Roma Participation in Mainstream Swedish and German Newspaper Discourse
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 20 pages, pdf Description: In this paper, I examine the prevalence of Roma voices within the dominant media discourses of Sweden and Germany over a two-year period. I analyse the results of this research through a number of theories that pertain specifically to the exclusion of minority groups, drawing on the ideas of the ‘Other’ in European identity-building as presented by theorists such as Edward W. Said and Gerard Delanty, media representation and race as discussed by Stuart Hall and Simon Cottle, and the importance of access to and participation in discourse about oneself as explained by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.