Search for dissertations about: "Return migration"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the words Return migration.

  2. 11. Learning and Returning : Return Migration of Swedish Engineers from the United States, 1880-1940

    Author : Per-Olof Grönberg; Lars-Göran Tedebrand; Jonny Hjelm; Walker D. Wyman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; emigration; return migration; engineers; technology transfer; Sweden; United States; industrialisation; electrical industry; steel and iron industry; mining; engineering industry; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis examines different aspects of international migration and return migration among Swedish engineers – particularly to and from the United States between 1880 and 1940. The social, geographical, and educational backgrounds of these engineers and their role in diffusing technological knowledge in Sweden in addition to being a possible source of technical development during the country’s second industrial breakthrough is of particular interest. READ MORE

  4. 12. Borders and Barriers : Studies on Migration and Integration in the Nordic and Mexico-U.S. Settings

    Author : Rosa Weber; Marie Evertsson; Magnus Bygren; Ognjen Obucina; Frank Kalter; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; integration; policy context; free mobility; circular migration; social capital; labour market entry; transnational ties; deportations; remittances; savings; educational achievement; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : International migration engages large numbers of people. Men, women and children break up from their homes and move to another country temporarily or permanently. READ MORE

  5. 13. Go West : East European migrants in Sweden

    Author : Jenny Olofsson; Kerstin Westin; Gunnar Malmberg; Olof Stjernström; Tiit Tammaru; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : East-West migration; international migration; integration; migration motives; social networks; belonging; migration systems; transnational social spaces; Sweden; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : Many people have migrated between East and West Europe in recent decades. The daily life of these migrants is crucial not only for the migrants themselves but also for the development of future migration. READ MORE

  6. 14. 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

  7. 15. Seasons of migrations to the North : a study of biographies and narrative identities in US-Mexican and Swedish-Chilean return movements

    Author : Aina Tollefsen Altamirano; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Return migration; US-Mexican labour migration; Chilean exile in Sweden; desexilio; biographies; circulation; grounded theory; narrative identity;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to examine dynamics and consequences of geographical return movements in two North-South contexts based on migrants' biographies. The thesis examines the consequences of return migration in terms of social mobility, meanings of return and the shaping of identity-place relationships for the subjects of migration. READ MORE