| dc.description.abstract | The analysis of the Scandinavian immigration discourse from 1970 to 2016 in the newspapers reveals that the arrival of new groups of immigrants led to a widespread and broad debate in the Scandinavian press. Some shared patterns are the increasing salience of the issue in the whole period, seen in the significantly increased volume of coverage and a shift of coverage from news to debate genres, politicization through the increase of national political voices, and coverage of government and party politics, a decreasing focus on immigrants’ rights and increasing focus on the cultural and welfare integration of immigrants from the nineties. In Danish newspapers there is an earlier and stronger shift towards discussing problematic sides of the immigration issue, both financial and cultural. Swedish newspapers are clearly less concerned with such matters, emphasising humanitarian perspectives, with Norway as somewhat a middle case. The debate in Scandinavia also appears to be more humanitarian and less threat-focused than in other European countries. | en_US |
