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    ‘Masculinity, Migration and Marginalization’: How Male Asylum Seekers are Perceived by the Swedish Migration Agency and its Implications for the Asylum Process
    (2021-11-19) Jern, Jessie; University of Gothenburg/School of Global Studies; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier
    This thesis takes a particular interest in the determination of state granted protection needs amongst male asylum seekers in Sweden. Using a mixed research method consisting of textual analysis on official documents by the Swedish Migration Agency (SMA) and semi-structured interviews with SMA officials, along with a feminist post-colonial theoretical framework, this thesis scrutinizes the relationship between masculinity, migration, and vulnerability. The research questions (RQ) seek to identify, describe, and analyze the values involved in the utterance (or lack thereof) of gender, vulnerability, and masculinity at the SMA and to discuss the impact these discourses may have on the determination of men’s specific vulnerabilities. The thesis finds that asylum officials, gender coordinators, gender equality experts and educators at the SMA lack satisfactory understanding of male asylum-seekers vulnerabilities. The results indicate that SMA discourses about men as ‘non-gendered’-, ‘capable’-, ‘opportunistic’-, ‘protecting’-, and/or ‘oppressive’-subjects might negatively impact these men’s perceived belonging in the protection category. By discussing how the masculinity discourses listed above risk marginalize migrant men, this thesis identifies and displays the inadequately recognized vulnerabilities that seem to characterize the nexus of masculinity, migration, and marginalization at the SMA.
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    Vi måste hjälpa dom stackars flyktingarna: En kritisk diskursanalys av hjälpande, medlidande och andrafiering i Facebook-gruppen "Grannar i Torslanda"
    (2018-03-21) Jern, Jessie; University of Gothenburg/School of Global Studies; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier
    This single case study conducted with critical discourse analysis on qualitative interviews and comment fields, aims to critically reflect on the significance of the postcolonial concept of othering. Therefore, the first issue of the essay is about seeking to identify the dominant discourses associated with well-meaning helping expressions in the Facebook-group "Grannar i Torslanda" regarding the "in between- accommodation for refugees" of Lilleby Camping. By incorporating previous research on pity, postcolonial theory and critical whiteness studies, well-meaning and helpful statements towards refugees is analyzed through power relations. The second issue concerns how the discourses can be deconstructed to gain a better understanding of the underlying causes of pity, which is investigated through in-depth interviews and a psychologically theory along with the postcolonial perspective. This study indicates how helpful expressions towards refugees could contribute to the strengthening and maintenance of othering, but also how the colonial discourse about "the other" could be deconstructed and criticized through those expressions. There was also found a connection between power and pity.