Essays about: "economic transnationalism"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the words economic transnationalism.

  1. 11. Swedish Trade Unions’ Alliances - Geographical strategies and motivations

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle

    Author : Sara Falkensjö; [2017-08-17]
    Keywords : trade unions; geographical strategies; agency; scale; geography of justice; Sweden;

    Abstract : Workers’ agency, and their struggles to potentially increase their agency, has been and still is intriguing labour geographers. The relevance and potential of the role of the trade union for workers’ power is an interesting subject in a time of international competition and economic disparities. READ MORE

  3. 12. Integration – A Lifetime Project : Analysis of the Integration Process of Quota Refugees in Iceland

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Hjördis Sigurjonsdottir; [2016]
    Keywords : Migration; refugees; integration process; life course; transnational living; social networks; Iceland;

    Abstract : Due to an increased flow of refugees over the past few years, affairs of refugees have caught increased attention. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the integration process of an earlier group of quota refugees who came to rural Iceland in 1998, from former Yugoslavia. READ MORE

  4. 13. Do transnational activities hinder integration? : A critical appraisal of assimilation theory in relation to migrant transnationalism

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Andrea Monti; [2015]
    Keywords : Integration; migrant assimilation; transnationalism; transnational activities; acculturation strategies; LNU-UFB;

    Abstract : Transnational perspectives on migration have challenged conventional understandings of migrant assimilation. However, theories on the relation between transnational engagement and integration are still offering a quite dualistic picture. READ MORE

  5. 14. The role of materiality in transnational family relationships of Czech migrants in Sweden

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

    Author : Kristyna Peychlova; [2012]
    Keywords : transnational families; materiality; Czechoslovak political emigration; post-1989 Czech migration; license to leave; long-distance communication; return visits; kin visits;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the transnational family relationships of Czech pre-1989 political émigrés and post-1989 love/ economic migrants in Sweden and their homeland-based relatives, by looking at the practices via which these relationships are initiated and maintained and the role of materiality in these practices. The theoretical framework builds on the notion of “transnationalism from below” as a perspective which intersects migration and family studies, and posits the focus on material culture as an effective analytical tool. READ MORE

  6. 15. Return migration, transnationalism and development : Social remittances of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Louisa Vogiazides; [2012]
    Keywords : Return migration; development; transnationalism; social remittances; social capital; Sweden; Bosnia and Herzegovina;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the effects of return migration on development through the case of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on thirteen in-depth interviews and observation, it examines returnees’ ‘social remittances’, which consist of ideas, practices, and social capital (or social connections) that migrants bring to their countries of origin. READ MORE