Essays about: "Assimilationism"

Found 4 essays containing the word Assimilationism.

  1. 1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE

  3. 2. The retreat of multiculturalism in the Netherlands: A post-structural policy analysis

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Elina Airiian; [2019]
    Keywords : Dutch integration; Policy analysis; Bacchi; WPR; Post-structuralism; Governmentality;

    Abstract : Since the 1990’s, the retreat of multiculturalism has been described as an integration policy trend across European states. There is however much disagreement among scholars on how this phenomenon should be understood and whether it actually exists. READ MORE

  4. 3. Immigrant integration politics in the East-EU : Contested national models or policy convergence?

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Lejdemyr Erik; [2010]
    Keywords : Immigrant integration; citizenship; policy convergence; multiculturalism; segregationism; universalism; assimilationism; post-multiculturalism; Estonia; Poland; East-Central Europe; East-EU;

    Abstract : Some researchers argue that the immigrant integration approaches in liberal (and “Western-“) states are becoming more and more alike. Some claim that the previous philosophises of integration (i.e. multiculturalism, segregationism, universalism and assimilationism) no longer exists in liberal states. READ MORE

  5. 4. Multiculturalism and Policymaking : A comparative study of Danish and Swedish cultural policies since 1969

    University essay from Statsvetenskap

    Author : Mahama Tawat; [2006]
    Keywords : Assimilationism; Culture; comparative policy; Denmark; integration; multiculturalism; public policymaking; Sweden; Scandinavia; Nordic; immigration.;

    Abstract : This master’s thesis deals with the cultural diversity policies of Denmark and Sweden within the cultural sector. It attempts at explaining why these two “most-similar” scandinavian countries having in common the same cultural model, “the architect model”, opted for different policies when it came to cultural diversity: Assimilationism for Denmark and multiculturalism for Sweden. READ MORE