Essays about: "Westernized"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the word Westernized.

  1. 1. Aunque les cueste la vida/ Even if it will cost them their life : A study of irregular migration between Guatemala and the United States of America and the effects it has on the Maya communities

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studier

    Author : Paulina Åström; Esther Elgaard; [2023]
    Keywords : Guatemala; Irregular Migration; Maya Community; USAID; Corruption; IOM; NGO; Return migration;

    Abstract : Today, many Guatemalans flee the country and leave their home communities behind due to poor living conditions and high unemployment. Irregular migration involves many risks yet is for many seen as a necessity to live a purposeful life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Westernization in Rojava; Infatuation with the West

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Chaton Smedra Chamoun; [2022-11-03]
    Keywords : Rojava; Northeastern Syria; Democratic Confederalism; West; Westernized; Westernness.;

    Abstract : The Kurdish-led Rojava Project in northeastern Syria has gained international attention for its pioneering work on equality, community coexistence, and direct democracy through the implementation of Democratic Confederalism, which is a non-state political system. Although Rojava has only existed for approximately ten years at the time of writing, there is already a body of research on the subject. READ MORE

  4. 3. The gendered coloniality of current development policies : A critical discourse analysis of the Swedish feminist foreign policy

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Madeleine Fagerström; [2022]
    Keywords : Postcolonialism; Neocolonialism; Feminism; Liberal feminism; Discourse; Critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : In 2014, Sweden became the first country in the world to explicitly adopt a feminist foreign policy. Since then many countries have followed their example by putting gender equality, feminism and the rights of women on their agenda for foreign policy. READ MORE

  5. 4. Before the Law: A postcolonial analysis of credibility in the Danish asylum process

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Lærke Vinther Christiansen; [2022]
    Keywords : postcolonialism; credibility; asylum; Denmark; knowledge; Orientalism; Foucault; volunteers; assessors; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores credibility assessment in the Danish asylum determination system, through the perspective of advisors to asylum seekers. These advisors are either lawyers, aid workers, or volunteers, but are all people who have experience supporting asylum seekers through the bureaucratic process of the Danish asylum system. READ MORE

  6. 5. Trade diversification and changing food consumption patterns since the 2000s: The case of homogenizing diets globally and in the BRICS

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Giulia Belardo; [2018]
    Keywords : Food consumption; Homogenization; Diets; Trade diversification; Herfindahl index; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : International agricultural trade has seen big developments throughout time, initially driven particularly by the industrial revolution and then influenced by globalization and changes in technology. Coupled with decreasing barriers to trade, the rise of trade agreements, and economic growth of countries, international influences are having big effects on food consumption patterns. READ MORE