Essays about: "minority youth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words minority youth.

  1. 1. “As long as there are Sweden Finns then there should be a need” : A Qualitative Study of Finnish Revitalisation Initiated by the Sweden Finnish Youth Organisation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Linnéa Backvall; [2023]
    Keywords : Language revitalisation; Sweden Finns; Finnish; Sweden Finnish; national minorities; minority languages; minority youth; new speakers; interviews; COD model; identity; Språkrevitalisering; sverigefinnar; finska; sverigefinska; nationella minoriteter; minoritetsspråk; minoritetsungdomar; nya talare; intervju; motivation; COD-modellen; identitet;

    Abstract : Young people are a central group in revitalisation efforts that aim to turn the tide of language shift for speakers of endangered languages. In the context of the five national minorities of Sweden, this thesis looks at the motivation of young Sweden Finns to participate in or lead revitalisation efforts for Finnish in Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Do I Post This or Not?” LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media Under Parental Surveillance

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap

    Author : Vera Nygren; Daniela Laura Wallin; [2023]
    Keywords : LGBTQ youth; social media; social network; family dynamics; parental surveillance; selfcensorship; dysaffordance.;

    Abstract : As social media has become more entwined with society, parents are facing fears around how their children use them, and who they connect with. As a result, some resort to parental control technologies that enable them to surveil their children’s online activities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Intergroup contact beyond borders and trauma : A case study of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Alexandra Merguerian; [2023]
    Keywords : Intergroup contact; desecuritization; social identity; chosen trauma; musicking; intergroup dialogue; Israel; Jerusalem Youth Chorus;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to the literature on intergroup contact by exploring the long-term impact of grassroots efforts on members of majority and minority groups involved in an intractable conflict. In such circumstances, the conflict parties’ existential survival is perceived to be at stake, which results in salient group boundaries magnified by competing memories of collective trauma. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Always been an Alien” - A qualitative study on how multilingual young adults experience and navigate identity and belonging in Skopje, North Macedonia.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Milan Wall Kovacevski; [2022-12-12]
    Keywords : Ethnicity; Social Work; Identity; Belonging; Multilingual; Young Adults; North Macedonia;

    Abstract : This study offers empirical arguments for how multilingual young adults navigate and experience identity and belonging in Skopje. A city reported to be, one of the most multicultural cities in South-East Europe, where ethnic exclusion and interethnic segregation is outmost present (Veron, 2016:1448; Stojanov, 2020:74). READ MORE

  6. 5. Heroes for Change or Systems for Change? Is it time to reject heroism discourse? : A critical eye into a comic edutainment on SDGs

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Aisha Al-Daour; [2021]
    Keywords : Citizenship Education; Universalism; Post-colonialism; Comics; Superheroes; Semiotics;

    Abstract : This study seeks to extend observations on critical citizenship education by examining what the edutainment Comics Uniting Nations, which presents the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), may tell us about the UN view of imagined agency and citizenship, and subsequently, its broader view of development. Given that the SDGs’ message within the comics targets a global audience, the research work in this thesis puts the comic Heroes for Change to the test by surveying how the minority community in Gaza, occupied Palestine feel and situate themselves in the SDGs’ universal message. READ MORE