Sökning: "Iraqi Kurdistan"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden Iraqi Kurdistan.
1. Seeking Middle-Classness : University Students in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sammanfattning : Narratives of middle-classness are often missing from Western representations of wartorn regions in the Global South more generally and from the Middle East in particular. This thesis is concerned with stories of desires for ordinary everyday middle-class lives among young adult university students in urban Iraqi Kurdistan. LÄS MER
2. “No Friends but the Mountains” Understanding Population Mobility and Land Dynamics in Iraqi Kurdistan
Sammanfattning : The link between population mobility and environmental change is fundamental for our understanding of how future global environmental changes will affect our societies, and also how the increased mobility will change our role in the Earth system. Climate change has been predicted as a major cause of human migration, both voluntary and forced, through for example increased storm and drought frequency, sea level rise, and reduced fresh water availability. LÄS MER
3. "Utan bok är det ingen riktig undervisning" : En studie av skolkulturella referensramar i sfi
Sammanfattning : Experiences of teachers in SFI, Swedish for (adult) Immigrants, indicate that during their schooling earlier in life, SFI students have developed skills, abilities, values, ideas and expectations about teaching and learning that differ somewhat from the prevailing communicative oriented theory of second language teaching which is emphasized in SFI. In the thesis these aspects are referred to as different school cultural frames of reference. LÄS MER
4. Childhood trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder : A developmental and cross-cultural approach
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to identify child-specific cross-cultural protecting and vulnerability factors regarding traumatic experiences and posttraumatic stress reactions. Children between 6-18 years were interviewed from three different socio-cultural backgrounds. LÄS MER
5. Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan
Sammanfattning : This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. LÄS MER
