%0 Journal Article
%T Problematising refugee migrants in the Swedish forestry sector
%A Anna St¨¦ns
%A Eva Wikstr£¿m
%J Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
%@ 1996-7284
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1024258919827133
%X In this article, ideas behind current Swedish efforts to integrate refugees in ¡®green¡¯ industries are analysed. We ask why the employment of refugees in forestry, a sector historically and globally notorious for its abuse of migrant workers, has come to be regarded as a solution in official Swedish migration policy. A discourse analytical approach is applied, analysing what the arguments are for introducing refugees to forestry work and how the forest, as a space, is depicted and used discursively as a means for refugee integration. The sources for the analyses consist of articles appearing in the printed press from 2015 to 2017. Three main problem discourses are identified: the ¡®labour shortage¡¯ discourse, the ¡®refugees in need of work¡¯ discourse and the ¡®forest as a health-promoting learning environment¡¯ discourse. The hazardous aspects of forestry work or the fact that refugees might be overqualified for the jobs offered are generally left unproblematised
%K Migrant workers
%K refugees
%K integration
%K forestry work
%K Sweden
%K ¡®refugee crisis¡¯
%K ¡®What-is-the-problem-represented-to-be?¡¯ (WPR) approach
%K media analysis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1024258919827133