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Sammanfattning På grund av revolutioner och användning av militärt våld i världen blir frågan om vem som ska anses vara flykting tämligen aktuell. Ett centralt begrepp och rekvisit som måste uppfyllas för att en person ska anses var flykting är att personen ska känna en välgrundad fruktan. I denna uppsats har begreppet tagits under lupp och undersökts i detalj för att fastställa om begreppet välgrSummary The question: Who is to be considered a refugee? Becomes very up-to-date due to increasing amount of revolutions and military violence in the world. A central part of the refugee concept is that the person who is applying for refugee status fells a ”well founded fear”. In this essay the phrase has been examined. The investigation has aimed to find out wether the Swedish interpritation of t

The purpose of this thesis is to put forward a method for collaboration between the fire and rescue service and the societal functions, with the aim to implement measures so that fewer people in risk groups are injured or killed in fire. Following research questions are answered in this thesis: What does the work with individualized fire safety at the rescue service and the social functions look l

Building on Boltanski’s and Thévenot’s notion of the plurality of forms of worth, the chapter focuses on the tension between the world of art (with an inspirational order of worth) and the community organiser’s world (guided by a civic principle of worth). Empirical material comes from VoS, a non-profit community-arts organization in Sweden. The chapter follows the sequence of events, criticisms,

This chapter investigates the characteristics of a successful voluntary sickness fund in early twentieth-century Sweden. The practices of the Seamstresses Sickness and Burial Fund reveal how a working-class organisation functioned in improving the living conditions of its members. When it was first founded in 1898, it was a small all-female and marginal sickness fund, but by the 1930s it had devel

Thanks to name statistics published by the national bureaus of statistics in Scan­dinavia it is possible to study the changing popularity of first names. This paper is based on statistics from the years 1998-2002 in Sweden, 1998-2000 in Finland and 1880-2000 in Norway. The rise and fall in popularity — and in some cases renaissance — of individual names are shown and analyzed.It is observed that

Förord till Johan Nordström: Föredrag om Sigfrid Aronus Forsius hållet vid Lärdomshistoriska samfundets årsmöte i Rikssalen 12/5 1935