Search for dissertations about: "geographical migration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the words geographical migration.

  2. 1. Onward Migration : The Transnational Trajectories of Iranians Leaving Sweden

    Author : Melissa Kelly; Roger Andersson; David Ley; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Onward migration; Transnationalism; Iranian Diaspora; Mobility and Settlement; European Welfare State; Sweden; London; Highly Educated Migrants; EU mobility; Cosmopolitanism; Class and Culture; Life Course Research; Narrative Research;

    Abstract : Onward migration is an understudied process whereby people leave their country of origin, settle in a second country for a period of time, and then migrate on to a third country. This dissertation explores the transnational trajectories of one specific group of onward migrants. READ MORE

  4. 2. On Specifying and Estimating Economic Growth as a Spatial Process : Convergence, Inequality, and Migration

    Author : Martin E. Gustafsson; Roger Bivand; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Economic geography; economic growth; regional convergence; migration; spatial statistics; spatially correlated errors; geographical dependence; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Abstract : This thesis includes three self-contained papers. The first paper considers the effect of geographically dependent observations on cross-sectional growth convergence and proposes a way of decomposing the level of technology taking into account geographical variation in growth rates. READ MORE

  5. 3. Moving again : Studies of international return and onward migration

    Author : Andrea Monti; Eleonora Mussino; Karen Haandrikman; Hill Kulu; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Repeat migration; re-migration; return migration; onward migration; register data; survey data; Sweden; Romania; Senegal; sociologisk demografi; Sociological Demography;

    Abstract : Contemporary international migration is characterized by increasingly complex migration patterns, with high shares of re-migration, i.e., return and onward migration after an initial move. READ MORE

  6. 4. Gendered routes and courses : The socio-spatial mobility of migrants in nineteenth-century Sundsvall, Sweden

    Author : Lotta Vikström; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; emancipation; gender; geographical mobility; illegitimacy; industrialization; life-course; migration; nineteenth century; social mobility; women; Sundsvall; Sweden; urbanization;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines migrants during a time of large-scale socio-economic transformations. These changes were particularly evident in the nineteenth-century town of Sundsvall, Sweden, to which thousands of men and women moved. READ MORE

  7. 5. Migration in Prehistory : DNA and stable isotope analyses of Swedish skeletal material

    Author : Anna Linderholm; Kerstin Lidén; Oliver Craig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Migration; ancient DNA; stable isotopes; δ13C; δ15N; δ34S; mtDNA; lactose tolerance; Neolithic; Pitted Ware culture; Funnel Beaker culture; Vikings; Öland; Rössberga; Birka; Björned; Archaeology; Arkeologi; Archaeological Science; laborativ arkeologi;

    Abstract : The main aim of this thesis is to show how scientific methods may be used to look at migration in prehistory on the basis of archaeological material. The individuals examined represent the period 4 000 BC to 1 000 AD and have their geographical origins in various parts of Sweden.Ancient DNA analysis is employed in three cases. READ MORE