Search for dissertations about: "im migration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words im migration.

2. 1. Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women

   Author : Lena Karlsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; autobiography; im migration; United States; diaspora; locational feminism; history; memory; place; home displacement; body; postmodern; subjectivity;

   Abstract : Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America. READ MORE

4. 2. Beyond Transit : Precarious Emplacement and the Wavering Reception of Migrants in the City of Zagreb

   Author : Igor Petričević; Ivana Maček; Erik Olsson; Elissa Helms; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Croatia; Balkan route; transit; migration; emplacement; reception; precarity; affect; gap; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : The territory of the Republic of Croatia has historically been a place of forced and economic migration, mainly consisting of population movements between former Yugoslav states and other neighbouring European countries. Since the 2000s, these borderlands have become sites of continuous transit migration from the Middle East and Africa. READ MORE

5. 3. The welfare mobility dilemma : Transnational strategies and national structuring at crossroads

   Author : Erica Righard; Socialhögskolan; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transnational welfare; The Swedish welfare state; Transnational social spaces; Social policy; Migration; Social policy; Migration;

   Abstract : The dissertation considers welfare with regard to international mobility and immobility. It addresses a tension between two different conceptualisations of the organisation of everyday life with regard to nation-states: one that views everyday life as relatively mobile across nation-state borders and boundaries, and another that treats everyday life as relatively confined within such limits. READ MORE

6. 4. Imagined Independence. Institutional Conditions and Individual Opportunities in European Labour Markets

   Author : Ylva Wallinder; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; perceived employability; labour mobility; highly skilled migration; institutional context; labour market policies; im mobility of capital; imagined independence;

   Abstract : The studies presented in this thesis examine perceived labour market opportunities and conditions for labour market mobility for European employees. The European labour market strategy has created an opportunity-oriented employability-logic that emphasises individual characteristics and individual responsibility for employment. READ MORE

7. 5. Lipase-catalyzed production of structured triacylglycerols

   Author : Ariana Causevic; Bioteknik; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Structured lipids; Lipase; Acyl migration; Immobilization; Lipid analysis; Transesterification; Water activity;

   Abstract : Vegetable oils and fats are major energy sources but also play an essential part in the physical and chemical properties of food products. The current change in the climate is affecting harvest yields, leading to a shortage and increased prices of raw materials that are difficult to replace. READ MORE