En rasistisk integrationspolitik? En studie av utredningen om strukturell diskriminering och den mediala debatten kring denna

Sammanfattning: In august 2006 the Swedish government official report (SOU) about the structural discrimination was published and caused a lot of debate in the media. This paper is about the report as such, as much as the academic quarrel it caused in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. My aim is to explore why the report is so provocative and what the debate actually is about. I use discourse analysis both as a method and theoretical framework, inspired by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Using this methodology I explore which discourses that are articulated. My conclusion is that the debate on one hand is an academic conflict between a qualitative and a quantitative approach, both defining the question of what science is differently. On the other hand the report is about how we define integration politics today. The report means that there is structural discrimination due to our colonial history that even makes the integration politics a product of structural discrimination. The provocation is caused by the conflicting positions both between the academic views and because the report is challenging the discourse of the current integration politic.