SVERIGEDEMOKRATERNAS SYN PÅ KRISTENDOM OCH ISLAM En kvalitativ studie om hur Sverigedemokraternas religionsyn skiljer sig i relation till ukrainska och syriska flyktingar

Sammanfattning: The latest election result in Sweden revealed that Sweden democrats, also known as Sverigedemokraterna, became the second biggest voted party in 2022. This caused an enormous debate because of the political party’s well-known conservative and nationalist ideology and is also known for conservative migration policies and solutions. The previous research about Sweden democrats towards migration enlightens negative responses and positive ideals about Christianity. Researching two different types of refugees' groups such as Ukraine and Syrian refugees with two different background religions became therefore relevant. Therefore, previous research about islamofobia, nationalism and populism were taken into consideration for further explanation of this research gap. Both the Syrian and Ukraine war sparked huge debates which unfolded various strong opinions whether the European Union should receive more or less refugees, and how involved the European countries should be. The Ukraine refugees were received positively unlike the Syrian refugees that were received and debated in a negative way. The theoretical framework that is used for this thesis is social identity theory, a theory that describes how norms and values construct identity. The research question got answered by using a qualitative method where the ideological ideas as materials that are consisted of the party’s political speeches and motions between 2014-2022. The study shows that Sweden democrats has indeed a different approach towards Syrian and Ukraine refugees because of their different religions.