Hemmafruar i Kalifatet

Sammanfattning: The women of the Islamic State (ISIS) have sparked the interest of the media ever since ISIS proclaimed their caliphate in 2014. Now, after ISIS’ fall in 2019 hundreds of foreign women and their children are being detained in different camps. At home the political debate concerning the women and whether or not they should be allowed to return is ongoing. Through a framinganalysis I have studied 29 articles published in four different Swedish newspapers during the year of 2021. In my analysis I identify five main ways that Swedish media frame the women returning from ISIS: ‘the state's responsibility’, ‘self accountability’, ‘the security threat’, ‘equal treatment’ and ‘housewife of the caliphate’. The articles frame the women in various ways by making different aspects of the women and their situation more salient. In the frames I also identify aspects of Gentry and Sjobergs theory of the narratives surrounding violent women (2007). The essay concludes that the way Swedish media frame the women returning from ISIS contains stereotypical and gendernormative descriptions of women.