Attityder, migration och medborgare

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to investigate the attitudes of Swedish citizens towards the amount of migration. Furthermore, how these attitudes relate to whether the citizen believes that migration makes Sweden a better or worse country to live in. Through a discourse analysis, investigate whether the attitude portrayed by the media matches the statistical results and how these relationships differ between the years 2014 and 2018. The research questions are “Does the media's image of migration agree with the statistical account of citizens' attitudes towards the amount of migration?” and “Does the independent variable "Immigrant make country a better/worse place to live" affect citizens' attitudes towards the amount of migration?”. In this essay four different theories are used; The stranger and the other, The concept of representation by Stuart Hall, Critical discourse analysis - Fairclough's three-dimensional model and Social constructivism. The result of this essay is that Swedish citizens have a positive attitude towards the amount of migration. The image portrayed by the news media does not match the generalizable statistical result. On the other hand, there are still citizens who have a more negative attitude towards the migration crowd, but they are an absolute minority.