Essays about: "migrant women"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 92 essays containing the words migrant women.

  1. 11. Migration Background and Preterm Birth in Sweden : A multigenerational register-based cohort study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för folkhälsovetenskap

    Author : Lovisa Hellsten; [2022]
    Keywords : Preterm; Intergenerational; Multigenerational; Migration; Sweden; Gestational age;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to compare preterm birth (PTB) in daughters (G2) and granddaughters (G3) of foreign- and Swedish-born women (G1), to evaluate patterns in PTB in relation to migrant background over generations. A multigenerational cohort study was conducted using register data. READ MORE

  3. 12. Tracing the Experiences of Nigerian Women Migrants Beyond the Category of ‘Irregular’ Migration.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Chibuikem Emmanuel Anyanwu; [2022]
    Keywords : Migration; Women; irregular Migration; Nigeria; Sweden.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As globalization and development seem to have “removed geographical boundaries between countries”, the resulting patterns of human mobility (Gomory, 2002; Leach, Scoones & Stirling, 2010) have attracted the discursive study on the topic of migration. There are migration aspects that categorize migrants as regular, irregular, voluntary or involuntary. READ MORE

  4. 13. Female Internal Migration: The case of Peru

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Xiomara Seminario Candiotti; [2022]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study has been to provide a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic situation of migrant women in the context of Peru, a country historically marked by internal migration rates. It has been found that migrant women are socially excluded in relation to three socioeconomic indicators (1) employment sector, (2) educational attainment and (3) healthcare coverage, predominantly in the latter. READ MORE

  5. 14. Gender, migration, and work: Portuguese women in Luxembourg

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Joy Hellers; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Female migrants have long been neglected in migration studies and this paper therefore reconditions the intra-European migration of young women between the 1980s and 1990s by using the case study of Portuguese women in Luxembourg. While today’s discussion around the feminization of migration increasingly considers gender as a hidden cause of migration, earlier studies on female migration neglect this aspect. READ MORE

  6. 15. Culture, Gender, and Emotions in Urban Green Spaces : Migrant women’s encounters of urban green spaces in Istanbul and Stockholm

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Yildiz Gulce Demirer; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminist geography; emotional geography; urban green space; encounter; affect; qualitative GIS;

    Abstract : This thesis sets out to explore how immigrant women encounter urban green spaces in Istanbul and Stockholm in their everyday lives. Underlying this focus is the importance of urban green spaces’ in providing a sustainable future and a healthy life for all and inequalities in accessing these spaces. READ MORE