@article{ref1,
title="Sweden: When hate becomes the norm",
journal="Race and class",
year="2013",
author="Hirvonen, Katrina",
volume="55",
number="1",
pages="78-86",
abstract="The author, who worked at the Swedish Vallentuna centre for unaccompanied minors, was shocked by the anti-foreigner climate she encountered. In order to examine the parameters of this hostility, she researched representations of unaccompanied minors online. Working within the framework of netnography, she uncovered a potent mix of Islamophobia and anti-foreigner hate, with unaccompanied minors depicted within a Eurabian mindset. The article reflects on the relationship between offline and online worlds and suggests that extremist sites provide echo chambers for far-right opinion. By normalising extreme views, they serve to deliver more votes to the Sweden Democrats - an extreme-right parliamentary party which is setting the national terms of debate on restricting immigration.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-3968",
doi="10.1177/0306396813486604",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306396813486604"
}