Den Problemfyllda Förorten : En Kvalitativ Intervjustudie om Upplevelserna av att Bo i Förorten

Sammanfattning: The main ambition of this study is to investigate and examine how informants between the age of 18-26 experience the suburbs. Furthermore, my study is based on three main questions which are 1. How does the informants describe growing up and live in the suburbs? 2. What experience does the informants have regarding the interaction with people who lives outside the suburbs? Does living in the suburbs affect the daily life of the informants, such as the workplace or education? The main motive to this study is my ambition to examine if the picture that often are described in the media are true according to the studies informants. Point to be noted is that my study is not about the representation of the suburbs by the media, rather it is about the informants’ subjective reflections about living in the suburbs. The empirical data have shown some similarities of the informants in terms of describing how it is to live and being raised in the suburbs. Furthermore, the empirical data have shown that some positive aspects regarding living in the suburbs. The positive aspects in this chase are for example belonging, acceptance and unity which the informants have described. On the other hand, some of the informants in the study describe some negative aspects regarding living in the suburbs. The difficulty in this case is about attitudes towards the suburbs and the people who are living there and exclusion for example in the labor market or in the workplace. The theoretical perspectives which I have used in my study are theories about stigma by Erving Goffman, discrimination, and marginalization.