige. (Less)
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- author
- Jansson, Frida LU
- supervisor
- organization
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- GNVM03 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Displacement, municipality, civil society, social services, welfare regimes, fördrivning, kommun, civilsamhälle, socialtjänst, välfärdsregimer
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- Swedish
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- 9084958
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- 2022-06-09 08:07:27
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abstract = {{This study examines displacement of people in need of social assistance in Sweden, a phenomenon that received media attention during the fall of 2020 under the name “social dumping”, that describes how municipalities around the country actively forces people to move to other municipalities. Through interviews with employees within municipalities who have received displaced people in need of social assistance and civil society organizations, discourses are examined by focusing on how they present displacement as a problem. Discourses from municipalities and civil society are also discussed in relation to each other and how they through their problem representations construct social assistance receivers as a group.
In the interviews, five central problem representations are identified that together present the interview participant’s perspective on Swedish welfare. It is addressed that there are structural problems and discourses on both national and local level in the Swedish welfare regime that enables and motivates municipalities around the country to systematically displace people from their homes. An extensive restructuring and deregulation of the housing market during many years has produced fundamental inequalities in Sweden, creating opportunities for displacement. Changes within the Swedish welfare has also been driven by marketization discourses as the interview participants talk about an increased tendency for the social services to deny social assistance or support. Neoliberal influences in Sweden has also constructed social assistance receivers as economic and social problems that do not live up to the ideal of the good citizen, which to a certain extent is reproduced by interview participants from municipalities. Displacement of newly arrived migrants further clarifies how neoliberal and racist discourses together operate and exclude people in Sweden.}},
author = {{Jansson, Frida}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Fördrivning av socialbidragstagare i Sverige: Problemrepresentationer hos kommuner och organisationer i civilsamhället}},
year = {{2022}},
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