Essays about: "Legal constructions"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 24 essays containing the words Legal constructions.

  1. 11. Protecting the Girl Child or Upholding Patriarchy? A Case Study of Child Marriage in the Cultural and Legal Context of Tanzania

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Gabriella Blomqvist; Helen Backlund; [2014]
    Keywords : children’s sexuality; patriarchy; human rights; notions of childhood; social constructions of gender; girls; girl child; Tanzania; child marriage; law enactment; access to justice; participation; accountability mechanisms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a case study of child marriage in Tanzania aiming to explore how failures to implement laws prohibiting child marriage can be understood in the Tanzanian context. The study is of a qualitative nature and primarily based on interviews with development actors, working on community and national level with the issue of gender based violence and child marriage. READ MORE

  3. 12. Institutional Online Discourse

    University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

    Author : LUCAS PERAIS; [2013-09-16]
    Keywords : CDA; Critical Discourse Analysis; Institutional Discourse; Online; Web-based; Institutions; Belgium; Welfare Services; Policy; Corpus;

    Abstract : political, partisan discourse or administrative productions. Website studies have been growing in importance in the literature, including critical ones. However, the study of institutional discourse has rather rarely been done with web-based data, and has been rather countryspecific. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Subjectivity of Consent: A Comparison of the Trafficking Protocol and Slavery Convention

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Annabel Raw; [2012]
    Keywords : Slavery; Trafficking; Consent; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The aim of this research paper is to evaluate the extent to which the definition of slavery, exemplified through the 1926 Slavery Convention, offers a viable alternative to the definition of human trafficking under the 2000 Trafficking Protocol. The focus of the comparison centres on the role of consent on behalf of trafficked or enslaved persons, embedded in the respective definitions, and the function of these constructions in the constitution of subjectivity. READ MORE

  5. 14. Who is Welcome into the EU? - A discourse analysis of identity constructions in the EU’s immigration policies

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Anna Kindal; [2012]
    Keywords : European Union; discourse; legal immigrant; illegal immigrant; identity construction; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In examining the complex identities of legal and illegal immigrants, as constructed by the EU, I have used discourse analysis to identify the meanings assigned to them. By using the theories of identity construction made by Torben Bech Dyrberg and discourse analysis from Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe I have analyzed seven official EU statements. READ MORE

  6. 15. A Father’s Right to his Child : In relation to the mother’s right to the child in custody feuds

    University essay from Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi

    Author : Evelina Karlsson; Paola Rodriguez Escobar; [2012]
    Keywords : fathers ‘rights; legal egalitarianism; gender egalitarianism; custody feuds; gender role constructions;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to to look deeper into the subject of father’s rights to his child in relation to the rights of the mother in custody feuds. The hypothesis was that fathers were being discriminated in relation to mothers when it came to child-custody. This research has been done as a literature study with content analysis. READ MORE