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In the year of 2009, the debate on unaccompanied children in Sweden was intense. The number of unaccompanied children in Sweden has increased and the Swedish Migration Board estimates that during 2010, approximately 2400 children will arrive. Under the second article of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) the state is required to ensure all children, within its jurisdiction, the ri

The purpose of this essay was to examine how employees with different professions refute abused women and if they have different methods in their work procedures. We also want to see if there are any differences or similarities in work procedures and refutation among our chosen professions. The focus of interest is if an insufficient refutation and work procedure involves consequences for the abus

The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate digitization initiatives in Swedish municipal archives and problematize their reasons for digitizing and their appraisal practices. We argue that the archive is socially constructed and that appraisal decisions are part of shaping our cultural heritage – by examining digitization we will focus specifically on the construction of the digital cultura

The focus of this thesis is the issues regarding the administration of licensed academic resources in resarch libraries and the role of the research library when trading with these resources. It is explored what possibilities and dangers that comes with the ways that libraries handle academic resources, ways that are closely linked to the market criteria in which external commercial actors in diff

The use of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) as means of combating poverty has increased considerably the past decade. CCTs are safety net programs that transfer cash to targeted poor households, often to the mothers, on the condition that those households make pre-specified investments in the human capital of their children. The conditions are often criticised because the conditions only applies

Den konventionella varumärkesforskningen ger en alltför förenklad syn av konsumentens betydelse för ett varumärke. Uppsatsen förespråkar en sociokulturell aspekt där fokus ligger på hur konsumenten skapar mening på en makro-, mikro- och individnivå. Det är konsumenten, inte marknadsföraren, som skapar identitetsvärde och det är människor i konsumentens omgivning som påverkar kundens uppfattningar The conventional brand research provides an overly simplistic view of the consumer's significance to the brand. The paper advocates a socio-cultural aspect where the focus is on how the consumers create meaning on a macro, micro and individual level. It is the consumer and not the marketer, which will create identity; there are people in the consumer’s environment that affect their perceptions

Abstract Through qualitative method, this essay intends to study which expectations exist for school counselors in the school organization, accordning to the new school law (2010:800), which puts demands on all schools to have access to a counselor. The study consists of 24 survey answers from educators, as well as interviews with a special education teacher and a principal. Half of the survey res

This thesis is about combining three archaeological themes; the interpretation of grave contexts, social identities and Iron Age jewellery has been given a place here. The aim was to discern which meanings and functions that can be connected to Migration Period bracteates in graves, and if so how they manifest in the context. Bracteates, small pendants dated to the Migration and Vendel periods, ha

Coffee production systems are experiencing climate change stress in a multitude of ways. One of the ways in which climate change manifests itself in coffee systems is through the evolution of pest and disease populations. Global coffee production is thereby recognized as vulnerable to climate change, particularly the lives of those that rely on coffee for their livelihoods. Reducing vulnerability

Over the past 30 to 40 years comprehensive fishery policies and certification schemes have attempted to halt the rapid decline and exploitation of commercial fish stocks. However, with seafood as one of the most globalized food commodities and the world’s population increasing exponentially, most commercial stocks are thought to be on the brink of collapse. Some estimates exclaiming that all comme

Abstract Author: Anne Ignell Title: Masculinity and crime – a construction? A study of autobiographies Supervisor: Anna Rypi Assessor: Eva Palmblad The aim of this study was to examine how masculinity and a criminal lifestyle is constructed in the story telling of two autobiographies written by men who have a heavy criminal background, and to see how these two constructions relate to each other.

The purpose of this study is to explore the paradox that young women in China find it difficult to search for a husband when there is a surplus of men in the population. The research questions and hypothesis is in concern with how the One Child Policy has a salient impact on the Chinese young women. The methodology involves in-depth interviews among 10 participants and documentary analysis. By obs

The primary purpose to this study was to explore the role of local government in Sweden, primarily through the eyes of some of the people working within one. Consideration of some of the structural characteristics of local government in Sweden, in particular the privileges and responsibilities accorded to local municipalities there and in what context, lead the author to conclude that Swedish muni

Denna studies syfte var att undersöka upplevelser av empowerment hos deltagare i ett empowerment-projekt för personer i arbetslöshet. Semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med tio personer och intervjumaterialet bearbetades genom tematisk analys. Resultatet bildade tio teman: definition av begreppet empowerment, innebörd av empowerment i projektet, likvärdighet mellan deltagare och arbetsledareThe aim of this study was to investigate perceptions and experiences of empowerment among individuals taking part in an empowerment project for people being unemployed. Semistructured interviews were conducted with ten people and analyzed through the usage of thematic analysis. The analysis resulted in ten themes: definition of the concept empowerment, the meaning of empowerment in the present pro

I have in this thesis conducted fieldwork at the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan's digital media department. I was curious to find out how or if the financial instability that is currently sweeping across the newspaper industry is embodied through praxis within a department that many are eager to blame the instability for – that is, a digital media department. I wanted to pinpoint and observe re

My research analysis constitutes the construction of gender and sexuality specifically in the category of Top/Bottom in Korean idol fan fictions. Most of the previous researches focus on the feminization of Bottom that women follow the heterosexual norms through the feminized Bottom although they read and write homoerotic fan fictions. The masculinization of Top is barely problematized. In other w