Sökning: "Non-European"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 39 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Non-European.

  1. 6. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts

    Författare :Hanna Hodacs; Catherine Hall; György Novaky; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; European identity; nationalism; Evangelicalism; anti-slavery society; Bible society; mission society; school society; temperance society; tract society.; Historia; History subjects; Historieämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Migration and Mental Health: Epidemiological Studies of Immigrants in Sweden

    Författare :Louise Bayard-Burfield; Samhällsmedicin; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; suicide attempt; self-reported psychiatric illnes; psychotropic drugs; Ethnicity; mortality; Social medicine; Socialmedicin; samhällsmedicin;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract Aims: To analyse the influence of migration status (country of birth/ethnicity), accultura-tion, socio-economic and psychosocial factors on self-reported psychiatric illness, suicide attempt, total mortality and violent death. Methods: Three main data sources were used: suicide attempts in the catchment area of Lund University Hospital (PASIS) during 1991–94; the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (ULF) 1979–1985 (n=39,155) and 1986–93 (n=36,890); the Swedish National Survey of Immigrants (born in Iran, Chile, Turkey, Kurdistan or Poland) from 1996 (n=1,980). LÄS MER

  4. 8. The "strangers" among us : The social construction of identity in adult education

    Författare :Ali Osman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Adult education; ethnicity; culture; multiculturalism; social constructionism.;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to critically examine the labelling practices in the multicultural discourse in two adult education settings. The theoretical perspective used in order to understand and interpret the actors' labelling practices is social constructionism. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Making a living in a new country

    Författare :Mats Hammarstedt; Per-Anders Edin; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Immigrants; second generation immigrants; income assimilation; public transfer system; self-employment; self-employment traditions; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of six self-contained essays focusing on immigrants' maintenance in Sweden. These six essays study immigrants' incomes from different sources. The first three focus on immigrants' incomes from work and on their position in the Swedish public transfer system. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Two tales of viking diversity : A comparative study of the immigrant integration policies of Denmark and Sweden, 1960-2006

    Författare :Mahama Tawat; New Zealand Dunedin University of Otago; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; assimilation; comparative public policy; Denmark; immigration; integration; multiculturalism; public policy; Sweden; Scandinavia;

    Sammanfattning : The perspective of this dissertation is a comparison between the integration policies of Denmark and Sweden between 1960, when there was a shift toward non-Nordic and non-European immigration, and 2006. The two countries’ policies continued to diverge in the cultural integration domain. LÄS MER