Sökning: "acts of citizenship"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden acts of citizenship.
1. Creating social citizenship : Young people, ethnicity and participation in a Swedish local context
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns social participation in the Swedish welfare state among young people from ethnic minorities, the opportunities open to them and the constraints they face. It focuses on the interplay between structural social conditions related to social exclusion and subjective experiences in everyday life among these young people. LÄS MER
2. Destabilising Citizenship Practices? : Social work and undocumented migrants in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Globalisation of the economy, as well as movement of people and increasing securitisation of borders, have challenged and to different degrees destabilised forms of national belonging and solidarity. Such developments produce new borders and boundaries, separate citizens from non-citizens and create hierarchies of “deservingness”. LÄS MER
3. Medborgarskap och diskriminering : Östjudar och andra invandrare i Sverige 1860–1920
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to study whether discrimination arose in connection with applications for naturalisation in Sweden between 1860 and 1920.The number of naturalisation applications during the period studied was 11,242, of which 1,774 (16%) were from Eastern Jews, here defined as Jewish subjects of the Russian Tsar, and from the states that emerged after the fall of the Russian Empire. LÄS MER
4. Going Above and Beyond : An Assessment of Paying it Forward Behaviour in the B2B Marketing Context
Sammanfattning : Helping behavior and other acts of kindness are important in the business context as they lead to numerous positive outcomes for organizations and individuals and they can help form the foundation needed for meeting organizational goals. Acts of kindness can have a multiplying effect which can be achieved by kindness being paid back to the individual who conducted the act of kindness or paid forward to others. LÄS MER
5. Design-Politics : An Inquiry into Passports, Camps and Borders
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an interrogation of the contemporary politics of movement and more specifically, migration politics from the perspective of the agency of design and designing. At the core of this thesis lies a series of arguments which invite design researchers and migration scholars to rethink the ways they work with their practices: that states, in order to make effective their abstract notions of borders, nations, citizenship, legal protection and rights are in dire need of what this thesis coins as material articulations. LÄS MER