Search for dissertations about: "displaced persons"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words displaced persons.

  2. 1. Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile

    Author : Juris Rozītis; Prof. Baiba Kangere; Prof. Vieda Skultans; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bakhtin; chronotope; Displaced Person; émigré; exile; immigrant literature; Latvia; Latvian literature; Latvian history; life-story; narrative; novel; postwar Germany; refugee; setting; space; time; time-space; UNRRA; WWII; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. READ MORE

  4. 2. Postconflict internally displaced persons in Ethiopia : mental distress and quality of life in relation to traumatic life events, coping strategy, social support, and living conditions

    Author : Mesfin Araya; Jayanti Chotai; Gunnar Kullgren; Hans Ågren; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Psychiatry; Ethiopia; postconflict displaced persons; trauma; mental distress; quality of life; coping; social support; Psykiatri; psykiatri; Psychiatry;

    Abstract : Background: There are about 23.7 million internally displaced persons worldwide today, still living in the low-income countries. Ethiopia has for the past four decades been ravaged by war and famine. A lengthy civil war resulted in Eritrea, formerly a part of Ethiopia, becoming an independent state in 1991. READ MORE

  5. 3. Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958

    Author : Lilita Zalkalns; Maija Runcis; Per Bolin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Repatriation; Cold War studies; emigration; Soviet foreign policy; Latvian émigrés; Latvian émigré press; Soviet propaganda; compatriots; KGB; Soviet espionage; displaced persons; political refugees; Soviet Amnesty decree; repatriering; Kalla kriget; emigration; sovjetisk utrikespolitik; lettiska emigranter; lettisk emigrantpress; sovjetisk propaganda; compatriots; KGB; sovjetiskt spionage; displaced persons DPs ; politiska flyktingar; sovjetisk amnestilag; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

    Abstract : This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. READ MORE

  6. 4. Peace by repatriation : Concepts, cases, and conditions

    Author : Patrik Johansson; Cynthia Kite; Erik Melander; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Refugees; displaced persons; repatriation; sustainable peace; necessary; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Peace and conflict research; Freds- och konfliktforskning; statskunskap; political science; freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research;

    Abstract : The focus of this study is the assumption that the return of refugees is a necessary condition for the establishment of sustainable peace after armed conflict. This assumption is often made in the peacebuilding literature as well as by policy makers, but it has rarely been the object of systematic analysis. READ MORE

  7. 5. Afterlives : Jewish and Non-Jewish Polish Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Sweden Documenting Nazi Atrocities, 1945-1946

    Author : Victoria Van Orden Martínez; Malin Thor Tureby; Johanna Dahlin; Tony Kushner; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Polish Research Institute; Holocaust documentation; Postwar justice; Polish-Jewish relations; Survivors of Nazi persecution; Refugees displaced persons; Migrant knowledge; Gender; Agency vulnerability; Transnational histories; Holocaust aftermath studies; Polska källinstitutet; Dokumentation om Förintelsen; Rättsskipning efter kriget; Polsk-judiska relationer. Överlevande; Nazisternas förföljelse; Flyktingar; Fördrivna personer; Migrantkunskap; Könnstillhörighet; Agens; Sårbarhet; Transnationella historier; Studier om Förintelsens efterverkningar;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines how Jewish and non-Jewish Polish survivors of Nazi persecution who came to Sweden in 1945 as ‘repatriates’ and were associated with the Polish Research Institute in Lund, Sweden (PIZ) were engaged in transnational social and political processes during the early postwar period, including documenting Nazi persecution and contributing to postwar humanitarian and justice efforts. PIZ, a transnational initiative that documented the experiences of Polish survivors of Nazi persecution for history and justice in 1945 and 1946, was one of the few such initiatives undertaken by survivors who were refugees in a country not directly involved in the Second World War. READ MORE