Essays about: "general discrimination"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 128 essays containing the words general discrimination.

1. 11. International Students' Perceptions Of Their Interactions With Swedish Public Agencies : A case study exploring the barriers that Uppsala University international students face registering in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Linnea Blackmore; [2022]
   Keywords : ethnic discrimination; immigrant nationality; Swedish governmental agencies; interviews; perceived treatment;

   Abstract : This preliminary study examines interactions and experiences of immigrants with Swedish governmental agencies and factors that may affect variation in how these agencies interact with immigrants. Fifteen international students were interviewed, and their experiences with government agencies were evaluated to identify and describe problems they encountered in these interactions. READ MORE

3. 12. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Christopher Cowan; [2022]
   Keywords : mainstream vulnerability analysis; disaster risk reduction; LGBTQ ; sexual and gender diversity; queer theory; queer legal theory; heteronormativity; subordination; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. READ MORE

4. 13. Are Ethnic Income Gaps a Result of Attitudes? : Differences in earnings between natives and immigrants on the Swedish labor market

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

   Author : Anes Velic; [2022]
   Keywords : income gap; employer s prejudice; attitudes; unemployment;

   Abstract : Are ethnic income gaps a result of attitudes? This paper studies how natives’ negative attitudes towards immigrants affect the income gap on the Swedish labor market. The significance of this question is based on policies in the European union that work towards labor markets that are free from discrimination that are based on characteristics such as ethnicity, gender etc. READ MORE

5. 14. Academically skilled refugees’ experience of discrimination while integrating through the Danish and Swedish labor market

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Sandra Fröberg; [2022]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Discrimination; Human Capital; Danishness and Swedishness; Labor Market policy; Immigration and Integration policies; Sweden; Denmark; Öresund; European Studies; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences; Cultural Sciences; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : 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

6. 15. Swedish female entrepreneurs’ perception of their financing experience

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Nils Salomonsson; [2022]
   Keywords : bibliotek; kultursyn; allmänkulturell verksamhet; kulturhus;

   Abstract : Entrepreneurship and the Swedish start-up community have been on an upswing in recent years. There are more incubators and accelerators for growing businesses than ever before. With a growing start-up community there is usually risk capital and finance solutions behind these companies. READ MORE