Sveriges integrationspolitik och regeringens framställande av dess utmaningar : En WPR analys av den svenska integrationspolitiken med fokus på arbetsmarknaden ; Sweden's integration policy and the government's presentation of its challenges : A WPR analysis of the Swediish integration policy with a focus on the labor market

This thesis examines how the government presents and addresses the challenges it identifies regarding integration in the labor market in its policy documents. By applying Carol Bacchi’s What’s The Problem Represented To Be? as theory and method, we analyze how the government identifies and represents challenges. We also examine if any aspects brought up by previous research have been identified as challenges, but are left unproblematized and uncommented in the policy documents. The goal of the essay is to investigate and increase understanding and contribute with in depth knowledge of how and in what way challenges, in Sweden’s integration policy with a focus on the labor market, are discursively presented by the government, but also which challenges are raised by previous research but not presented by the government. The result shows that the government makes several recurring representations of problems in the policy documents, including that immigrants need an increased incentive to establish themselves on the labor market and in community life. What is left unproblematized by the government but highlighted by previous research is the structural discrimination on the labor market. Throughout the analyses, a number of concepts have been identified that have been left undefined, for example social establishment/integration.