Sökning: "Cultural migration"

Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 156 avhandlingar innehållade orden Cultural migration.

  1. 26. The Immigrant Experience: Changing Employment and Income Patterns in Sweden, 1970 - 1993

    Författare :Kirk Scott; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigrant; Social and economic history; cultural distance; technological change; Ekonomisk och social historia; integration; Sweden; labor market; income; migration; assimilation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the changing patterns of employment and income assimilation among male immigrants to Sweden. In brief, the results of this work are that immigrants have been facing an increasingly difficult time integrating into the Swedish economy. LÄS MER

  3. 27. Diasporic Narratives of Sexuality : Identity Formation among Iranian- Swedish Women

    Författare :Fataneh Farahani; Lena Gerholm; Beverley Skeggs; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; women’s sexuality; discursive analysis; gender; Islam; Iran; Sweden; veil; virginity; migration; diaspora; agency; hybrid identity; cultural routes; Orientalism; narrative; Ethnology; Etnologi; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the sexuality of Iranian women living in Sweden. Considering sexuality as gendered and socio-culturally constructed, I examine the impact of Iranian Islamic discourses, contemporary socialization and migration on women’s narrations of sexuality. LÄS MER

  4. 28. East of Arcadia : Three studies of rural women in northern Sweden and Wisconsin, USA

    Författare :Gun-Marie Frånberg; Ulla Johansson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :rural women; gender mode of living; leisure; work; local mobilization; cultural reproduction; migration;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with three different studies of rural women in northern Sweden and Wisconsin, USA. All three of them aim at identify and elucidate pertinent aspects of women's lives in rural areas. In the first study, The Åsele study, women's work and free time activities are in the focus of investigation. LÄS MER

  5. 29. From Pioneers to Target Group : Social Change, Ethnicity and Memory in a Lithuanian Nuclear Power Plant Community

    Författare :Kristina Sliavaite; Sociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Ignalina nuclear power plant; Deindustrialization; post-socialism; East Central Europe; ethnicity; collective memory; social change; Russian speaking population; decline; modernization; migration; enclave; risk; social insecurity; uncertainty; national insurance; Social problems and welfare; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Sociala problem; migration; risk; social välfärd; socialförsäkring; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focused on an examination of human agency and strategies for responding to rapid social and economic change. Fieldwork was carried out in the community of Visaginas town that was built during the Soviet period in Lithuania. The town is situated next to the Ignalina nuclear power plant. LÄS MER

  7. 30. No peace of mind : The Tibetan diaspora in India

    Författare :Åsa Tiljander Dahlström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; belonging; conflict; diaspora; home; migration; narrative; Tibet; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

    Sammanfattning : The study deals with senses of collective and individual belonging among Tibetans, in relation to 'home', 'homeland' and 'diaspora'; it discusses how conflicting ways of constructing notions of collective identity makes it relevant to see the Tibetan diaspora as a Geography of conflict. The point of departure is that the diaspora is affected by many internal conflicts. LÄS MER