Essays about: "gendered citizenship"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words gendered citizenship.

  1. 1. The Two-Year Trap

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Regina Mattsson; [2019-08-08]
    Keywords : marriage migration; gendered citizenship; intimate partner violence; structural violence;

    Abstract : Marriage migration contests the normative boundaries of marriage and is therefore becoming object to vast regulations. The Swedish Alien Act’s two-year rule is one such regulation, that is implemented to weed out “fraudulent marriages” among marriage migrants. READ MORE

  3. 2. Conceiving a talk show and civic talk through young women’s eyes : gender in an audience study on Indonesian talk show ‘Mata Najwa’

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Rania Savitri Mafiroh; [2019]
    Keywords : audience engagement; citizenship; civic cultures; civic agency; civic talk; civic mix; female audience; Indonesia; Mata Najwa; Najwa Shihab; intimate public sphere; patriarchal culture; spectrum of engagement; talk show; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis focuses on the agency of young Indonesian women audiences promoted by an Indonesia television talk show, Mata Najwa. The aim of the thesis is understanding the engagement of young Indonesian women with the programme and how they acquire knowledge from this public discussion talk show as their resource in having civic talk about political and social issues in Indonesia. READ MORE

  4. 3. Filipina Domestic Workers in São Paulo - An Explorative Case Study on the Social Reproduction of Class, Gender and Race

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Hannah Clara Reustle; [2017]
    Keywords : social reproduction feminism; field study; Brazil; São Paulo; Filipina migrant domestic workers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The study is a first attempt to academically investigate the case of Filipina domestic workers in São Paulo. In brief, it aims to outline these migrants’ life and working conditions, their insertion and function within class relations and in regard to a gendered and racialized work regime. READ MORE

  5. 4. Policing Swedishness: Analysing discourses of suspicion in police narratives on internal controls of foreigners

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sarah Philipson; [2016]
    Keywords : Internal controls of foreigners; Sweden; border control; mobility; ethnic profiling; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Based on a discourse analysis of police narratives on internal controls of foreigners, this thesis examines how discourses of suspicion are produced within policing. Methodologically and empirically engaging with interviews with police officers operating throughout Sweden, and theoretically drawing on the diffused practices of mobility management, the analysis shows that the police officers practice of internal controls of foreigners are guided by an insufficient frame of regulation. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Poor Talent, the Unusually Knowing Housewife and the New You

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Tina Andersson; [2015-09-08]
    Keywords : education; bildning; knowledge; class; gender; time; temporal; fantasies; subject; positions; discourse; citizenship; modernity; history; Sweden;

    Abstract : The starting point of this thesis is the working class’ fight for knowledge, education and bildning during the 20th century in Sweden. With the general question “who has the right to knowledge?” I go over text- and image material from the two time periods 1930-1949 and 1960-1979 and I also work with material from 2015. READ MORE