Search for dissertations about: "Undocumented migrants"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words Undocumented migrants.

2. 1. Destabilising Citizenship Practices? : Social work and undocumented migrants in Sweden

   Author : Vanna Nordling; Socialhögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social work; undocumented migrants; responsibility; acts of citizenship; migration; Socialt arbete; Papperslösa migranter; Ansvarstagande; Medborgarskapshandlingar; Migration;

   Abstract : Globalisation of the economy, as well as movement of people and increasing securitisation of borders, have challenged and to different degrees destabilised forms of national belonging and solidarity. Such developments produce new borders and boundaries, separate citizens from non-citizens and create hierarchies of “deservingness”. READ MORE

4. 2. Challenging Rightlessness : On Irregular Migrants and the Contestation of Welfare State Demarcation in Sweden

   Author : Amanda Nielsen; Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta; Per Strömblad; Ulf Mörkenstam; Mikael Spång; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; irregular migrants; undocumented migrants; amnesty; regularisation; social rights; welfare state; citizenship; human rights; discourse theory; Sweden; Statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the political struggles that followed after the appearance of irregular migrants in Sweden. The analysis starts from the assumption that the group’s precarious circumstances of living disrupted the understanding of Sweden as an inclusive society and shed light on the limits of the welfare state’s inclusionary ambitions. READ MORE

5. 3. The politics of undocumented migrant childhoods : Agency, rights, vulnerability

   Author : Jacob Lind; Anna Lundberg; Michael Strange; Karl Hanson; Malmö universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Childhood; Undocumented migrants; Agency; Rights; Vulnerability;

   Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate the paradoxical characteristics of political struggles that take place in relation to undocumented migrant childhoods. Drawing on ethnographic research in Birmingham, UK and Malmö, Sweden between 2014 and 2017, I take as my starting point the everyday life experiences of children and families who have experienced living under an immanent risk of deportation. READ MORE

6. 4. Presenting the Absent : An Account of Undocumentedness in Sweden

   Author : Erika Sigvardsdotter; Aida Aragao-Lagergren; Irene Molina; Yasmine Gunaratnam; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Undocumented migration; undocumented persons; feminist methodology; irregular migrants; existential geography; paradoxical space; Hannah Arendt; critical phenomenology; Sweden; political geography; papperslösa; absence and presence; embodied action; public space; alienation; disorientation; digital welfare state; health care; bio-politics; institutional border; embodiment; Sverige; vård för papperslösa; hälso- och sjukvård; migranter; papperslösa; fenomenologi; det offentliga rummet; Hannah Arendt; feministisk metodologi; den digitala välfärdsstaten; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis provides an ethnography and critical phenomenology of undocumentedness in the Swedish context. By attending to the forces and processes that circumscribe the life-worlds of undocumented persons, as well as the phenomenology and essential experiences of their condition, a complex and multi-layered illustration of what undocumentedness is and means is successively presented. READ MORE

7. 5. Illegal Aliens and Health (Care) Wants. The Cases of Sweden and the Netherlands

   Author : Ramin Baghir-Zada; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : illegal aliens; undocumented migrants; irregular migrants; gömda; papperslösa; illegale vreemdelingen; health; Sweden; Netherlands;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with illegal aliens in Sweden and the Netherlands with the main focus on health aspects. The three-fold aim is to investigate emergence of healthcare wants among illegal aliens, how they satisfy these wants (if they do so at all), and to explore the relation between their healthcare wants and health wants. READ MORE