Search for dissertations about: "migrant families"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the words migrant families.

2. 6. Mobilising care : Ecuadorian families and transnational lives between Ecuador and Spain

   Author : Gladis Aguirre Vidal; Johan Lindquist; Gudrun Dahl; Mark Johnson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; care; migration; transnationalism; moral practice; women; kinship; family; labour; Ecuador; Spain; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the dynamics of care in the transnational lives of Ecuadorian migrant women in Spain. It is concerned with the various forms of care that take shape and are sustained in the workplace, between friends, and among family members in Ecuador and Spain. READ MORE

4. 7. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua

   Author : Cecilia Gustafsson; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Mark Rosenberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; health; health care; migration-health nexus; Nicaragua; remittances; mobile livelihoods; translocal geographies; vulnerability; suffering; coping; undocumentedness; mixed-methods; HDSS; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. READ MORE

5. 8. Diaspora at Home? : Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso-Côte d'Ivoire Transnational Space

   Author : Jesper Bjarnesen; Sten Hagberg; Mats Utas; Joseph Hellweg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wartime mobilities; home; transnational space; diaspora; urban anthropology; West Africa; conflict; return; migration; youth; intergenerational relations; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : In the period 1999-2007, more than half a million Burkinabe returned to Burkina Faso due to the persecution of immigrant labourers in neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire. Ultranationalist debates about the criteria for Ivorian citizenship had intensified during the 1990s and led to the scapegoating of immigrants in a political rhetoric centred on notions of autochthony and xenophobia. READ MORE

6. 9. Making a difference with home visiting : studies of an intervention in multicultural, disadvantaged settings in Sweden

   Author : Kirsi Mekhail Tiitinen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Introduction: Inequalities in health, including child health, occur even in welfare countries like Sweden because of unequal distribution of the social determinants of health. Children’s health is poorer in multicultural and disadvantaged neighborhoods in Stockholm, compared with the Stockholm County average. READ MORE

7. 10. Readiness or resistance? : Newly arrived adult migrants' experiences, meaning making, and learning in Sweden

   Author : Afrah Abdulla; Lisbeth Eriksson; Signild Risenfors; Hans-Erik Hermansson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; adult learning; migration; newly arrived migrants; transformative learning; meaning making; citizenship education; social constructionism; etablering; integration; vuxnas lärande; migration; nyanlända migranter; transformativt lärande; meningsskapande; citizenship education; socialkonstruktionism; etablering; integration; Utbildningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is about newly arrived adult migrants’ meaning making and learning in Swedish society during the two years’ introduction period, after they have received the residence permit. I have specifically studied Arabic speaking adults’ meaning making and learning, by carrying out observations and individual in-depth interviews with 12 migrants. READ MORE