Family First - En analys av Ungerns Family Protection Action Plan

Sammanfattning: This essay studies the expression of the nationalist discourse within Hungary's Family Protection Action Plan, a policy created due to low fertility rates. The study is conducted through a critical and discourse analytic approach. Methodologically, the essay is based on a feminist research ethic and Carol Lee Bacchis What's the problem represented to be ?. The Family Protection Action Plan creates financial incentives for childbirth and the spokesmen argue that the policy intends to increase women's independence. However, the analysis finds overarching nationalist claims, with a silence around the gendered order that install women as reproducers of the nation. This essay suggests that the financial incentives are a way for the state to steer the population in a desirable direction with the consequence that the traditional gender roles within the nation are at risk of being consolidated. This is at the expense of women's self-determination.