Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden

The overall aim of this article is to explore the ways in which refugee reception and integration work is storied in the local newspapers of two rural municipalities in northern Sweden. Our results show that the strong emphasis on integration through employment present in national policy regimes is...

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Published in:Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Main Authors: Schmauch, Ulrika, Nygren, Katarina Giritli
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Helsinki University Press 2020
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spelling ftjnjmr:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/326 2023-06-11T04:15:22+02:00 Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden Schmauch, Ulrika Nygren, Katarina Giritli 2020-08-27 application/pdf application/xml https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/326 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.326 eng eng Helsinki University Press https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/326/375 https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/326/376 https://account.journal-njmr.org/index.php/uh-j-njmr/article/view/326 doi:10.33134/njmr.326 Copyright (c) 2020 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Nordic Journal of Migration Research; Vol. 10 No. 3 (2020); 15–26 1799-649X Refugee reception Integration work Media analysis Rural Sweden info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftjnjmr https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.326 2023-05-04T19:57:54Z The overall aim of this article is to explore the ways in which refugee reception and integration work is storied in the local newspapers of two rural municipalities in northern Sweden. Our results show that the strong emphasis on integration through employment present in national policy regimes is not readily visible in local media portrayals of integration. Instead, integration work is framed as a matter of commitment of individual refugees, volunteers and government administrative staff and, thus, as work with a high level of social support. We argue that the frame of commitment itself needs to be viewed in relation to the growing public support for limiting the resources available for this kind of work, as well as for the limitations for refugees to enter Sweden in the first place. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Nordic Journal of Migration Research Nordic Journal of Migration Research 10 3 15 26
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Media analysis
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Integration work
Media analysis
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Schmauch, Ulrika
Nygren, Katarina Giritli
Committed to Integration: Local Media Representations of Refugee Integration Work in Northern Sweden
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Media analysis
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description The overall aim of this article is to explore the ways in which refugee reception and integration work is storied in the local newspapers of two rural municipalities in northern Sweden. Our results show that the strong emphasis on integration through employment present in national policy regimes is not readily visible in local media portrayals of integration. Instead, integration work is framed as a matter of commitment of individual refugees, volunteers and government administrative staff and, thus, as work with a high level of social support. We argue that the frame of commitment itself needs to be viewed in relation to the growing public support for limiting the resources available for this kind of work, as well as for the limitations for refugees to enter Sweden in the first place.
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