Sökning: "migration and gender"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 125 avhandlingar innehållade orden migration and gender.
1. The Feeling of Migration : Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes narratives of queer partner migration, that is, a family-tie migration in which one of the partners of a relationship has migrated in order for the partners to be together, and where the partners queer the migration in the sense that they have a non-normative sexuality and/or gender identity. The purpose of the study is to examine how queer partner migrants and their Swedish partners experience the migration process – which continues also once the administrative process has been completed – by analyzing the emotions and feelings that emerge in the process. LÄS MER
2. Gendered routes and courses : The socio-spatial mobility of migrants in nineteenth-century Sundsvall, Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines migrants during a time of large-scale socio-economic transformations. These changes were particularly evident in the nineteenth-century town of Sundsvall, Sweden, to which thousands of men and women moved. LÄS MER
3. After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration
Sammanfattning : After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. LÄS MER
4. "I Wanna Be Free" : On the Challenges and Coping Strategies of Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Women's entrepreneurship is often presented as important for creating economic prosperity at the national level and is said to offer freedom, independence, and emancipation for women. The purpose of this study is to explore the conditions of women entrepreneurs who have different backgrounds in Sweden. LÄS MER
5. Bordering through genetics : DNA testing, family reunification and Swedish migration control
Sammanfattning : After people flee to Sweden and are granted asylum, their family members must apply to the Swedish migration authorities in order to be reunited with their loved ones in Sweden. As part of this process, some applicants must prove their relationships through DNA analysis. LÄS MER