Search for dissertations about: "youth integration"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words youth integration.

2. 1. The Shadows of the Past : A Study of Life-World and Identity of Serbian Youth after the Milošević Regime

   Author : Jelena Spasenić; Hugh Beach; Lars Hagborg; Kjell Magnusson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; phenomenology; anthropology; socialization; life-world; identity; self; schema; memory; youth; school; Serbia; Yugoslavia; Milošević; family; society; post-war situation; popular culture; urban-rural; modern-traditional; social change; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : The thesis explores the consequences of the Milošević regime and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s for young people in Serbia. It deals with the conditions under which recent history makes itself relevant in the lives of two high-school classes of eighteen- and nineteen-year-olds. READ MORE

4. 2. Understanding the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin : Longitudinal investigations of inter-origin friendship formation

   Author : Olov Aronson; Disa Bergnéhr; Arne Gerdner; Sofia Enell; Michael Wells; Emma Sorbring; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social integration; friendship; adolescence; longitudinal; Sweden; LoRDIA; Resettlement Strategies in Families;

   Abstract : The present dissertation aims to understand some of the opportunities for, and influences on, the social integration of adolescents of foreign origin in Sweden. Informed by previous research, the dissertation suggests that successful social integration involves friendship formation between peers of similar origins (intra-origin friendship formation) as well as friendship formation between peers of different origins (inter-origin friendship formation). READ MORE

5. 3. Boundaries of displacement : Belonging and Return among Forcibly Displaced Young Georgians from Abkhazia

   Author : Minna Lundgren; Roine Johansson; Anna Olofsson; Barzoo Eliassi; Tone Bringa; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Georgia; Abkhazia; Caucasus; IDP; internal displacement; return; forced displacement; youth; border; riskscapes; uncertainty;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the implications of borders and boundaries for how forcibly displaced young Georgians from Abkhazia understand issues of belonging and return. My theoretical framework draws from theories on home and belonging as well as theories on border and boundary making, and locates them in geographies of uncertainty – or riskscapes – areas characterized by conflict and/or inequality. READ MORE

6. 4. From a place without speech : negotiations of othering among unaccompanied female minors in Sweden

   Author : Elin Ekström; Monika Wilińska; Pia H. Bülow; Ulrika Börjesson; Ann-Christine Andersson; Marcus Herz; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; unaccompanied minors; migration; gender; youth;

   Abstract : The study presented in this thesis focuses on unaccompanied female minors and their experiences as newly arrived migrants in Sweden. As a group, unaccompanied female minors have until recently been rather invisible in both academic research and media. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration

   Author : Kerem Tezic; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Second-generation immigrants; educational attainments; early labour-market experiences; competing-risks; graduate employment; calibration; first-generation immigrants; sample-selection in panel data; random effects.;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the Longitudinal Individual Data-set (LINDA), which gave us the possibility to examine changes over time, from ages 16-17 to 21-22 and to compare second-generation immigrants with a randomly-chosen matched control-group of native Swedes. READ MORE