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The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how the theory of collective efficacy can be used to increase our understanding of why boys and young men attack the police and construct fires in arson attacks under riot like circumstances in the subarea Herrgården of Rosengård in the city of Malmö, Sweden. The theory is applied through a comparative case study where a total of 62 interviews were performed in Herrgården and another subarea of Rosengård, Törnrosen. The result is an indication of a low degree of collective efficacy in Herrgården that can help explain why the violence takes place there. Residents of Herrgården express fear and frustration over the situation, feeling that they themselves, the police and society in general is powerless to deal with the problem. To improve the situation this thesis argues that society must show a greater commitment to resolve the problems, with improvement in housing and police relation building being two of the main suggestions.

Authors: Belma Dzafic, Lejla Huseinovic Title:”The flowers of Rosengård will bloom – a qualitative study about young people in a segregated residential area and their thoughts about the area, the surrounding and the future” Supervisor: Charlotta Zettervall The purpose of this study was to examine how young people in the age of 16 – 17 in Rosengård think about their future, their residential area and what they feel media and other people think about them. The respondents in this study have another cultural and ethnic background than the Swedish. In total nine people took part in this study. How do young people in a highly stigmatized residential area feel and think about their future? What role does the residential area play in their future view? And how do they feel about Rosengård? To find the answers to these questions we made a qualitative study. The study is based on interviews with nine young people that are living in Rosengård. To be able to analyze our qualitative interviews we used three theories: Erving Goffman's theory of social stigma, Howard Becker’s labeling theory and Richard Jenkin’s theory of social identity. The results of the study show that young people in Rosengård feel stigmatized and labelled by the media and other people as criminals. The young people in Rosengård feel a togetherness and a belonging to Rosengård and its population. The study also shows that they have plans for the future and that they value education.

Artikeln granskar Rosengårdsrapportens vetenskaplighet

Authors: Carl Lagrelius & Eduardo Ocaña Title: Empowerment in the Community - a qualitative study of Fritids- och Förebyggande Verksamhets work in the community of Rosengård, Malmö. Supervisor: Jan Magnusson The purpose of this study was to examine if the work done by the professional workers of Fritids- och Förebyggande Verksamhet in Rosengård could be considered as a form of empowerment. Furthermore we set out to see if the professional empowering work of ones target group brought with it a feeling of self-empowerment back to the professional worker. Based on a qualitative study where we interviewed six professionals from the organization in question we queried them about their work and set out to look for significant empirical evidence that could be explained with the help of our theoretical frame. Based on different views on empowerment and a meta-theory by Elisheva Sadan who tries to link empowerment to Anthony Giddens Structuration Theory we set out to explain the empirical evidence that we gathered from our respondents. We found that what we saw in Rosengård definitively could be described as empowerment and we also saw evidence of self-empowerment amongst the professional workers.

The aim with this study has been to examine and to analyze the discourse of Rosengård in Swedish media. With the concept of discourse is meant here specific ways to speak about and to understand the world, or a part of it. In order to reach increased understanding regarding media presentations and constructions of Rosengård, I have done a study about how Rosengård has been presented in the Swedish daily and evening press during the violent acts that took place in Rosengård in the spring and summer of 2008, when youths regarding to media put cars and containers on fire, and also threw stones at fire engines and other emergency service vehicles when these had to turn out to put out the fires. The collected data, containing newspaper articles, has been analyzed on the basis of the critical discourse analysis, CDA, which is a mould of a textanalytical method. This study applies a social constructivist perspective. The following conclusions, among others, could be reached in this study: among those reality descriptions that were constructed about Rosengård in the daily and evening press during the spring and summer of 2008, Rosengård was presented as a dangerous and threat full concrete suburb full of "immigrants". The picture of Rosengård as a problematic "immigrant suburb", were outsidership and social problems constitute the inhabitants' everyday existence, dominates in the press. Rosengård as a geographic area, together with its inhabitants comprising the "immigrants", must thereof stand as representative for all the things that "we" consider as unknown and deviating. Rosengård, together with its inhabitants, have in other terms in media contexts become objects for territorial stigmatization.

The purpose of this essay was to investigate the experience of being young and living in Herrgården in Rosengård, Malmö, from the aspects of six adolescents, two police officers, one social worker and one youth leader; and also what the cause is according to them, of disturbances arousing like those in the spring of 2007. At this moment there were antagonisms between adolescents and policemen. The research was performed with a qualitative method based on partly structured interviews. Four kinds of main themes were notable from the interview results. Those were: Growing up in Herrgården, Other peoples' view of Herrgården, Identity and Causes of the disturbances. The housing area Herrgården is a constant subject for media news watch and average people tend to generalize their opinions based on what they hear and read about Herrgården primarily from television and newspapers. The adolescents in the essay expressed their affection for their neighbourhood at the same time as they fought the prejudices coming from media. The interviewed persons working in the area described the situation of the young people as characterized by social problems and lack of integration. The adolescents explained the disturbances in the area mainly as a result of shortage of leisure-time activities. The policemen, the social worker and the youth leader gave the discontent and frustration of lack of recourses in general among the dwellers, as a cause of commotions.

