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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden family residency.
1. Urbanization and Education : The Effect of Childhood Urban Residency on Educational Attainment
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Does rural to urban migration in developing countries improve the opportunities available to children? And does childhood urban exposure increase educational attainment? Using census data for 14 African countries combined with an age-at-move design, I show that childhood exposure to cities significantly raises primary school completion, school attendance, and literacy rates. The increase in educational attainment is robust to the inclusion of household fixed effects, visible in all subgroups and countries, and particularly large for girls. LÄS MER
2. Social stressors and their association with psychosomatic problems among adolescents : Implications for school social work
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to investigate associations between family-, school- and individual-related social stressors and adolescents’ psychosomatic problems, and which factors might moderate these associations. A cross-sectional study design was employed to collect data and 3764 Swedish adolescents (girls 51. LÄS MER
3. Constructing communities : The establishment and demographic development of sawmill communities in the Sundsvall district, 1850-1890
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the establishment and demographic development of the sawmill communities that emerged in the Sundsvall district during the latter half of the 19th century. The intention is to highlight the importance of the sawmill communities and their resident populations by discussing community construction from a demographic perspective as well as socially and symbolically. LÄS MER
4. Migration and Perceptions of War : Simultaneous Surveys in Countries of Origin and Settlement
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contributes to post-war public opinion research by examining the perceptions of migrants – the gastarbeiter, the refugee, the family reunited after war – and the local population in comparative perspective. Existing surveys of post-war populations are typically conducted in a single country affected by war. LÄS MER
5. Overlooking health acculturation : a grounded theory study illustrating the complexity of intercultural consultation in Swedish primary care
Sammanfattning : Background: Intercultural consultations are perceived as complex by physicians and when asked why, ‘cultural differences’ are often mentioned. With increasing patient diversity in primary care, because of increasing global migration, there is a need to address this. LÄS MER