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Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden Maija Runcis.
1. Steriliseringar i folkhemmet
Sammanfattning : The chief motive for introducing the sterilization laws of the 1930s and 1940s was to prevent mentally ill and ‘feeble-minded’ individuals from reproducing, mainly for population-policy and social reasons. When the ‘feeble-minded’ were set apart and classed as different or deviant, this was done on medical, racial hygiene and moral grounds and also to some extent on social grounds. LÄS MER
2. Tools of teaching and means of managing : Educational and sociopolitical functions of languages of instruction in elementary schools with Sámi pupils in Sweden, Finland and Norway 1900–1940 in a cross-national perspective
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to recent research on Sámi education from two different angles. First of all, the dissertation pioneers as a cross-national study of the education of a cross-national population previously mainly studied within different nation states. LÄS MER
3. Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. LÄS MER