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Securing access to land around the world is an issue that pervades many development agendas. Often promoted through legal and administrative systems, secure land tenure is used in the battle against poverty and to reduce land based conflict. Conceptualizations of secure tenure tend to differ between international institutions and academia. This thesis aims to understand how the World Bank concept
The Khmer Krom are an indigenous people living in the Mekong delta with a complex historical relation to the majority population. Vietnamese legal climate and treatment of minorities has been shaped by this complex history. Contemporary Vietnam has ratified several significant human rights treaties and voted in favour of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This thes
The aim of this master's thesis is to examine how the architecture and interior design of The International Library in Stockholm affects the library use and the identification of the library as a multi-lingual place. The International Library is a library that is specialized in multi-lingual library services and collections. As a theoretical outset of the study serves the assumption that the i
Uppsatsens syfte har varit att kritiskt granska den svenska debatten kring DNA-analys för asylsökande barns rätt till familjeåterförening i Sverige och därmed se ifall principen om barnets bästa, definierat i svenska rättsakter, efterföljs. Genom den vägledande domen från Migrationsöverdomstolen den 18 januari 2012 fastslogs att DNA-analys kan användas för att styrka biologiskt släktskap med förälThe aim of this thesis has been to do a critical review on the Swedish debate concerning the use of DNA-tests to secure the rights of asylum-seeking children to be reunited with their families and if the principle of the best interests of the child is followed. The 18th of January 2012, in a precedent ruling, the Swedish Migration Court of Appeal concluded that DNA-test could be used to prove biol
This thesis addresses many issues surrounding the simple question: why have trams? With city populations exponentially growing alongside concerns over the environment and the economy, tramways have become a resurging form of sustainable transportation for municipalities. Once an endangered transportation mode, torn up and scrapped to make room for the age of cars, tramways are phoenix artifacts of
År 2000 antog FN:s säkerhetsråd resolution 1325 om kvinnor, fred och säkerhet. Som följd har svenska Försvarsmakten publicerat en handbok för integreringen av ett genderperspektiv, både i verksamheten och i internationella operationer. Handboken utgör undersökningens primärmaterial och beskriver att integreringen av ett genderperspektiv både är ett medel och ett mål. Syftet är således att undersökYear 2000 the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. As a result the Swedish Armed Forces published a handbook for integration of a gender perspective, both in the organization and in their international operations. The handbook is the primary material of this thesis and it describes that the gender perspective is not only a goal in itself, but also a
The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate the role and assignment of public libraries in Sweden and Denmark, with a focus on digital competence and digital participation. This is a comparative study, where a more general intention is to analyze how cultural initiatives on digital competence are motivated and described, and how they are able to contribute to higher digital competence of the
Med sin ökade tillgänglighet på den kommersiella marknaden har eye-tracking blivit ett allmänt tillgängligt system för att analysera ögonrörelser. Detta har öppnat upp för nya möjligheter för utvärdering av usability inom humancomputer interaction, som tidigare har varit dyrt, tidskrävande och ofta utfört baserat på dåligt dokumenterade standarder och mål. Tidigare forskning har visat att eye-tracWith its increased availability on the commercial market, eye-tracking has become a widely accessible system for analysing eye-movements. This has opened up new possibilities in evaluation of usability in human-computer interaction, which has had a history of being expensive, time-consuming and often performed based on poorly documented standards and objectives. Previous research has indicated the
With the events of 2015, commonly referred to as the refugee-situation, a light has been cast on various European Union member states’ handling of asylum seekers. In relation to overall stricter procedures, the Swedish state has proposed a series of restrictive policies to cope with the situation. Of focus is the Swedish government’s effort to regulate the area of unaccompanied minors seeking asyl
Climate change is affecting societies all over the world. Cities are especially vulnerable to climate change due to their particular features such as high proportion of hard surfaces, high interconnectedness between systems and lack of protection from natural ecosystems. The urban planning processes suit well for implementing climate change adaptation (CCA) measures to protect the cities from the
Agritourism practices have been proposed to be one of the economical tools to complement the declining traditional practices in the rural areas. Farms have started to apply the practices of agritourism in order to strengthen the business. Previous research has argued that agritourism creates a beneficial position for farm, as well as for the whole community, by creating job opportunities and attra
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
Cultural heritage plays an important part in society since it shapes our perception of both the past and the present. As such, cultural heritage is here seen as an ideology. Religion, an important part of society as well, can also be regarded as an ideology. But what happens when these ideologies come together? The aim of this Master's thesis is to expose the underlying ideologies that govern
In the fall of year 2000 I went to Palestine to conduct a Minor Field Study. The subject of the study was to investigate the connection between Human Rights and Intellectual Property in this part of the world. By the end of September that year the new intifada broke out and I had to leave Palestine without finishing the study. It must be mentioned that the situation of today does not in any way re
The study inquires into how a specific piece of standardised information, namely the standard for bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), is configured in the practices of lifesaving and bystander CPR-training. Standardisation is commonly thought of as leading to uniformity and order, while practices are dynamic. They evolve and change through repeated enactments. The aim of this thesis is
The legislative landscape of packaging regulation has been experiencing exponential growth, with the introduction of new EPR policies and stricter sustainability requirements. This thesis aims to assess differences in EPR implementation across multiple countries, highlighting its contributions to the European EPR landscape and exploring the management process of EPR compliance within a global food
This thesis examines how urban refugee economic survival is governed within Nairobi, Kenya, through the perceptions of humanitarian-development practitioners. Despite Kenya's Refugee Act 2021 representing one of the region's more progressive frameworks for refugee economic inclusion, the distance between its formal provisions and operational reality remains vast. Fourteen semi-structured i
Suicide rates among Indigenous populations remain disproportionately high in many postcolonial contexts, yet the structural and gendered dimensions of suicide vulnerability remain underexplored. This thesis examines how suicide vulnerability among Indigenous populations can be understood through a decolonial feminist perspective, using Greenland as an empirical case. Specifically, the study analys
