Search for dissertations about: "Migration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1504 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; Linköpings universitet.; Linköpings universitet.; [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; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; [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. Return Migration from Sweden 1968-1996. A Longitudinal Analysis

    University dissertation from Almqvist & Wiksell International

    Author : Martin Klinthäll; Lunds universitet.; Lund University.; [2003]
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANITIES and RELIGION History and philosophy subjects History subjects Economic history; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP Historisk-filosofiska ämnen Historieämnen Ekonomisk historia; Return migration; immigrants; labour migration; transient migration; longitudinal analysis; Sweden; income performance; integration; refugee; immigrant; Migration; labor market; self-selection; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

    Abstract : Popular Abstract in Swedish Avhandlingsarbetets främsta syfte har varit att analysera vilka drivkrafter som ligger bakom beslutet att återvandra, samt att kartlägga återvandringen från Sverige 1968-1996 avseende sammansättning och utvecklingsmönster. Analysen har bedrivits ur ett arbetsmarknadsekonomiskt perspektiv, med fokus på den långsiktiga utvecklingen av tillgång och efterfrågan på arbetskraft. READ MORE

  6. 4. Onward Migration The Transnational Trajectories of Iranians Leaving Sweden

    University dissertation from Uppsala : Department of Social and Economic Geography

    Author : Melissa Kelly; Uppsala universitet.; [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

  7. 5. Economic Influences on Migration in Sweden

    University dissertation from Umeå : Department of Economics, Umeå University

    Author : Olle Westerlund; Umeå universitet.; [1995]
    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