Essays about: "female refugees"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the words female refugees.
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11. Gender-related persecution of refugee women - A feminist analysis of the persecution grounds of the refugee definition
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Like many other international human rights law instruments, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was written from a male perspective, which has resulted in that the refugee definition of the Convention historically has been interpreted through a framework of male experiences. For this reason, many asylum claims of female applicants have been ignored. READ MORE
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12. The interplay and clash of religious norms and Swedish divorce laws
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis aims to explore the interplay and clash of religious norms and Swedish divorce laws and the role of migration in shaping these processes. The case of Sweden deserves particular attention in this respect, as it has been more open than other EU countries in terms of accepting refugees and asylum seekers over the last two decades. READ MORE
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13. Female Genital Mutilation and Refugee Status in Swedish Asylum Cases - A Critique from a Gender Perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : There has been an increased awareness during the past decades of how structural gender inequalities have negatively affected women’s ability to claim refugee status as defined in the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. In Sweden, this discussion led to an amendment of the Immigration Act in 2005, where gender-related persecution was added as a ground for refugee status. READ MORE
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14. Sexual Violence and its Migration Aftermath
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Before the armed conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina, sexual violence had been regarded as a side-effect of war. During that war, sexual violence became a weapon of ethnic cleansing. Women were raped publicly or in private, in masses or individually. READ MORE
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15. Restricted Freedom: Depressive Experiences and Gender Identities among Female Palestinian Adolescent Refugees
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : The purpose of this study was to provide a complementary understanding to depression among female adolescent refugees through facilitating a feminist social constructionist approach emphasizing the girls’ own subjective experiences and understandings. The research questions dealt with how female adolescent refugees understand the discourses of femininity in their specific context and how they feel and act in regards of these discourses, what meaning female adolescent refugees put into their depressive experiences, how they make sense of these experiences, under what circumstances they are living and how they think these influence their well-being. READ MORE
