Essays about: "international workers"

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  1. 1. The new Italian take on food sovereignty : a discourse analysis of food sovereignty in different contexts

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Diana Gafur; [2024]
    Keywords : food sovereignty; discourse theory; discourse analysis; chain of equivalence; nodal point; La Via Campesina; Italian Government; sustainability;

    Abstract : This research is investigating the Italian Government’s use of the food sovereignty discourse. This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the semantic term and how its meaning changes in different contexts. Food sovereignty was originally coined by the “peasant movement” called La Via Campesina. READ MORE

  3. 2. Menstrual rights are human rights - a qualitative study about period poverty among homeless Roma in Stockholm

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

    Author : Britta Dohmen; Britta Dohmen; [2023-11-03]
    Keywords : period poverty; menstruation; vulnerable EU citizens; Roma; Stockholm; feminism;

    Abstract : In the past decade, period poverty has gained more attention in international research. However, in Sweden the issue is still neglected which results in a complete absence of scientific research. Period poverty is not exclusively a phenomenon in low-income countries but is present around the globe. READ MORE

  4. 3. OWNERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION IN AID PROJECTS A qualitative study of workers perceptions of work methods, constraints and motives to ownership and participation reforms in the aid project Bai Bang

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Louise Grähs; [2023-04-14]
    Keywords : Ownership reforms; Participation reforms; Aid projects; The Bai Bang project; Constraints to ownership; Instrumentalist motives to ownership; Purist motives to ownership;

    Abstract : The purpose of the essay is to develop a better understanding of aid- actors and implementors perceptions of efforts to create ownership and participation in aid projects. In research and policy literature on international aid, the terms ownership and participation have emerged as fundamental components for ensuring the success of aid (Rabinowitz 2015, Kanji & Greenwood 2001, Brown 2017). READ MORE

  5. 4. Freedom seekers in paradise - Investigating the relationship between Swedish remote workers in Lisbon and the local population

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Adam Bergman; [2023]
    Keywords : Lifestyle Migration; Digital Nomads; Expats; Remote work; Gentrification; Lisbon; Portugal; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In this research study, which has focused on Swedish lifestyle migrants in Lisbon (Portugal), the attitude towards the phenomenon of lifestyle migration has been investigated more deeply. Lifestyle migration is an academic concept that describes the people who are relatively privileged and who move to a cheaper country to improve their quality of life. READ MORE

  6. 5. “Don’t do it, but do it” : Exploring a legal window of opportunity for safe abortion and the role of healthcare practitioners in implementing the right to health in Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Anna Ternström; [2023]
    Keywords : SDG3; SDG4; safe abortion; SRHR; human rights; HRBA; street-level bureaucracy; global health; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Unsafe abortion is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality with 47,000 largely avoidable deaths occurring globally every year, the majority in the global south. Ethiopia has taken a unique approach to addressing maternal mortality impacted by unsafe abortion through a 2005 reform of the abortion legislation in which abortion is illegal but available under a range of exceptions. READ MORE