Essays about: "legal violence"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 157 essays containing the words legal violence.

  1. 21. Gender-Based Violence in Conflict and Post-conflict Societies : A Case Study of South Sudan

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Lathan Yusuf; [2022]
    Keywords : Gender-Based Violence; Human Rights; Conflict; South Sudan;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on GBV against women and girls in conflict and post-conflict societies with a particular emphasis on South Sudan. It notes that women and girls are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence, and other consequences of war, including displacement and loss of livelihood. READ MORE

  3. 22. Being Pushed Forward and Back; : Immigrant Experiences on Mass Migration Movement at Turkish-Greek Border in 2020.

    University essay from

    Author : Yusuf sahiner; [2022]
    Keywords : Turkish-Greek Border; irregular migration; immigrant experiences; AoM; pushback;

    Abstract : Tens of thousands of migrants headed for the Greece-EU border line immediately after the Turkish Government's decision that it would not prevent third-country nationals wishing to cross into Europe in early spring 2020. This study examines the primary motivations of immigrants and their experiences in encountering Turkish and Greek security forces during the period in question. READ MORE

  4. 23. A Knight(mare) in Shining Armour: A Foucauldian-Feminist Analysis of Sexsomnia Defence in Swedish Courts

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Elin Persmo; [2022]
    Keywords : Sexsomnia; Sexual behaviour during sleep; Foucault; Swedish court system; Sexual violence; Medico-legal field; and Feminist socio-legal theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In recent years, several men in Sweden have been acquitted of different sexual offences because the courts deemed that it could have occurred in their sleep. According to a leading expert, several of the Swedish acquitting cases are based on incorrect or irrelevant arguments and reasoning regarding sexsomnia. READ MORE

  5. 24. Gendering Ethnicity : Colonialism and Structural Violence in the Swedish 1928 Reindeer Grazing Act

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Alva Blomkvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Swedish colonialism; Reindeer Grazing Act; Sámi; Sápmi; gender; violence;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the gendering of ethnicity in the Swedish Reindeer Grazing Act of 1928 (RBL 1928) was part of a colonial structure of violence. The research context in which this thesis places itself is in the intersection of previous scholarship on the colonial interest in controlling Indigenous marriage, and scholarship on Swedish colonial history in Sápmi. READ MORE

  6. 25. We are here, we don’t fear Feminists counteracting legitimizing myths and authoritarian practices in Turkey to end violence against women

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

    Author : Sofie Karlsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Feminist mobilization; violence against women; Turkey; legitimizing myths; Authoritarianism; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Previous literature suggests that the republic of Turkey is transforming from a democracy to an authoritarian country under Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’s rule. The Turkish government has introduced and implemented a series of events that organizes around the supreme power of the President - one major being the withdrawal from the Istanbul convention. READ MORE