En för alla, alla för en? En teoriutvecklande studie om könstillhörighet hos parlamentariker påverkar den migrationspolitik de för

There is now a body of literature that addresses whether female parliamentarians differ from male parliamentarians in their politics. However, to my knowledge there has not yet been a study that measures if female parliamentarians are more likely to be generous when it comes to immigration policies. In this study I set out to fill this gap by testing if female parliamentarians in the Swedish parliament are more generous regarding immigration than their male colleagues. I do so by examining eight different areas in immigration politics during two years, using Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) indicators to classify different propositions as restrictive or generous. I measure if female parliamentarians are more likely to submit restrictive or generous propositions. By comparing the number of times male parliamentarians submit restrictive or generous propositions to female parliamentarians, I’m able to show that female parliamentarians are more likely to submit generous propositions regarding immigration policies and that male parliamentarians are more likely to submit restrictive propositions. My results also indicate that there has been an increasing amount of restrictive proposition from 2009 to 2017, I discuss whether this development could be caused by a normalization of restrictive attitudes towards immigrants in general