Essays about: "Identity intersections"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words Identity intersections.

  1. 1. Keeping Up with the Transition: Sex for Compensation and Women with Asylum and Transgender Experiences in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Ines Anttila; [2023]
    Keywords : sex for compensation; transgender; asylum; gender affirmation; waiting; strategy; tactic.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the practice of sex for compensation performed by women with transgender and asylum experiences living in Sweden. It aims to explore the complexities of sex for compensation by positioning this practice as both strategy and a tactic for obtaining income used for gender affirmation, considering that gender-affirmative healthcare is not available for asylum seekers in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. To Identify With a Memory : A Case Study on Nubian Post-Displacement Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Egypt

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Yahia Saleh; [2023]
    Keywords : Nubia; Ethnic identity; Collective memory; Diaspora; Egypt;

    Abstract : More than one generation of Nubians have been living dispersed in various locations in Egypt. Decades after the latest 1964 displacement and the memory of the lost homeland does not seem to fade. READ MORE

  4. 3. I am white, therefore I am : A phenomenological study of whiteness as experienced by white women in relation to Others within a travel context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Valerie van Schaik; [2022]
    Keywords : Autoethnography; Bodies; Critical Whiteness studies; Female; Feminist studies; Gender; Identity; Intersectionality; Norm; Othering; Phenomenology; Privilege; Race; Raciality; Racialization; Spatiality; Situated knowledge; Transnational; Travel; White; Whiteness; White Privilege; Woman; Womanhood.;

    Abstract : This thesis provides a complex understanding of the phenomenological experience of whiteness as a racial category. Based on theories of critical whiteness studies, intersectionality and (white) phenomenology, I conducted five semi-structured interviews with five white women about their understandings of their whiteness within a context of transnational travel. READ MORE

  5. 4. "We are humans, not animals" Obstetric Violence in Kosovo: An Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Responses to Obstetric Violence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Diana Morina; [2022]
    Keywords : Obstetric Violence; Kosovo; Agency; Intersectionality; Commodification; Informality; Strategies; Tactics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores different modalities of agency that birthing women in Kosovo express when met with a high threat of obstetric violence and structural constraints. Specifically, this study identifies the strategies and tactics women employ during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum to avoid and minimise the risk of obstetric violence in public and private health settings. READ MORE

  6. 5. Can I bring my whole self to my workplace? : A qualitative study of immigrant Muslim women’s workplace experiences in Sweden

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Rawah Zeidan; [2021]
    Keywords : Immigrant Muslim women; Identity; Identity intersections; Identification; Coping; Adaptation; Integration; Workplace culture; Identity work; Stereotyping; Stigmatization.;

    Abstract : In general, immigrants face various problems as they adjust to their new surroundings and begin a new life. The educated, employed Arabic immigrant Muslim women, (EEAIMW), live between two worlds: a Swedish world at work and an Arabic world at home. In this East-West dichotomy, they keep trying to find who they are and where they belong. READ MORE