Att börja från noll. En studie i storstadssatsningens försök att öka det politiska deltagandet hos Malmös invandrare
Politiskt deltagandeStorstadssatsningenInvandrareMaktMalmöPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapLaw and Political Science
This thesis title starting from zero alludes to storstadssatsningen's democratic work being accomplished among immigrants in Malmö. My thesis examines which types of political participation storstadssatsningen were trying to increase. The goal was to turn the immigrants into political participants, but in many of the projects the democratic work had to focus on building a ground for democratic participation by bringing isolation to an end and teaching the Swedish language. This may have been the reason that there were not extensive forms of resources to put into projects actually raising the political awareness. Some of the projects can however be said to increase a very large number of types of political participation, both temporary and every day participation. I have looked at political participation from a very wide definition of politics: politics meaning power. But also from a wide definition of power including power over decision-making, power over the agenda and finally power over how people see the world, peoples thoughts.