Search for dissertations about: "Ethnic Minorities"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words Ethnic Minorities.

  2. 16. Negotiating who the ’Other’ is : Care providers talk about caring for dying patients with migrant backgrounds

    Author : Pernilla Ågård; Sandra Torres; Hannah Bradby; Jonas Stier; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Professional care providers; patients with migrant backgrounds; end-of-life care; understandings; negotiations; talk; categorization; ethnic Otherness ; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Most research at the intersection of ethno-cultural minority patients and end-of-life care has been preoccupied with two types of problems: the underrepresentation of patients with an ethno-cultural minority background in end-of-life care and the challenges that these patients are believed to pose to the deliverance of high-quality and user-friendly care. When scholars have focused on these issues, they have tended to assume that it is ethno-cultural diversity as such that poses these problems. READ MORE

  4. 17. Life in a twilight landscape : Exploring the intersection of ethnic and sexual minority identities in sweden

    Author : Emelie Miller; Ingrid Zakrisson; Elisabet Wasteson; Anna Malmquist; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Historically speaking, sexual and ethnic minorities have been dreadfully treated by society at large, the legal system and the scientific world. Even today, homosexuality is associated with life-threatening risks in many countries, which is one migration motivator for sexual minorities. READ MORE

  5. 18. Between Modern Schooling and Cultural Heritage : Education and Ethnicity in Southwest China

    Author : Wei Wang; Pedagogik; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Modern schooling; Cultural heritage; Ethnic minority education; Teacher; Teacher education; Teacher educator; Multicultural education; Internal Orientalism; Xishuangbanna 西双版纳 ; Qianjiang 黔江 ; Dai 傣族 ; Tujia 土家族 ; China;

    Abstract : Since the late 1970s, China has experienced remarkable socioeconomic development. The trend towards marketisation and modernisation overturned culturally-rooted lifestyles, and more and more ethnic minorities in China have started to regard their traditional cultures as irrelevant to their livelihoods and future and chosen to move away from them. READ MORE

  6. 19. Struggling Against Exclusion : Adibasi in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

    Author : Mashiur Rahman; Sociologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social exclusion; national minority; cohesion; multiculturalism; forced migration and displacement; ethnic conflict management; social policy; poverty; ethnicity; nationalism;

    Abstract : This study provides an overview of social policy and poverty among ethnic minorities (Adibasi)in Bangladesh,with a special focus on the Chakma people belonging to the Sonai and Mayni localities,situated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHT).The main argument in this thesis concerns their struggle against exclusion which is an indispensable part of policy studies. READ MORE

  7. 20. We belong to them : Narratives of belonging, homeland and nationhood in territorial and non territorial minority settings

    Author : Tünde Puskás; Rune Johansson; Yngve Lithman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Everyday ethnicity; long-distance nationalism; Hungarian nation politics; ethnic and national identifications; Hungarians in Slovakia; Hungarians in Sweden; homeland narratives; language ideologies and language dilemmas; Vardagsetnicitet; distansnationalism; ungersk nationspolitik; etniska och nationella identifikationer; ungrare i Slovakien; ungrare i Sverige; hemlandsberättelser; språkideologier och språkdilemman; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores what happens with ethnic and national identifications buiit on the same ethnocultural grounds, but under different socio-economic circumstances. Territorial and nonterritorial minorities have traditionally been considered non-comparable because it was assumed that groups organized on different grounds were distinctively separate phenomena. READ MORE