Sverigedemokraternas migrationspolitik : En studie av partiets politiska förslag under perioden 1989-2012

Sammanfattning: This essay focuses on the Sweden Democrat’s migration policy and its evolution from 1989 up until today. The purpose of this study is to longitudinally examine the party's migration policy proposals to see if, and how, the political ideas have changed over time. Idea analysis has been used as method, and the texts have been analyzed by using three dimensions. Depending on the outcome in the three dimensions, one out of eight political types is possible. The material has partly consisted of eight different programs issued by the party, and partly by a selection of the party's parliamentary bills on migration. These come from parliament in 2010/11 and 2011/12.   The essay’s results reflect that the Sweden Democrats' immigration policy in general has been consistent during the period 1989 - 2012. Some changes can be discerned, but there are few proposals that have been moving in the three analytical dimensions. The analysis describes the party's immigration policy on the whole, as cultural, exclusive and universal. The Sweden Democrats' policy proposals in 1989-2012, are described as the policy of assimilation, with a few exceptions. In their motion proposal in parliament, the party implements the previously formulated proposals in the earlier programs. The motions that the party has written about immigration during the years 2010/11 and 2011/12, shows great similarities with the immigration policy program from 2007. Key words: The Sweden Democrats, immigration, immigration policy, motions