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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade orden aid workers.

1. 1. Images, Motives, and Challenges for Western Health Workers in Humanitarian Aid

   Författare :Magdalena Bjerneld; Gunilla Lindmark; Beth Maina Ahlberg; Lars Dahlgren; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; humanitarian action; human resource management; relief workers; aid workers; volunteers; images; motives; qualitative research; Public health medicine research areas; Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden; Medicin; Medicine;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis presents how humanitarian aid workers were attracted, motivated, recruited, and prepared for fieldwork, and how they reported their work experience directly from the field and when they returned home. Data were derived from interviews with experienced aid workers, focus group discussions with presumptive aid workers, analysis of letters from aid workers in the field on MSFs homepages in Europe, and from interviews with recruitment officers at some of the main humanitarian organisations. LÄS MER

3. 2. Mutor i det godas tjänst? : Biståndsarbetare i samtal om vardaglig korruption

   Författare :Joakim Thelander; Sociologiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; white-collar crime; self-presentations; rhetoric; reported speech; quotations; petty corruption; narrative; morality; interviews; interaction; impression management; gifts; etiquette; discourse; economic crime; development; corruption; contrasts; constructionism; bribes; bribery; boundary-work; anticorruption; accounts; aid work; Criminology; Sociology; Social psychology; Kriminologi; Sociologi; Socialpsykologi;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, corruption and bribery are investigated as social and moral, rather than economic, phenomena. The analysis concentrates on the ways in which Swedish and Danish aid workers describe their experiences of everyday or 'petty' corruption. LÄS MER

4. 3. Governing Refugees through Gender Equality : Care, Control, Emancipation

   Författare :Elisabeth Olivius; Christine Hudson; Malin Eklund Wimelius; Elisabeth Prügl; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Global governance; feminism; gender equality; refugees; refugee camps; humanitarian aid; Bangladesh; Thailand; governmentality; postcolonial feminist theory; freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research;

   Sammanfattning : In recent decades, international feminist activism and research has had significant success in pushing gender issues onto the international agenda and into global governance institutions and processes. The goal of gender equality is now widely accepted and codified in international legal instruments. LÄS MER

5. 4. Essays on Public Finance : Retirement Behavior and Disaster Relief

   Författare :Thomas Eisensee; Fabrizio Zilibotti; Kjetil Storesletten; Xavier Mateos-Planas; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Computable General Equilibrium; Retirement; Fiscal Policy; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Mass Media; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on Public Finance.“News Droughts, News Floods and U.S. Disaster Relief” studies the mass media's influence on the U. LÄS MER

7. 5. Livet äger rum : Försörjning och platstagande i norrländska sågverkssamhällen

   Författare :Håkan Berglund-Lake; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethnology; integrity; pattern of subsistence; place making. sawmill workers; Etnologi; Ethnology; Etnologi; Etnologi; Ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with the people who settled permanently near the sawmills of Västernorrland during the expansion of the sawmill industry in the latter half of the 19th century. The basis of, and a prerequisite for this resettlement and the life thus built up was the permanent employment and wages earned by the men at the sawmills. LÄS MER