Sökning: "Swedish immigrants"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 295 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish immigrants.

  1. 1. Diet and Metabolic Risk Factors in Immigrant Women from the Middle East and Swedish-Born Women : A Cross-Sectional Study of Women from Iran, Turkey and Sweden

    Författare :Achraf Daryani; Bengt Vessby; Brita karlström; Per Wändell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Caring sciences; cardiovascular factors; metabolic risk factors; immigrants; Iranian; Turkish; Swedish; Middle East; dietary intake; underreporting; dietary fat; fat sources; antioxidant intake; oxidative stress; inflammation; C-reactive protein; isoprostanes; Vårdvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The increasing number of immigrants in Sweden during the past decades has brought the health of different ethnic groups into focus. Many groups of immigrants in Sweden have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD) than a Swedish reference group. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Railroading and Labor Migration : Class and Ethnicity in Expanding Capitalism in Northern Minnesote, the 1880s to the mid 1920s

    Författare :Jimmy Engren; Lars Olsson; Leslie Page Moch; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Labor Migration; Immigration History; Swedish-America; Svensk-Amerika; Labor History; Minnesota; Welfare Capitalism; Hegemony; Capitalism; ethnic history; railroad; Socialism; community study; ethnic division of labor; Swedish workers; Swedish immigrants; political economy; Anglo-American; immigrant radicalism; History; Historia; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : In the 1880s, capitalism as a social and economic system integrated new geographic areas of the American continent. The construction of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (D&IR), financed by a group of Philadelphia investors led by Charlemagne Tower and later owned by the US Steel was part of this emerging political economy based on the exploitation of human and material resources. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Andraspråkstalare i arbete : En språkvetenskaplig studie av kommunikation vid ett svenskt storföretag

    Författare :Marie Nelson; Britt-Louise Gunnarsson; Ulla Börestam; Catrin Norrby; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; workplace interaction; immigrants; second language speakers; interactional sociolinguistics; ethnography; communicative network; relational talk; professional writing; social integration; Swedish language; Svenska språket; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the everyday communication of second language speakers in a major Swedish company. On the basis of eighteen interviews with permanently employed industrial and office workers, who came to Sweden as adults from countries outside the Nordic region where non-Germanic languages are spoken, five individuals were chosen for observation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Job Search Strategies and Wage Effects for Immigrants

    Författare :Åsa Olli Segendorf; Eskil Wadensjö; Dan-Olof Rooth; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Job search methods; immigrants; social networks; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Recruiting Through Networks - Wage Premiums and Rewards to RecommendersThis paper examines the firm's use of recommenders in its recruiting process. In the model, recommenders possess personal information about the worker's ability and about the workplace. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Law and Social Exclusion : The functions and dysfunctions of the Swedish legal system in light of overindebtedness among immigrants

    Författare :Davor Vuleta; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Debt collection; Debtor; Economic security; Financial exclusion; Immigrants; Law; Legal cultrue; Manifest and latent; Middle range theory; Migration; Mixed methods; Over-indebtedness; Register data; Robert Merton; Social exclusion; Socio-economic status; Sociology of law; Sweden; Swedish Enforcement Authority; Functions and dysfunctions;

    Sammanfattning : In terms of its total population, Sweden is one of the countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the EU. Several factors are critical in integrating immigrants, especially their economic security in a new country. This thesis examines the relationship between law enforcement and economic security for over- indebted immigrants. LÄS MER