From Global Justice to National Order?  : An analysis of the newly proposed immigration and integration policies of Sweden

Abstract: In this Master Thesis, I will examine in what sense the proposed changes in the proposed migration and integration policies of the Tidö Agreement (Tidöavtalet) make current policies of the area even stricter. I will also analyse the agreement and the critique against the agreement using two ideal types. I chose to analyse this agreement because I found it interesting that there was a lot of debate about the proposals and therefore I want to analyse what the agreement is and in what sense it makes the Swedish migration and integration policies more restrictive than what they are now. I will use the dimensions constructed by Reidar Larsson as an analytical framework to write my idea analysis. My two ideal types and theories will be social conservatism and cosmopolitanism. I will go through the agreement point by point with a few exceptions and compare current and proposed legislation as well as using my theories to categorize the proposals and the critique. My conclusion shows that the policies will be noticeably much stricter in many aspects and that there is much presence of social conservatism in the agreement and that the critique is more cosmopolitan in nature.