Malmö och säkerhet - En diskursanalys

Sammanfattning: In Malmö today there is a situation, which is represented by a high rate of organized crime. Due to that situation there have been a large number of killings in the city, often associated with organized crime. These killings have lead to a negative debate about Malmö. And due to the negative focus on the debate surrounding Malmö I decided to evaluate how the discourse about Malmö is presented in the local newspaper Sydsvenskan. When you look in the newspaper, both local and national, Malmö is portrayed as an unsafe place to live in. By using newspaper articles from Malmö´s leading newspaper Sydsvenskan. I gathered information to analyze with process tracing and discourse analysis. Then by using the theories about securitization I was able analyze the discourse and how it’s connected to security and securitization by using the ideas presented by the Copenhagen School. After the analysis I was able to make a conclusion regarding the matter and connect this conclusion to my theory and to Malmö´s situation. The result of my analysis is that the discourse about Malmö in fact is negative and that it does not always correspond with the actual situation. There is a certain difference between the discourse and the real situation.