Search for dissertations about: "Kurdish identity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Kurdish identity.

2. 1. Spaces of diasporas : Kurdish identities, experiences of otherness and politics of belonging

   Author : Minoo Alinia; Håkan Thörn; Östen Wahlbeck; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kurdish diaspora; Kurdish identity; home land ; Sweden; Kurdisn community; exile; forced migration; gender; movement for location; experience; Kurdish nationalism; ; Social work; Socialt arbete; Kurdish diaspora; exile; homeland; diasporic community; Kurdish identity; movements for [ocation; Kurdish nationalism; Sweden; forced migration.; Sociology; Sociologi;

   Abstract : Det är doktorsavhandling. Den diskuterar identitetsprocesser inom the kurdiska diasporan. Det är kvalitativ studie baserad huvudsakligen på intervjumaterial. Boken har nyligen blivit översatt och publicerat i Turkiet. READ MORE

4. 2. Nation and Novel : A Study of Persian and Kurdish narrative discourse

   Author : Hashem Ahmadzadeh; Martin van Bruinessen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Iranian languages; Modern Persian literature; modern Kurdish literature; novel; Persian novel; Kurdish novel; nationalism; nation; identity; modernity; Iran; Kurdistan; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : The present work provides a description of the rise of the Persian and Kurdish novel, using as its background specific definitions and theories of the novel and its emergence. Considering the novel as an originally European genre, the study looks at the different prerequisites for its emergence, e.g. READ MORE

5. 3. A stranger in my homeland : The politics of belonging among young people with Kurdish backgrounds in Sweden

   Author : Barzoo Eliassi; Masoud Kamali; Lena Sawyer; Paulina de los Reyes; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; young people with Kurdish backgrounds; postcolonial theory; identity formation; belonging; citizenship; ethnic discrimination; gendered racism; Kurdish nationalism; social work; culturalization; strategies; resistance.; Social work; Socialt arbete; Socialt arbete;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines how young people with Kurdish backgrounds form their identity in Sweden with regards to processes of inclusion and exclusion. It also sheds light on the ways these young people deal with ethnic discrimination and racism. READ MORE

6. 4. Health, migration and quality of life among Kurdish immigrants in Sweden

   Author : Marina Taloyan; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Immigrants; Kurds; ethnicity; self-reported health; psychological distress; psychological well-being; coping strategies; quantitative; qualitative; Sweden;

   Abstract : Background: Although immigrants generally have poorer health and higher psychological distress than the native population, information on health, migration and quality of life among Kurdish immigrants is limited. Aims: Study I, to explore the association between (i) ethnicity and self-reported health (SRH) and (ii) complaints of psychological distress. READ MORE

7. 5. Liberal Intellectuals and Human Rights in the Turkish Public Sphere : Contestation and Pragmatism from the 1990s to the AKP-era

   Author : Andrea Karlsson; Mänskliga rättigheter; []
   Keywords : Turkey; intellectuals; human rights; rights claiming; rights claims; liberal; AKP; secularism; Armenian Genocide; Kurdish conflict; cultural trauma; nationalism; Claude Lefort; democracy; discursive community; nationalism;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines the public interventions, rhetoric, and actions of liberal intellectuals in Turkey between the early 1990sand 2012 regarding the rights of Kurdish and Islamic actors and restrictions on discussing the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Theanalysis of diverse texts published by the interconnected intellectuals – newspaper columns, academic articles, policy papers,reports, and manifestos – and the institutions they used shows how an effective counter-public could take shape in relation to thestate and to dominant publics. READ MORE