Det diskursiva skapandet av en nation och en främling. En kritisk diskursanalys av hur Lifos rapport diskursivt skapar bilden av den somaliska kvinnan och en svensk jämställdhet.

Abstract

In this essay I perform a critical discourse analysis of a report on the situation of Somali women by Lifos, the Swedish Migration Boards Country of Origin Information system. With postcolonial feminist theory and theorisation of women’s positions in national projects I will use Swedish gender egalitarianism as a point of comparison to discuss the discourses that construct the social identity of Somali women. By relating the discourses identified in the report to postcolonial feminist theory I discuss how the Somali women are construed as apolitical and biological; conditioned by culture and tradition, in contrast to the construction of the ‘Swedish model’ of a modern and equal society.