THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IN SCANDINAVIAN PUBLIC SPHERES 1970-2015
Our research assistants, Lars Finborud and Ingeborg Hedda Paulsen, have written two reports that we are now happy to release. Finborud writes about Immigration in Scandinavian non-fiction literature from 1970-2020. All 127 pages giveyou a unique insight in a subject not yet explored: how immigration has been understood and explained by so-called experts in popular Read More …
Irmelin W. Nilsen shows in this report how immigration and immigrants have been dealt with in the Scandinavian television fiction from 1980 to 2019. Apparent tendencies regarding developments in thematic and the portrayal of immigrants over the time period in question will be explored. The report will conclusively present comparative perspectives on the developments and main Read More …
Hilmar Mjelde and Jan Fredrik Hovden, both members of the SCANPUB team, recently published the article “Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016“, in International Journal of Communication. The article is open access and available at the journal’s website. If you want to read more articles from SCANPUB’s team members, the list of publications is updated. Read More …
In the article “Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter is Fading Fast” SCANPUB’s team member Jens Kjeldsen asks the question: “Can images of suffering really stop war – or change immigration policy?”. The article features an analysis of the photo of two drowning migrants, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter. Kjeldsen gives Read More …