Search for dissertations about: "Immigration History"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 swedish dissertations containing the words Immigration History.

  2. 1. Railroading and Labor Migration : Class and Ethnicity in Expanding Capitalism in Northern Minnesote, the 1880s to the mid 1920s

    Author : Jimmy Engren; Lars Olsson; Leslie Page Moch; Växjö universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Labor Migration; Immigration History; Swedish-America; Svensk-Amerika; Labor History; Minnesota; Welfare Capitalism; Hegemony; Capitalism; ethnic history; railroad; Socialism; community study; ethnic division of labor; Swedish workers; Swedish immigrants; political economy; Anglo-American; immigrant radicalism; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Abstract : In the 1880s, capitalism as a social and economic system integrated new geographic areas of the American continent. The construction of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (D&IR), financed by a group of Philadelphia investors led by Charlemagne Tower and later owned by the US Steel was part of this emerging political economy based on the exploitation of human and material resources. READ MORE

  4. 2. Coming Full Circle? : Return Migration and the Social Mobility on the Bjäre Peninsula 1860-1930

    Author : Magnus C Persson; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Social structures; Båstad; Social and economic history; Bjäre; Contemporary history circa 1800 to 1914 ; Modern historia ca. 1800-1914 ; Social Mobility; Sweden; United States; History; Return Migration; Returnees; Political Activities; Local History; Lifestyles; Emigration; Immigration; Sociala strukturer; Ekonomisk och social historia; Historia;

    Abstract : One million three hundred thousand people left Sweden for America between 1860 and 1930. In the same period, approximately two hundred thousand people returned to Sweden. "Coming Full Circle?" is an analysis of the fate and local impact of the local returnees on the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 3. Swedes in Chicago : a demographic and social study of the 1846-1880 immigration

    Author : Ulf Beijbom; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia;

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  6. 4. The Swedish Jews and the victims of Nazi terror, 1933–1945

    Author : Pontus Rudberg; Lars M. Andersson; Margaret Hunt; Torkel Jansson; Bernard Wasserstein; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Jewish history; Holocaust studies; Sweden; the Jewish community of Stockholm; refugees; humanitarian aid; Historia; History;

    Abstract : This dissertation aims to provide new knowledge about Jewish responses to the Nazi persecutions and the Holocaust. This has been done through a study of the actions of the Jewish minority in Sweden during the Nazi era. READ MORE

  7. 5. Crash Courses in Belonging : The Emergence and Progression of a National Orientation in Instructional Materials for Adult Immigrant Language Instruction in Sweden and Denmark ca. 1960-2005

    Author : William Wickersham; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; integration; assimilation; immigration; language instruction; policy; nationalism; national identity; belonging; textbooks; A.D. Smith; inclusion; exclusion; nation state;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores representations of Sweden and Denmark and how immigrants’ place in Sweden and Denmark are represented in instructional materials for adult learners in the period ca. 19602005. READ MORE