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The thesis explores how the political discourse on refugees and asylum seekers is produced within portfolio committee meetings at the South African parliament. A critical discourse analysis investigates how statements of delegates of the Department of Home Affairs and Social Development foster unequal power relations and construct social identities perpetuating the on-going discourse on refugees a

Flann O´Briens The Third Policeman är skriven 1940 men publicerades 1967, efter författarens död. Några av de narrativa grepp som används i berättelsen undersöks. Tidsordningen i berättelsen jämförs med tidsordningen i den berättade storyn med utgångspunkt från teori i Gérard Genettes Narrative Discourse-An Essay in Method. Den totala tidens varaktighet (duration) i berättelsen jämförs med den tot

This essay explores some of the basic norms that exist in two groups that live under honor-related oppression. The two groups we have studied are cults and families that have honor-related norms. By applying Länsstyrelsens definition of honor-related oppression to situations that exists in cults and families with honor-related oppression we have identified the existence of some norms concerning ho

Det här examensarbetet grundar sig på en översättning av den tyske författaren Daniel Kehlmanns Diese sehr ernsten Scherze. Poetikvorlesungen (2007). Efter en inledande källtextanalys följer en redogörelse för de strategiska överväganden som låg till grund för översättningen. Arbetet avslutas sedan med en fördjupande översättningskommentar där två specifika översättningsproblem näranalyseras i rel

How is the police violence described and is it of any importance? The Parliamentary Ombudsman (JO) has to in the public interest watch over the constitutional protection, which each citizen in Sweden receives, by directing the attention at the authorities’ shortcomings in judicial practice. When complaint against Police authority with the claim that violence has been exercised by police comes to J

Ett enhetligt SAS – samspelet mellan vision, kultur & image Den 12 november 2012 gick Scandinavian Airlines ut till allmänheten med en sparplan som skulle hindra bolaget från att gå i konkurs. En stor kris hade utveck-lats, anställningar skulle tas bort och tillgångar skulle säljas. Krisen medförde ett stort medieutrymme och diskussionerna kring krisen var många, på traditionella medier såväl

The housing market in Sweden today has submitted to the rules of commercial markets. The de-mand is rising while the supply is decreasing; pushing rents to go up. The interest in building apartment blocks is low due to high costs and low revenue. Prior to 1991 private actors was encouraged to enter the housing market through tax revenues and loan subventions and through Public-Private Partnerships

As globalization advances, so does international trading. This Bachelor’s thesis’ purpose is to analyze in what way corporations conform to human rights by using suppliers in a globalized environment and what impact globalization has on corporation’s actions in accordance with human rights. By qualitatively analyzing documents and by conducting an argumentation analysis, the methodological foundat

The purpose of this study is to question the neutrality in the reports from Al Jazeera and BBC about the Israeli military operation “Pillar of Defense” that took place in November 2012. The study is conducted through different linguistic and structural analyses that aim to find ideological patterns in the way the agencies report about the events. Since both agencies claim to be neutral and not pol

The study aims to examine the impact of Expressive Suppression (ES), on Working Memory (WM) performance when exposed to mild pain reaction causing physiological activation. Performance measures are obtained to discriminate between three groups having their hands in warm water, cold water, and cold water and implementing ES. As a measure of WM performance, this study used a WM 2-back task intersper

The main aim of this thesis is to explain the differences in the resources used for electricity generation in the Czech Republic and Austria from two different perspectives: geographical and institutional. First, geographical conditions and available domestic resources are compared, followed by an analysis of energy policy in both countries. The institutional perspective concentrates on the concep

The cost-sharing exemption provided by Art. 132(1)(f) EVD is a provision with a specific objective. The legal function of the provision is to enable economic operators which carry on exempt activities to emancipate certain internal sources which are directly necessary to carry on the exempt activity to be outsourced, and thus supplied exempt. Under the framework of a cost-sharing arrangement, the

In today's market trademarks are extremely valuable. The proprietors need to be creative in order to prevent infringements of their trademarks. However, the CJEU have ruled that proprietors are not allowed to take measures that limit the competition of the Union without any positive effects for the benefit of consumers. The Commission has proposed amendments to the trademark legislations of th

Myanmar is the scene of one of the longest on going conflicts in the world. Due to recent efforts at reforms and democratisation, Myanmar has come under the light of the media and the ethnic clashes have attracted more attention than they ever have in the past. This dissertation aims to examine the potential for conflict transformation to provide a solution to this intractable violence. Using a co

In this study we examine how Swedish members of Parliament view social groups and their role in changing oppressive norms in a political context. We focus on LGBT issues and the intersection between sexuality and gender/sex. Therefore, we have interviewed nine MP:s who either identify themselves as LGBT and/or work with LGBT issues. All informants’ emphasis the importance of viewing social groups

Barn har ett grundläggande behov av en förälder, en anknytningsperson, som är tillgänglig för barnet och ser till barnets behov (Bowlby, 1994). När föräldern placeras i anstalt kommer relationen mellan barn och föräldrar att ta plats inom en ram av regelverk och lagar utformade av samhället. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka hur barns relation/anknytning till sin förälder påverkas av atChildren have a basic need of a parent, attachment figure, who is accessible to the child and ensure the child's needs (Bowlby, 1994). When a parent is incarcerated, the relationship between children and parents takes place within a framework of rules and laws designed by society. The aim of this study was to examine how children's relationship/attachment to the parent is affected by the f

Rätten till att bestämma över sin egen kropp ses som en mänsklig rättighet över hela världen. Trots det är frågan om aborträtt väldigt polariserad i EU och fri abort ses inte som en självklarhet inom alla medlemsstater. Denna uppsatts har för syfte att undersöka vad det finns för samband mellan liberala abortlagar och ekonomisk tillväxt i rika länder. Den modell som föreslås bygger på paneldata oc

En ekokritisk analys av Eva-Stina Byggmästars triologi om kärlek.

Efterfrågan på sockerrör har de senaste åren ökat i takt med att fler länder strävar efter att minska sitt beroende av fossila bränslen. Som en följd har antalet sockerrörsodlingar kraftigt ökat i Brasilien vilket medfört en oro inför vilka effekter denna omvandling av ursprunglig mark till sockerrörsodling har på lokala hydrologin och klimatet. I det här arbetet har påverkan av sockerrörs expanThe demand for sugarcane has increased in recent years as more countries desire to reduce its dependence of fossil fuels. Therefore, the number of sugarcane plantations has rapidly increased in Brazil which raises concerns for what effect these conversion of original land to sugarcane plantations have on local hydrology and climate. In this thesis, the effects of sugarcane expansion on surface ru