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dc.contributor.authorMakhoul, Lubna
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-25T11:36:23Z
dc.date.available2019-10-25T11:36:23Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2624451
dc.description.abstractLike the vast majority of European countries, Norway receives asylum seekers from all over the world. Most of those have origins in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The vast majority of all asylum seekers in Norway reside in reception centers while waiting for their applications to be assessed by the Norwegian authorities. This study will concentrate on the Obligatory Information Program that asylum seekers receive while residing in reception centers in Norway. My study will investigate the relationship between the objectives of the Information Program from the state’s perspective, and the way that asylum seekers perceive it. I aim to explore the Information Program from the viewpoint both of the recipient, and of the body that delivers it, and to ask whether the two perspectives correspond. The methodology I apply is interpretive analysis of UDI’s policy document on the Information Program, as well as semi-structured interviews with asylum seekers and refugees that have recently attended the program. I connect my empirical data with theories dealing with Multiculturalism, especially in the European/Nordic context. In addition, I refer to research about Norwegian multiculturalism, by, among others, Randi Gressgård, Marianne Gullestad and Anne-Britt Djuve. The main theory upon which this study builds, however, is Edward Said’s Orientalism. This study concludes that the objectives of the Information Program are not fulfilled, at least not according to the perceptions of asylum seekers in reception centers, and that attitudes towards immigrants are characterized by prejudice and not by empirical realities, and therefore need to change. In addition, Norway’s integration policy, in practice, carries elements of assimilation, of a Eurocentric/ethnocentric character, as opposed to inclusion and diversity that are mentioned and proposed in its white papers on integrationnb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherHøgskolen i Sørøst-Norgenb_NO
dc.subjectmenneskerettigheternb_NO
dc.subjectasylsøkerenb_NO
dc.titleMy freedom is: to be what they do not want me to be” Subtitle: A study of Norway’s Integration Policy Through the Obligatory Information Program for Asylum Seekersnb_NO
dc.typeMaster thesisnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200nb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber83nb_NO


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