"Reva står mig upp i halsen" : en studie om projektet Reva, en symbol för den institutionella diskrimineringen?

Sammanfattning: In 2009 the project Reva was initiated with the purpose of ameliorate legal certainty and to reduce the trial period, increasing the efficiency and procedures for enforcing the administration of asylum seekers in Sweden. The project was first launched as a pilot project in Malmö in 2011. The project is now operative in the Swedish society at large. The news and social media began reporting how the border police approached people in the subways of Stockholm without grounded suspicions of criminal activities and raised concerns about whether the legal authorities were performing a stop-and-search on people based on racial profiling. This thesis aims to analyze some of the methods used by the Swedish police. The thesis is based on news and debate articles. From a sociology of law perspective, the climate of opinion can have an effect on the methods used by the legal authorities. The conclusion points towards the notion that discrimination on an institutional level upholds the image of "the othe"’ within the Swedish justice system and on a societal level.