Search for dissertations about: "diaspora identity formation"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words diaspora identity formation.

2. 1. Diasporic Narratives of Sexuality : Identity Formation among Iranian- Swedish Women

   Author : Fataneh Farahani; Lena Gerholm; Beverley Skeggs; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; women’s sexuality; discursive analysis; gender; Islam; Iran; Sweden; veil; virginity; migration; diaspora; agency; hybrid identity; cultural routes; Orientalism; narrative; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the sexuality of Iranian women living in Sweden. Considering sexuality as gendered and socio-culturally constructed, I examine the impact of Iranian Islamic discourses, contemporary socialization and migration on women’s narrations of sexuality. READ MORE

4. 2. From Victim Diaspora to Transborder Citizenship? : Diaspora formation and transnational relations among Kurds in France and Sweden

   Author : Khalid Khayati; Rune Johansson; Carl-Ulrik Schierup; Björn Fryklund; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Diaspora; Kurds; France; suburbs banlieues ; integration; Sweden; immigration; transborder citizenship; assabiyya; transnationalism; social exclusion; discrimination; segregation; ethnography; cyberspace; long-distance nationalism; Diaspora; kurder; Frankrike; förorter banlieues ; integration; Sverige; immigration; gränsöverskridande medborgarskap; assabiyya; transnationalism; social exkludering; diskriminering; segregation; etnografi; cyberspace; långdistans nationalism; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Denna avhandling är en komparativ undersökning av pågående förändringsprocesser bland kurder i Marseillesregionen i Frankrike ochStockholmsregionen i Sverige. I fokus står skiftet från en endimensionell och offerrelaterad kurdisk diasporisk identitet mot en mer sammansatt och aktiv. READ MORE

5. 3. Subject and History in Selected Works by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen

   Author : Erik Falk; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Michael Titlestad; Nahem Yousaf; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Abdulrazak Gurnah; Yvonne Vera; postcolonial literature; entanglement; movement; creative amnesia; Édouard Glissant; Achille Mbembe; David Dabydeen; subject; history; subject formation; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study is concerned with subject formation in the fiction of contemporary postcolonial authors Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yvonne Vera, and David Dabydeen. In contextualised readings of a total of nine works – Gurnah’s Admiring Silence (1996), By the Sea (2001), and Desertion (2005); Vera’s Without a Name (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002); Dabydeen’s Disappearance (1993), Turner (1994), and A Harlot’s Progress (1999) – it explores thematic and formal aspects of the subject’s constitution in the texts. READ MORE

6. 4. Spaces, mobilities and youth biographies in the New Sweden : Studies on education governance and social inclusion and exclusion

   Author : Joakim Lindgren; Christina Segerholm; Héctor Pérez Prieto; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education governance; social exclusion; biography; space; mobility; performativity; Education; Pedagogik; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : The main theme of this thesis is the relation between education governance and social inclusion and exclusion. Overall the thesis is based on a life history approach were biographical interviews with young people are complemented with other contextual data such as survey data, longitudinal statistics, interviews with local politicians and school actors and local reports. READ MORE