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Found 5 swedish dissertations matching the above criteria.

  2. 1. Spaces of diasporas : Kurdish identities, experiences of otherness and politics of belonging

    Author : Minoo Alinia; Håkan Thörn; Östen Wahlbeck; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kurdish diaspora; Kurdish identity; home land ; Sweden; Kurdisn community; exile; forced migration; gender; movement for location; experience; Kurdish nationalism; ; Social work; Socialt arbete; Kurdish diaspora; exile; homeland; diasporic community; Kurdish identity; movements for [ocation; Kurdish nationalism; Sweden; forced migration.; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : Det är doktorsavhandling. Den diskuterar identitetsprocesser inom the kurdiska diasporan. Det är kvalitativ studie baserad huvudsakligen på intervjumaterial. Boken har nyligen blivit översatt och publicerat i Turkiet. READ MORE

  4. 2. Neither Here - Nor There : An Anthropological Study of Gujarati Hindu Women in the diaspora

    Author : Elizabeth Åsa Hole; Hugh Beach; Eleanor Nesbitt; Frank Korom; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; Anthropology; Diaspora; Gujaratis; Uganda Asians; Hinduism; Women; Agency; Kulturantropologi; Cultural anthropology; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : During the 1950s, a wave of migrants left India to find work in the West. Many never returned, but instead settled in the West. There were also many Asians who left to live in East African countries. In the beginning of the 1970s, Idi Amin decided to finalise the Africanisation of Uganda. READ MORE

  5. 3. Caring (in) Diaspora: Aging and Caring Experiences of Older Turkish Migrants in a Swedish Context

    Author : Öncel Naldemirci; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Care; Aging; Diaspora; Turkish migration; Emotions; Family;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates Turkish migrants’ aging experiences and their understandings about care by concentrating on the accounts of a group of first-generation Turkish immigrants who settled in Sweden in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The aim is to explore how older immigrants’ lives have been marked by the experience of migration and re-establishment in another country, how the impact of having once lost caring relations affected their decisions and desires about care in old age. READ MORE

  6. 4. Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in

    Author : Lena S. Sawyer; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social sciences; Black diaspora; Cultural politics; Belonging; Stockholm; Sweden; Racialization;

    Abstract : This dissertation looks at how racial discourses are used in contemporary Swedes' practices of belonging, their sense of their incorporation into Swedish society. I analyze verbal accounts and narratives of people "of African ancestry" living in Stockholm and those positioned in the normative and racially-unmarked category, "Swede. READ MORE

  7. 5. Black and Swedish : racialization and the cultural politics of belonging in Stockholm, Sweden

    Author : Lena Sawyer; Mittuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Race; Belonging; Sweden; Cultural Politics; Ethnology; Etnologi;

    Abstract : Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm March 2000 Lena S. Sawyer, B.A., MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY M. READ MORE