This paper explores how the Scandinavian monarchs work through the issue of immigration in their New Year’s speeches during the years 1972–2017. Exploring immigration debate through the royal speeches provides new understanding of the issue, because the opinions of the monarch are supposed to be apolitical. Royal rhetoric is expected to embrace the whole nation, and not evoke debate. Thus, the New Year’s speeches, offer a unique insight into how identity and immigration are worked through and negotiated nationally. Comparing Denmark, Norway and Sweden is particularly revealing, because these countries share dominant traits and circumstances such as religion, institutional and political systems, common history, party dominance, size and more. In spite of this, they differ significantly in the way they deal with citizenship regulation and the way they debate immigration. Exploring how the royal speeches use different topoi and constitute nationhood and immigrants, provide an understanding for the values and moral foundations that the differences in rhetoric and regulation is built on. The study reveals that the speeches of the Danish Queen constitute Denmark as a rooted nation, the Norwegian King constitutes Norway as a rights nation, and the Swedish King constitute Sweden as an immigrant nation.

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在移民公共话语中的皇家干预：斯堪的纳维亚君主新年演讲中关于移民的修辞托皮

本文探讨了斯堪的纳维亚君主在1972-2017年新年演讲中如何解决移民问题。通过王室演说来探讨移民辩论可以使人们对该问题有新的理解，因为君主的观点被认为是非政治性的。皇家的言论被认为会笼罩整个国家，而不会引起争论。因此，新年的演讲，提供了一个独特的见解，以了解如何通过身份认同和移民在全国范围内进行谈判。丹麦，挪威和瑞典的比较尤其具有启发性，因为这些国家具有主要特征和情况，例如宗教，体制和政治制度，共同历史，政党统治，规模等等。尽管如此，他们在处理公民身份规定的方式以及辩论移民的方式上有很大的不同。探索王室演说如何使用不同的拓扑结构以及如何构成国家和移民，从而了解修辞和规章制度的差异所基于的价值观和道德基础。研究表明，丹麦皇后的讲话构成丹麦为有根的国家，挪威国王构成挪威为维权国家，瑞典国王构成瑞典为移民国。