Kommunalt flyktingmottagande. En studie av Landskrona- och Vellinge kommuns flyktingmottagande.
The municipality of Landskrona,The municipality of Vellinge,Refugee reception,Postcolonial theory,Content analysis.Political and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapLaw and Political Science
The purpose of this essay was to find an understanding of what factors whichaffect refugee reception in two municipalities in the southern part of Sweden, themunicipality of Vellinge and the municipality of Landskrona. Three interviewswere made with three local politicians and these interviews were then analysedusing postcolonial theory. With the help of Matthew J. Gibney we identified sevenfactors which aided us in the analysis these were: Integration history, Ethnicaffinity, Determining who is a refugee, The wealth of the municipality, Thehousing market, The labour market and The action of other municipalities.We found that these factors were all useful in creating an understanding ofrefugee reception in the two municipalities. However they affected themunicipalities differently. The municipality of Vellinge claimed that economicfactors were the most important when deciding not to receive any refugees.Nevertheless we found that factors like ethnic affinity and integration historyplayed an important part in the decision making as well. In the municipality ofLandskrona we found that refugee reception to a large extent was independent ofpolitic decisions and was instead something that continued without involvementfrom the ruling in the municipality. Refugee reception in Landskrona can insteadbe understood as dependent on the traditions in the municipality, on its ethnicaffinity and on its housing market.