Search for dissertations about: "Migration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1636 swedish dissertations containing the word Migration.

  2. 1. The Feeling of Migration Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration

    University dissertation from Linköping : Linköping University Electronic Press

    Author : Sara Ahlstedt; Peo Hansen; Ulrika Dahl; Lena Andersson; [2016]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Migration; queer migration; privileged migration; intimate migration; homonationalism; entanglement; emotions; love; loss; belonging; sexuality; gender identity; race; narrative analysis;

    Abstract : This dissertation analyzes narratives of queer partner migration, that is, a family-tie migration in which one of the partners of a relationship has migrated in order for the partners to be together, and where the partners queer the migration in the sense that they have a non-normative sexuality and/or gender identity. The purpose of the study is to examine how queer partner migrants and their Swedish partners experience the migration process – which continues also once the administrative process has been completed – by analyzing the emotions and feelings that emerge in the process. READ MORE

  4. 2. Governing Global Migration

    University dissertation from Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Lunds universitet

    Author : Sara Kalm; [2008]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration management.; migration policy; Foucault; governmentality; global governmentality; migration politics; migration;

    Abstract : This study explores the global regulative function of migration politics. Its main aim is to rethink migration politics through an engagement with the Foucauldian governmentality perspective, which focuses on the relation between government and thought. READ MORE

  5. 3. Onward Migration The Transnational Trajectories of Iranians Leaving Sweden

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Department of Social and Economic Geography

    Author : Melissa Kelly; Roger Andersson; David Ley; [2013]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Onward migration; Transnationalism; Iranian Diaspora; Mobility and Settlement; European Welfare State; Sweden; London; Highly Educated Migrants; EU mobility; Cosmopolitanism; Class and Culture; Life Course Research; Narrative Research;

    Abstract : Onward migration is an understudied process whereby people leave their country of origin, settle in a second country for a period of time, and then migrate on to a third country. This dissertation explores the transnational trajectories of one specific group of onward migrants. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States

    University dissertation from Göteborgs universitet

    Author : Joseph Trawicki Anderson; Göteborgs universitet.; Gothenburg University.; [2019]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration industry; managed migration; guestworkers; H-2 visa; assemblages; privatization;

    Abstract : This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents to recruiters and law firms, a tremendous number of private actors have become embedded within modern migration programs. READ MORE

  7. 5. Economic Influences on Migration in Sweden

    University dissertation from Göteborgs universitet

    Author : Olle Westerlund; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interregional migration; labor market; household migration; labor mobility; local public sector; mobility grant; tax base; self selection; migration; SOCIAL SCIENCES Business and economics Economics; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Ekonomi Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Paper [I]- Household Migration and the Local Public Sector: Evidence from Sweden, 1981-1984 (co-authored with Michael L. Wyzan), contains an empirical explo­ration of the nexus between variables related to the local public sector budget and migration. READ MORE