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  1. 1. Essays on Social Norms and Economic Change

    Författare :Karl Mcshane; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social Norms; Gender norms; Executive recruitment; Generalized trust; Immigration; business incubators; Entrepreneurship; Social norms; gender norms; entrepreneurship; business incubators; immigration; generalized trust; social trust;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of three empirical essays concerning social norms and their effect on economic outcomes. Each essays discusses a seperate subject. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Alcohol Use and Mental Health in Middle-aged Women. Women´s Health in Lund Area, a Swedish Population-based Study

    Författare :Jenny Rundberg; Lund Psykiatri; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; population; alcohol use; drinking patterns; symptoms; mental health; middle-aged; Women;

    Sammanfattning : Alcohol use and mental health of the general population is of public health concern. Few population-based studies have focused on middle-aged women. The aim of this thesis was to increase knowledge about middle-aged women’s alcohol consumption, drinking patterns, mental symptoms and use of psychotropic drugs. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Svea folk i Babels land : Svensk identitet i Kanada under 1900-talets första hälft

    Författare :Carina Rönnqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Swedish immigrants; cultural boundaries; ethnicity; nationalism; identity; Canadian immigration history; gender history; language shift; ethnic press; religion; secular societies; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light upon the construction of identity within the Swedish- Canadian immigrant group during the first half of the 20th century. The most important sources of ethnic and nationalistic influences this study scrutinizes are the homeland Sweden, Swedish-America, Scandinavian-Canada and the Canadian host society. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Likhetens rum - olikhetens praktik : om produktion av integration i fyra svenska kommuner

    Författare :Lena Grip; Gunnel Forsberg; Lotta Braunerhielm; Tora Friberg; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; integration; politics; Lefebvre; immigrant women; production of space; integration; integrationspolitik; invandrade kvinnor; Lefebvre; produktion av rum; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Kulturgeografi; Human Geography;

    Sammanfattning : What is integration? How is integration achieved and to whom is it directed? And how is integration implemented in respect to immigrant women? This thesis examines ideas concerning integration and the policy and practice of integration on the basis of a set of policies which include Swedish society as “multicultural”, with the focus on immigrant women. Integration as a political project exists at a national level in Sweden but also in most of Sweden’s municipalities. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Integration på egen hand : En studie av invandrade kvinnoföretagare i Sverige

    Författare :Saeid Abbasian; Ali Najib; Wuokko Knocke; Sven Nordlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Integration; Ethnicity; Gender; Self-Entrepreneurship; Immigrant women s self-entrepreneurship; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Female entrepreneurship; Working life; Immigration; Labour market; Satisfaction; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this thesis is to discover and analyse the motives that make immigrant women start their own businesses in Sweden and to investigate whether this is a way to achieve integration in working life. The empirical material consists of two types of interviews. LÄS MER