Search for dissertations about: "forced migration"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words forced migration.

2. 6. 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. 7. Appearance and photographs of people in flight : A qualitative study of photojournalistic practices in spaces of (forced) migration

   Author : Rebecca Bengtsson Lundin; Miyase Christensen; Anna Roosvall; Myria Georgiou; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Photojournalism studies; photography; critical visual analysis; watching photography; appearance; encounters; photojournalistic practices; space; forced migration; flight; journalistik; Journalism;

   Abstract : This study explores photojournalistic practices by investigating how spaces of (forced) migration, as well as the people and objects moving in and across them, appeared in Swedish newspapers in 2015.Photographs are unique objects of study, as the presence of people in certain spaces becomes directly observable through them. READ MORE

5. 8. Resilience and Religion in a Forced Migration Context : A narrative study of religiousness as a resilience factor in dealing with refugee experiences from a post-migration perspective of Bosnian refugees in Sweden

   Author : Selma Porobic; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; psychology of religion; positive psychology; religious meaning-making; religiousness; resilience; conflict-induced displacement; refugee experiences; forced migration; narrative; refugee-centred research; post-migration perspective; Bosnian war refugees in Sweden;

   Abstract : Until recently studies regarding the pathological aspects of refugee experiences have led the psychology field of forced migration, giving little space to positive factors like the resilience and well-being of individuals faced with these adversities. This doctoral thesis emphasizes good health rather than disease and aims at deepening the understanding of resilience and health as opposed to the dysfunction and disorder paradigm in the context of stressful forced migration experiences. READ MORE

6. 9. Everyday Politics of Forced Migration: Refugees, Host Community Members, and the Local Context

   Author : Ezgi Irgil; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Everyday politics; Forced migration; Host community members; Refugees; Turkey;

   Abstract : This dissertation adds to and broadens the literature on forced migration by explaining how everyday politics influence new social dynamics in cities of arrival. Most of the existing research focuses on the Western context and highlights the cultural differences between the host community members and the refugees who arrive from outside of Europe and North America. READ MORE

7. 10. 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