För cirka ett år sedan, hösten 2004, skedde en intensiv debatt i Sydsvenskan kring hur stadsdelen Rosengård i Malmö presenterats i media. Man menade att mediebilden som presenterats var skev i jämförelse med hur verkligheten faktiskt såg ut. Problemet med att den mediebild som presenteras av förorterna i dagspressen är skev i jämförelse med hur verkligheten ser ut är ingen ny frågeställning. Debatten har de senaste tio åren både kommit och gått kring vilket ansvar massmedia har gentemot förortsområden och dess invånare, som ofta till stor del utgörs av individer från andra kulturer. Tidningarna som säger sig värna om det demokratiska samhället marginaliserar områden som Rosengård genom en alldeles för ensidig bevakning. Istället för att verka för integration blir resultatet tvärtom att klyftorna mellan olika samhällsgrupper vidgas. Vi har valt att titta på Rosengård genom att undersöka den dagliga rapporteringen från Sydsvenskans Malmödel under perioden 1 september, 2005 till och med den 31 oktober 2005. Vi valde att jämföra Rosengård med tre andra stadsdelar i Malmö för att på så sätt se om Rosengård särbehandlades i Sydsvenskan i jämförelse med de andra stadsdelarna. Studien visade precis som vi förmodat att rapporteringen från Rosengård ger en negativ bild av livet i stadsdelen. Artiklar om brott, olyckor och sociala problem dominerar rapporteringen i Sydsvenskan och då inte enbart i Rosengård utan även i de andra stadsdelarna i studien. Vi förmodar att det här är en effekt av dels tidningens nyhetsvärdering samt att man vill reproducera en bild av området som har funnits sedan 1970-talet. Detta är inget som vi tror är medvetet från tidningens sida utan det "sitter i väggarna". Det är tydligt att Sydsvenskan har haft en stor fokus på nyhetsbevakningen av Rosengård men har fortfarande en bit kvar på vägen till en allsidig och korrekt bild av Rosengård. Om tidningen vill ta sitt demokratiska ansvar så måste den arbeta mer med mångfald och bryta loss från gamla värd

De svårigheter invandrarungdomar från invandrartäta områden stöter på i den svenska skolan uppmärksammas ofta, vilket leder till att det politiska målet blir att försöka hitta lösningar på problemen. I denna uppsats ville vi uppmärksamma ungdomar med utländsk bakgrund som väljer att högskoleutbilda sig, i syfte att nyansera den i nuläget negativ bild som finns av unga invandrare från segregerade områden och deras skolprestationer. Vi genomförde sju intervjuer med kosovaalbaner från Rosengård. Intervjuerna hade en livshistorisk karaktär eftersom vi hade som avsikt att analysera deras livsöden. Centrala begrepp i vår analys var habitus, kapital, stigmatisering och identitet. Vi har, med hjälp av dessa huvudbegrepp, analyserat intervjupersonernas väg till högre utbildning. Vi har även presenterat inblickar i deras tankar och känslor kring de möjligheter respektive hinder de mött under sin utbildning. Vi har dragit slutsatsen, utifrån livshistorierna, att ungdomarna upplevt viss stigmatisering under sin utbildningsgång på grund av sin bakgrund. De har trots detta kunnat förvalta sitt kulturella och sociala kapital och utvecklat (eller förstärkt) ett habitus som lämpar sig för konkurrensen i den svenska skolmiljön.

The aim of the paper is to examine how public libraries can develop their services for children with ethnic minority backgrounds as a user group. This is achieved through studying the conditions for library services provided for children aged 9-12 in this group by public libraries in suburbs densely populated with ethnic minorities. The paper uses both a literature review and empirical research on the community libraries in Rinkeby and Rosengård as well as the town library in Lund. Services potentially available to these groups are analysed and discussed in the later chapters. The overall conclusion is that those services provided for ethnic minority children are largely the same as those provided for in children library services in general. However, there are differences in that some services provided for ethnic minority children differ in content whereas others differ in significance. Furthermore, there are extra services available for these children. The conclusion manifests a description of the most central library services provided for ethnic minority children, namely: service-specific media selection, language teaching with the use of concrete methods, provision of a free activity area, homework assistance and Internet access.