Search for dissertations about: "TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL SPACES"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL SPACES.

2. 1. The welfare mobility dilemma : Transnational strategies and national structuring at crossroads

   Author : Erica Righard; Socialhögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational welfare; The Swedish welfare state; Transnational social spaces; Social policy; Migration; Social policy; Migration;

   Abstract : The dissertation considers welfare with regard to international mobility and immobility. It addresses a tension between two different conceptualisations of the organisation of everyday life with regard to nation-states: one that views everyday life as relatively mobile across nation-state borders and boundaries, and another that treats everyday life as relatively confined within such limits. READ MORE

4. 2. Bolivian transnational livelihoods : Impacts of labour migration on wellbeing and farming in Cochabamba

   Author : Johanna Carolina Jokinen; John Östh; Susanne Stenbacka; Aida Aragão-Lagergren; Mariel Cristina Aguilar-Støen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; transnational labour migration; livelihoods approach; remittances; agricultural land use change; Cochabamba; Bolivia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the diverse consequences of transnational labour migration on individual migrants and their household members within out-migration communities in the agricultural valleys of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Using a multiple methods approach and the livelihoods framework, the aim of this work is to shed light on different experiences of migration in terms of objective wellbeing, subjective wellbeing, and changed practices in agricultural production. READ MORE

5. 3. Somali-Swedish Girls - The Construction of Childhood within Local and Transnational Spaces

   Author : Gunnel Mohme; Nihad Bunar; Kerstin von Brömssen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Somali diaspora; Somali-Swedish girls; Childhood sociology; School choice strategies; Muslim-profiled schools; Transnational social spaces; Transnational communities; Social constructionism; Duality of structure; Family Change Theory; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis explores diaspora experiences among Somali-Swedish parents and their daughters where the girls are enrolled in a Muslim-profiled school. The thesis uses migration theory with a transnational perspective, with findings that depart from the traditional view of migrants’ rootedness in a single country. READ MORE

6. 4. In search of seeds: Exploring and classifying sustainability-oriented labs in real-world contexts

   Author : Gavin McCrory; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; reflexive governance; Sustainability transitions; systematic review; laboratories; learning; transdisciplinarity;

   Abstract : In 2015, the necessity of fundamental change was outlined in the universal, transnational agreement, Agenda 2030, under the headline of “transforming our world”. Underlying transformation, integration, and universality, Agenda 2030 calls for guided ethical and moral action in addition to earnest scientific and technological change. READ MORE

7. 5. Appropriation by Coloniality : TNCs, land, hegemony and resistance. The case of Botnia/UPM in Uruguay

   Author : Adrián Groglopo; Simon Lindgren; Aina Tollefsen; Stellan Vinthagen; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational corporations; foreign direct investments; foreignization of land; Latin America; pulp; hegemony; resistance; social movements; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis is to analyse the social consequences of a transnational corporation(TNC) from the global North investing capital in the global South, and the communal processes that evolve in response. The study highlights the TNC’s construction of leadership and domination in the areas in which it settles, as well as the forces of popular resistance to the TNC’s exploitation of the region’s natural resources and the resulting socio-environmental conditions. READ MORE