Essays about: "Teun A. van Dijk"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Teun A. van Dijk.
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1. Academically skilled refugees’ experience of discrimination while integrating through the Danish and Swedish labor market
University essay from Lunds universitet/EuropastudierAbstract : From empirical material collected through semi-structured interviews, this master’s thesis is conducting a critical discourse analysis, investigating to what extent discoursive structures entails discriminatory treatments of academically skilled refugees in the integration process of entering the Danish and Swedish labor market. Academically skilled refugees and relevant caseworkers from both Denmark and Sweden have been interviewed to investigate individual experiences related to the integration process. READ MORE
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2. Playing a two-faced game in a changing arena: A Neo-Gramscian analysis of China's policy on Latin America
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The position of The People’s Republic of China in international relations has developed significantly during the 21st century. In Latin America, growing Chinese engagement has been particularly visible. READ MORE
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3. A Long Way Home : Spontaneous Returns and Potential Returns of Syrian Refugees Examined
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The recent wave of Syrian refugees’ spontaneous return to conflict areas in Syria is not a new phenomenon, various cases of return to areas that do not meet safety and security standards has happened in cases like Somali refugees returning from Kenya or Angolan refugees returning from Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, the Syrian case is important to study in order to examine any new patterns or elements in refugee returns that could arise or could be unpacked. READ MORE
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4. 'Hygge racism': "noget som man nok bruger mere end man tænker over". A qualitative study of well-intentioned racism
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : The aim of this study is to add to the body of knowledge on racisms in Denmark with the hope that further conceptual developments on ‘hygge racism’ can be made. In order to achieve this general aim, I analyse ‘hygge racism’ based on chosen concepts that show how it is reproduced and normalised in Denmark, thus dealing with it on structural and cultural levels, while also showing how it is a discursive act of ‘doing’ racism, thereby adding the personal level to the analysis. READ MORE
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5. 'The Hate in Our Midst' : The 2017 Unite the Right Rally and Representations of Voice, Race, and Emotions in CNN International and Al-Jazeera English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMKAbstract : Although the 'affective turn' in social sciences lead to a new understanding of the effects of emotions on society, the role of emotions in media remains scarcely researched. Purpose of this study is to shed light on emotions in global television news and the ways in which gendered and racialized power relations may shape, and may be shaped by, emotional practices and discourses. READ MORE
