Essays about: "ethnic discrimination"

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  1. 31. Mind The Gap! Pay, Gender, and Ethnicity in the United Kingdom

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Hannah Leadbetter; [2020]
    Keywords : Pay gaps gender ethnicity occupational segregation double disadvantage; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Despite many years of progress towards closing the gender pay gap and achieving racial equality, women from ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom earn less compared to their male counterparts and to the population average. The extent of channelling into certain areas of occupation and employment are a prominent feature of the employment of minority groups in the UK and is a key mechanism investigated in this study. READ MORE

  3. 32. Veiled Muslim women´s position and situation in the Swedish labor market: A socio-legal study on potential marginalizing structures within the Swedish labor market, and the role of law in facilitating the continued reproduction of these

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Sarah Tegborg; [2020]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Previous research illustrates that Muslim minorities struggle to establish themselves in the European labor market. Veiled Muslim women appear to be a particularly disadvantaged group. Research regarding veiled Muslim women’s position and situation in the Swedish labor market is almost nonexistent. This study attempted to fill this knowledge gap. READ MORE

  4. 33. Ethnic Discrimination : A Study on Swedish Municipalities

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Aaron Åberg; Måns Boström; [2020]
    Keywords : Ethnic discrimination; correspondence test; public authorities;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes whether there are differences in treatment for Western-Balkan and Arabic sounding names when requesting information about the Swedish for Immigrants (SFI) program by Swedish municipalities. To answer this question, a correspondence test was conducted in which all 290 municipalities in Sweden were contacted via emails from two fictitious inquirers. READ MORE

  5. 34. “Equality, Development and Peace for All Women Everywhere”? : An Analysis of Sexual Violence Against Women and Concurring International Conventions Concerned with Protecting the Rights of Women

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Annika Sophie Müller; [2020]
    Keywords : Feminist Theory; Multi-Ethnic Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Intersectionality; Violence Against Women; Sexual Violence; CEDAW; UDHR; DEVAW; BPfA; Germany; South Korea; Nigeria; International Conventions; Women’s Rights; Thematic Analysis; Problem-Solution Discourse; ‘What is the Problem Represented to Be’ Approach; WPR Approach; ‘Motifs-Issues-Representations-and-Implications’ Approach; MIRI Approach;

    Abstract : Violence against women continues to be an issue that severely impacts women worldwide. Since the global spread of the #MeToo movement in 2017, debates regarding this issue significantly increased. Yet the precise ways in which women are impacted by violence, heavily influenced by their unique and diverse aspects of identity, are often disregarded. READ MORE

  6. 35. Now you see it, now you don’t - A literature-based study on identifying normative whiteness in relation to structural racism and social determinants of health

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicin

    Author : Laura Voutilainen; [2019-08-01]
    Keywords : whiteness; critical race and whiteness studies; social determinants of health; public health; structural racism; vithet; kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier; hälsans sociala bestämningsfaktorer; folkhälsovetenskap; strukturell rasism;

    Abstract : Background: Structural racism is increasingly regarded as a central issue for disparities in social determinants of health. Eliminating such structure can be seen as central for achieving racial health equity. READ MORE