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Berättelser om flykten - en kvalitativ studie

Bornander, Pauline LU and Larsson, Louise LU (2025) SOPB63 20242
School of Social Work
Abstract
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that around 120 million people are forcibly displaced around the world and about 32 million of them are refugees. Our aim with this study was to examine and demonstrate the process of forced migration from people's home countries based on a refugee perspective. The method used was a qualitative text analysis of autobiographies written by people that has a history of forced migration. We have done a thematic analysis and used Foucault's theory about biopolitics and Mbembe’s theory about necropolitics and also different ideas such as exclusion, expulsion, and externalization. This study shows that people were forced to migrate because of different reasons and they were... (More)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that around 120 million people are forcibly displaced around the world and about 32 million of them are refugees. Our aim with this study was to examine and demonstrate the process of forced migration from people's home countries based on a refugee perspective. The method used was a qualitative text analysis of autobiographies written by people that has a history of forced migration. We have done a thematic analysis and used Foucault's theory about biopolitics and Mbembe’s theory about necropolitics and also different ideas such as exclusion, expulsion, and externalization. This study shows that people were forced to migrate because of different reasons and they were also forced to do it through different paths. We identified three resources that were keys to managing to migrate. These were the network around people such as family and people they met on their migration journey, but also money and the community of all of the people that were on the migration journey together. We also identified two obstacles that made the migration journey harder for people and that were the different legislation and regulations around migration and also violence, power, and extortion. The conclusion of this study showed that refugees were victims of widespread violence and death on their migration journey and it also showed how the EU’s migration politics leads to life-or-death consequences for refugees. (Less)
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author
Bornander, Pauline LU and Larsson, Louise LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPB63 20242
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Refugee, expulsion, necropolitics, forced migration
language
Swedish
id
9180921
date added to LUP
2025-01-23 15:41:22
date last changed
2025-01-23 15:41:22
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  abstract     = {{The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has estimated that around 120 million people are forcibly displaced around the world and about 32 million of them are refugees. Our aim with this study was to examine and demonstrate the process of forced migration from people's home countries based on a refugee perspective. The method used was a qualitative text analysis of autobiographies written by people that has a history of forced migration. We have done a thematic analysis and used Foucault's theory about biopolitics and Mbembe’s theory about necropolitics and also different ideas such as exclusion, expulsion, and externalization. This study shows that people were forced to migrate because of different reasons and they were also forced to do it through different paths. We identified three resources that were keys to managing to migrate. These were the network around people such as family and people they met on their migration journey, but also money and the community of all of the people that were on the migration journey together. We also identified two obstacles that made the migration journey harder for people and that were the different legislation and regulations around migration and also violence, power, and extortion. The conclusion of this study showed that refugees were victims of widespread violence and death on their migration journey and it also showed how the EU’s migration politics leads to life-or-death consequences for refugees.}},
  author       = {{Bornander, Pauline and Larsson, Louise}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Berättelser om flykten - en kvalitativ studie}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}