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Securitisation of the Swedish migration policy and the situation for unaccompanied children
Mälardalen University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Health and Welfare.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6079-6755
Mälardalen University, School of Business, Society and Engineering, Industrial Economics and Organisation. Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. (IEO; DEM; Normkritiska studier i social utsatthet)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1205-2521
Södertörn University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9611-578X
2023 (English)In: Crisis and the Culture of Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Europe. / [ed] Zamorano Llena, C.; Stier, J.; Gray, B, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2023, p. 103-118Chapter in book (Other academic)
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Sweden has been recognised as one of the most generous countries in terms of the governance of migration and asylum. The 2015 “refugee crisis” placed the Swedish migration and asylum system under extreme pressure when more than 163,000 refugees arrived in 2015. Like other EU members, Swedish migration policies have become gradually more restrictive, legitimised by the discourse of securitisation, whereby migration is addressed as a threat. By taking “securitisation” as a conceptual point of departure, the aim of this chapter is to analyse the official statements and non-official motives behind the securitisation turn of Sweden’s post-2015 migration policy and relate them to the vulnerable situation unaccompanied immigrants experienced when they came to Sweden in 2015 as refugees and asylum seekers. However, even if some of the interviewees had experienced racism and other negative attitudes and felt ill at ease waiting for their residency permit, unaccompanied immigrants are not necessarily vulnerable victims without the capacity and will to learn a new language, educate themselves and find a job.

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New York: Taylor & Francis, 2023. p. 103-118
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-61323DOI: 10.4324/9781003290254-7Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85163499763ISBN: 9781032268606 (print)ISBN: 9781000916836 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-61323DiVA, id: diva2:1719720
Available from: 2022-12-15 Created: 2022-12-15 Last updated: 2023-07-19Bibliographically approved

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