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This thesis sets the goal to contribute to the field of diaspora studies from media and communication studies perspective by focusing on the neglected migrant group of highly educated refugees and their media use. This thesis aims to explore how highly educated refugees utilize digital media in their everyday life after their migration. It also investigates how digital media use enhances and under
Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize an
The aim of this study is to better understand the goals and tasks of municipal activation workers, inquire into their perceived ability to establish their clients on the labor market, and examine their handling of hard-to-activate clients. The data was gathered through individual interviews with six activation workers who were all part of the same municipality. Four of them worked with youths and
Immigrant entrepreneurs who get involved in the restaurant industry face different challenges to promote their restaurants and attract new customers. However, immigrant entrepreneurs’ cultural capital is an important asset that can be exploited to overcome these challenges. This paper seeks to identify and explore what is the cultural capital that immigrant entrepreneurs use as marketing strategie
I en värld där klimathot och resursbrist har växt fram till ett allt större problem på världsledarnas agenda har vikten av hållbar utveckling identifierats som en nyckelfråga i vägen mot en bättre framtid. En metod för detta är industriell symbios, som innebär att olika företag och organisationer gemensamt utnyttjar energi, nyttigheter, material eller service, för att på ett innovativt sätt skapa In a world where climate change and resource scarcity have grown to some of the main issues on the world leaders’ agenda the importance of sustainable development has been identified as a key challenge in the path towards a better future. One method for this is industrial symbiosis, where different entities collaborate over energy, utilities, materials or services to create value and lower cost an
Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka om nuvarande svensk lag gällande bristande tillgänglighet, är tillräcklig eller otillräcklig för att öka inkluderingen av individer med funktionsnedsättning i samhället. Regeringens proposition gällande lagen om Bristande tillgänglighet som form av diskriminering har utgjort arbetets primärmaterial. Vidare har litteratur om teoretiska perspektiv på funktionshinder
Näthat är någonting nytt, men samtidigt inte. Det har funnits en tid men samhället har bara inte vetat vad det varit eller inneburit. Men ämnet har blivit väldigt aktuellt, och nämns nog i tidningar och på sociala medier i alla fall ett par gånger i månaden. Detta ämne borde egentligen ha varit aktuellt för flera år sedan. Då kanske lagstiftningen och rättssystemet hade hängt med i samma takt som
Author: Dragana Pribak Title: Longing for home - Four former Yugoslav immigrants' views on return migration (translated title) Assessor: Lars Harrysson The purpose of this study was to get a greater insight and understanding into how these people have been integrated into Swedish society and also to study which major factors played and made that most of these people did not return home again.
This essay discusses immigrants? prospects of constructing an identity in a multicultural society like Sweden. The discussion is primarily theoretical but offers a few empirical examples to demonstrate its relevance. Furthermore, the ontological standpoint of this essay draws on an understanding of the world and our knowledge as constructed which implies that identities are also constructed. The p
Grundläggande värderingar för Europeiska unionen är frihet, jämlikhet, demokrati, rättstatsprincipen och respekt för de mänskliga rättigheterna, detta stadgas i artikel 2 Europeiska unionens fördrag. Syftet med denna uppsats är att redogöra för Europeiska unionens sanktionssystem vad beträffande medlemsländer som bryter mot mänskliga rättigheter. När ett land ansöker om medlemskap till Europeiska Fundamental values of the European Union are freedom, equality, democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights, this is enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union. The purpose of this paper is to present the sanction system of the European Union as regarding member countries violations of human rights. When a country is applying for a membership to the European Union, a range
"The transsexuals are few and invisible" - Depictions of transsexualism, gender reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media The aim of this study is to, based on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, analyze constructions of transsexualism, sex reassignment and sterilizations in Swedish media in forms of editorials in newspapers. This study's theoretical framework and
Background and aim: As an increasing number of people are living and ageing with the consequences ofstroke, the rehabilitation and support provided for this group needs to have a long-term perspective. Moreover,to prevent long-term activity limitations and participation restrictions after stroke, increased knowledge is neededregarding how engagement in different types of activities develops beyond
The aim of this study was to specify the latent construct structure of the Friends and Family Interview (FFI: Steele & Steele, 2005) based on its dimensional scale coding protocol. The FFI is a semi-structured interview measuring attachment in middle childhood. We analyzed data from 341 FFI interviews with children aged 7–12 years, recruited in the Scandinavian Öresund Region. Exploratory Fact
This chapter presents and analyses children’s narratives about being summoned to, arriving at and visiting a Barnahus. The children felt welcomed as guests, but hard work awaited them in the police investigative interview in front of frightening cameras and with strangers watching in an adjacent room. The children found that they needed more information about what was going on and why. From the ch
Pesticide use is increasing in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and many smallholders purchase, handle, and apply toxic pesticides with inadequate equipment, knowledge, and technical support. Through the frame of environmental justice, this literature-based study analyzes characteristics, impacts, and drivers of smallholder pesticide use in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to Uganda
This study explored the struggles of countertransference (i.e., psychotherapist’s feelings and reactions) through interviews with 20 mental health therapists. Thematic analysis resulted in four themes: (1) personal vulnerability activated in the therapeutic relationship, (2) difficult-to-endure or obstructive feelings (e.g., aversion or burdening discomfort), (3) secondary distressing reactions el
Purpose: This study aims to investigate how sustainability has been incorporated – or mainstreamed - in a school at one university through techniques of responsibilization and accountabilization. Design/methodology/approach: Inspired by the extended case study methodology, the authors participated, observed and analyzed two audit-inspired processes, whose aims included ensuring that sustainability
How might a liberal democratic community best regulate human genetic engineering? Relevant debates widely deploy the usually undefined term “human dignity.” Its indeterminacy in meaning and use renders it useless as a guiding principle. In this article, I reject the human genome as somehow invested with a moral status, a position I call “genetic essentialism.” I explain why a critique of genetic e
Det övergripande syftet med denna studie, som ingick i forskningsprojektet Skånska hem: mottagande, etablering eller exkludering – hemlöshetspolitik och strategier för flyktingars bosättning, var att undersöka och beskriva Svalövs kommuns strategier för mottagande och bosättning av flyktingar och hemlösa kommuninvånare under åren 2018 till och med 2022. Forskningsprojektet ska ses mot bakgrund av
ABSTRACT The aim of this essay is to analyze and discuss the razors? and tweezers? roles and dualism between them in the Nordic Bronze Age societies. This paper is an attempt to investigate what these little things can tell us about the people that were buried with them. For this purpose I have examined material of burial that consist of finds of razors respective tweezers and their connection wi
