Det var livet att slåss, att alltid vara en krigare : En studie om unga i vit makt

Sammanfattning: We have studied the process of recruiting young people to the white power movement. With the help of theoretical concepts as Outsiders and Stigma, we have elaborated the purpose of the study. The focus of the study lays in finding out which elements contributes to adolescence seeking membership in white power, and furthermore what white power organizations offers young people, to attract them to recruitment. We also want to find out if it possibly lays a desire for communion, behind adolescences decision to join these movements, and also how the communion manitains within the group? To expand our knowledge in the field of White Power, we have taken note of a body of literature that deals with the current topic, and previous research that treats questions about subculture, community and recruitment. The methodology underlying this approach is qualitative in nature, with interviews and informant-research of four former supporters of white power. Our empirical data shows that young people enter this movement, when feeling alienated, neglected and abused by social institutions. For young people who seeks belonging in life, the belonging is easier to find in an environment of a divergent nature. Especially if the adolescence lacks of safeness and belonging. Furthermore, most of these youths have a deviant behavior, where they replace their primary emotions with secondary in the form of threats and violence to achieve power and control over as many as possible. However what really comes to show, is that those whom recruited, find themselves in an alienation with deviant tendencies.