Search for dissertations about: "a study of out of school youth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words a study of out of school youth.

2. 1. The (re)construction of home : Unaccompanied children’s and youth’s transition out of care

   Author : Åsa Söderqvist; Yvonne Sjöblom; Pia Bülow; Carin Björngren Cuadra; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unacccompanied; children; youth; culture; ethnicty; transitions; out-of-home care; home;

   Abstract : This dissertation focuses on how perceptions of ethnicity and culture become meaningful in relation to the transition from care into independent living, studied from unaccompanied youths’, professionals’, and a methodological perspective. The findings from interviews with unaccompanied youth with experience of leaving care showed that thoughts about their ethnic minority background are constantly present in the young men’s lives. READ MORE

4. 2. From a place without speech : negotiations of othering among unaccompanied female minors in Sweden

   Author : Elin Ekström; Monika Wilińska; Pia H. Bülow; Ulrika Börjesson; Ann-Christine Andersson; Marcus Herz; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unaccompanied minors; migration; gender; youth;

   Abstract : The study presented in this thesis focuses on unaccompanied female minors and their experiences as newly arrived migrants in Sweden. As a group, unaccompanied female minors have until recently been rather invisible in both academic research and media. READ MORE

5. 3. Out-of-Home Care and Educational Outcomes : Prevalence, Patterns and Consequences

   Author : Marie Berlin; Gunnar Andersson; Lars Brännström; Anna Rotkirch; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; out-of-home care; foster care; foster parents; school performance; educational outcomes; intergenerational transmission; Sweden; Nordic countries; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine educational stratification in the context of out-of-home care (OHC; foster family care, residential care) and to place one of society’s most vulnerable groups in the fields of social stratification and family complexity research. About 5% of the Swedish population experience OHC during childhood or adolescence. READ MORE

6. 4. Political corrections : Language activism and regimentation among high school youth

   Author : Henning Årman; Rickard Jonsson; Tommaso Milani; Sari Pietikäinen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Youth studies; language activism; school ethnography; language policy; linguistic landscapes; language socialization linguistic anthropology; affect; language ideology; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with senior high school students’ language activism and their efforts to navigate linguistic norms and language ideological geographies in contemporary Sweden. Guided by the traditions of child and youth studies (e.g., James & Prout, 1990) and linguistic anthropology (e. READ MORE

7. 5. Lived transitions : experiences of learning and inclusion among newly arrived students

   Author : Jenny Nilsson Folke; Nihad Bunar; Karin Aronsson; Dympna Devine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; lived transition; newly arrived students; post-migration ecology; lived school career; imagined school career; inclusion exclusion; in line out of line; in place out of place; embodied experiences; temporality; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis explores how newly arrived students experience conditions for learning and inclusion in their lived transitions within the Swedish school system. The thesis deploys an ethnographic approach combining interviews with participant observation. READ MORE