Sökning: "migration women"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 158 avhandlingar innehållade orden migration women.
1. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context
Sammanfattning : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. 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. Human development and institutional practices : Women, child care and the Mobile Creches
Sammanfattning : This study presents an analysis of the everyday activities of an Indian Nongovernmental Organization (NGO), the Mobile Creches (MC). NGO' s - societal institutions which have grown in prominence in the post-World War II era - are primarily involved in providing services for marginalized sections of different southern nations. LÄS MER
4. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. LÄS MER
5. Immigrants' income and family migration
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three papers studying the economic situation of immigrants in Sweden in terms of wage earnings, labor participation and family internal migration. Paper [I] (http://www.econ.umu. LÄS MER