A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden

Ekman, Mattias; Krzyżanowski, Michał

doi:10.2478/nor-2021-0007

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“…However, several of our respondents say that they now feel vindicated by the reporting on this issue in recent years. Following the European immigration crisis in 2015, the public discussion and media reporting in Sweden has shifted towards a more restrictive view on immigration (Ekman and Krzyżanowski, 2021). Nevertheless, this shift has not changed the respondents’ feeling of resentment towards the media; rather, for many of our respondents, the opposite seems to be the case.…”

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Media resentment

Jakobsson,

Stiernstedt

2024

European Journal of Communication

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Building on an interview study from Sweden (n = 80), this article develops the concept of media resentment as a tool for understanding contemporary developments such as the diminished trust in news media and journalism. We view media resentment as a complex of feelings and ideas that are both individual and social, embodied, and ideal. Media resentment is defined as the feeling that the media – intentionally or unintentionally – are denying you or endangering what you have rightfully earned, whether by not giving it to you, by directly telling you to abstain from it or by intervening in social processes so that your enjoyment of what you have earned becomes impossible.

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Media resentment

Jakobsson,

Stiernstedt

2024

European Journal of Communication

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“…The shift was dramatic, with the then prime minister switching from clearly advocating against border controls earlier in the fall toward a much more stern policy a few months later. The political parties went from a consensus, where generous refugee policies were regarded as preferable and a win-win for refugees and society, to a situation where the parties blamed each other for irresponsible polices regarding the large number of immigrants in Sweden and its demanding consequences (Ekman & Krzyżanowski, 2021). One of the top priorities of the new center-right government, installed in October 2022, was to drastically reduce the number of asylum seekers to Sweden and even encourage immigrants who have problems finding a job to leave the country.…”

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Misrepresentation and migration

Kärnä,

Öhberg

2023

Kyklos

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In a representative democracy, politicians should either implement policies that voters want or policies that politicians believe are in voters long‐term interest, even if voters currently oppose them. The exact balance between these goals is debatable and politicians' policy engagement can tempt them to dismiss voters' preferences and resist information counter to their own policy position. In this paper, we discuss Sweden's generous migration policy and how it can serve as an example where politicians' policy engagement led them to a overly optimistic view of the implications of welcoming a large influx of refugees. Using detailed, repeated, survey data on members of parliament, we show that Swedish politicians favored a much more generous policy toward accepting refugees than voters for a long period of time. Neither observable factors nor expert knowledge can explain this difference between voters and politicians. A more likely explanations is wishful thinking and policy engagement from politicians that continued until political competition increased.

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“…However, it can also be used by mainstream right-wing political actors in more 'civil' versions of similar argumentative frameworks (cf. Ekman and Krzyżanowski, 2021, for a discussion on civil and uncivil argumentation).…”

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The great replacement: Strategic mainstreaming of far-right conspiracy claims

Ekman

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This paper assesses how the ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory (the idea that ethnically homogeneous populations in European nations are being ‘replaced’ by people of non-European origin) is articulated online by three different actors. By analyzing argument patterns and multimodal features of the cases, the paper shows that the conspiracy theory is a flexible political discourse that can be used strategically by both far-right and mainstream right-wing actors. It highlights the role of affect in online communication, and particularly how anti-immigration actors feed off circulating emotions such as insecurity and fear among the citizenry. The results show that processes of demographic change, caused by immigration, are negatively politicized through the use of pseudo-scientific sources, historic narratives of ethnic homogeneity, threat frames, visual fear appeals and other elements that constitute the wider conspiracy theory of an ongoing ‘replacement’ of native populations. The paper argues that the mainstreaming of conspiracy claims and theories related to immigration poses a threat, not only to democratic institutions and societies, but also to people of immigrant backgrounds.

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A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden

Cited by 25 publications

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Media resentment

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