Essays about: "exile"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 37 essays containing the word exile.

  1. 26. Returning to Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan: Approaching Post-Conflict Return from the Perspective of Young Adults

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

    Author : Larissa Meier; [2013]
    Keywords : sustainable return; post-conflict; South Sudan; identity; social networks; preparedness; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Over two million people have returned from exile to South Sudan since peace was restored in 2005. Among them many young men and women who have mainly grown up in urban areas in Sudan. Northern Bahr el Ghazal state (NBeG) which borders Sudan receives the highest number of returnees. Yet NBeG is ill-prepared to absorb this influx of people. READ MORE

  2. 27. James Joyce's Dubliners as Migrant Writing: A Vision of Ireland from Exile

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Pamela Söderkvist; [2013]
    Keywords : James Joyce; Dubliners; postcolonialism; migrant literature; third space writing; identity; relationship to local culture; Ireland;

    Abstract : This essay focuses on the concepts of relationship to local culture, identity and third space writing found in migrant literature and explores their relevance to James Joyce’s Dubliners in order to support a migrant reading of the collection. James Joyce has already been read as a migrant writer; however, Dubliners has not been considered as being an important contribution to this mode of writing. READ MORE

  3. 28. Spatiality of Livelihood Strategies : the Reciprocal Relationships between Space and Livelihoods in the Tibetan Exile Community in India

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur, energi och miljö

    Author : Wilda Nilsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Spatiality of livelihoods; Tibetans in exile; India; livelihood strategies; space; place; Försörjningsstrategiers rumslighet; exil-tibetaner; Indien; försörjnings livelihood strategier; sustainable livelihood framework; space; place;

    Abstract : Research on livelihoods has been conducted across various fields but there has been less focus upon detection and analyzing of the interconnected relationships between space and livelihoods. This study investigates these relationships from a place-specific point of view utilizing the Tibetan exile community in India as a case study. READ MORE

  4. 29. The Present Absence - the representation of immigrant women in the Swedish television news

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

    Author : Hanna Hanski Grünewald; [2012]
    Keywords : representation; women; immigrant women; news; social construction of the news; discourse; feminist media studies; intersectionality; semiotics; globalization; stereotypes; us them; content analysis; constructionist approach; roles;

    Abstract : This study on the representation of immigrant women in the news investigates three questions: How often do immigrant women appear in the news? In what roles are the immigrant women presented and what issues do they speak about? What are the relationships between those involved in the news features? The research has been conducted through the use of content analysis in combination with the qualitative approaches of semiotics and discourse within a framework of the theoretical perspective of intersectionality. Additional theories in the study are considering the global tendencies and the media, the social construction of news, us & them and stereotypes, as well as feminist media studies. READ MORE

  5. 30. Global spirituality - local development

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Rodrigo Hernandez; Andréas Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : Dalai lama; religion; development; Divine life society; fieldwork; India; local development; spirituality; Sivananda; Tibet; Tibetan government in exile; yoga;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to examine the dynamics between spirituality and development. The point of departure for the study took place in Rishikesh and Dharamsala, in India. Our main object was to examine the role of the Divine Life Society (DLS), in Rishikesh and the Tibetan government in exile, in Dharamsala, in terms of local development. READ MORE