“Vi pratar om riktiga flyktingar i krig, inte om ekonomiska migranter” : En framinganalys utifrån Socialdemokraterna, Moderaterna och Sverigedemokraternas uttalanden om vem som är den önskvärda migranten.

Migration is a highly debated political subject in Sweden today. The refugee crisis in 2015 resulted in many people fleeing to the European countries where Sweden received a lot of migrants. Due to the crisis, many debates about migrants and integration have been raised in Sweden. Hence the purpose of this study is to examine how Sweden’s currently three biggest parties, the Social democrats, the Moderates and the Swedish democrats, portray migrants, is there “good” and “bad” migrants? This essay is a framing analysis applying Bacchi’s WPR approach and to enable the study we have applied Sara Ahmed’s theory about the abject migrant. Using the applied theory, we have been able to see different perspectives of how migrants are portrayed. According to our analysis based on the results, we can ascertain that the three parties portray “good” and “bad” migrants. The parties agree that the “good” migrant is the one who integrates into society, meanwhile the opinion about the “bad” migrant varies among the parties. By studying the party programs and different statements made by the parties themselves, we can state that some migrants are portrayed in a certain way. The results based on our study indicates a society dividing different people by ethnicity, according to our study there is a “us” and “them” union in the current society we live in