Targeting Khat or Targeting Somalis? A Discourse Analysis of Project Evaluations on Khat Abuse among Somali Immigrants in Scandinavia:

[摘要] BackgroundIn Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the use of the psychoactive plant khat is widely seen as a social and health problem exclusively affecting the Somali immigrant population. Several projects by governmental and municipal bodies and agencies have been initiated to reduce khat use and abuse within this target population.AimThis article analyses the khat abuse discourse as it is presented in evaluation reports describing projects initiated by the social services to reduce khat abuse.MethodsSix publicly available and formally evaluated khat projects conducted in the Scandinavian countries were found, and these evaluation reports were subjected to a Foucauldian discourse analysis. The “What's the problem represented to be?” approach was used to generate questions, which were then applied to the material.Results & CONCLUSIONSThe problem of khat abuse is represented to be that it is the cause of unemployment, lack of integration and relationship issues among Somali immigrants. The analysis shows that the ...

[学科分类] 生物化学/生物物理

[关键词] khat;ethnicity;discourse analysis;cultural competence;Sc;inavia;Somali immigrants