Essays about: "migrant literature"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 41 essays containing the words migrant literature.

  1. 21. Sex Trafficking and Migrant Women in Greece: A study of the reasons of the sex trafficking of migrant women

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

    Author : Fernanda Scafini; [2019]
    Keywords : Sex Trafficking; Migrant Women; Greece; Causes of trafficking; migration; exploitation; gender.;

    Abstract : Sex trafficking is a global phenomenon affecting mainly women. This phenomenon is highly apparent in Greece, where thousands of migrant women end up trafficked. In order to understand why this happens, it is important to know the underlying causes of it. READ MORE

  3. 22. ON THE SWEDISH SOCIAL INSURANCE AGENCY AND ITS APPROACH TO DIVERSITY: A Study of Social Inclusion and Diversity in the Swedish Social Insurance System (SSIA)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mattias Lagerstrand; [2018-10-05]
    Keywords : Swedish social security agency; equal provision; diversity; diversification of diversity; superdiversity; welfare provision; linguistic diversity; migrant networks; Gothenburg;

    Abstract : Previous research has shown that the study of diversity need to account for variables other than ethnicity and nationality in order to provide more nuanced findings of the local diversity of experiences also on the basis of e.g. age, gender, migration status and linguistic diversity. READ MORE

  4. 23. “Are We What We Eat?” Negotiating Identities Through Cuisine and Consumption : A Thing Theory Approach to Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Man Ting Yiu; [2018]
    Keywords : Thing Theory; Materiality; Food; Objects; Cuisine; Consumption; Culinary Narrative; Diaspora; Transcultural; Hybridity; Intersectionality; Transference; Craft; Creative Writing;

    Abstract : Culinary narratives are frequently employed to portray migrant identities and societies in Asian diaspora literature This thesis examines cuisine and consumption in Alison Wong’s As The Earth Turns Silver by highlighting the socio-political linkages between material culture and ethnic identity formation of Chinese migrants in New Zealand. Using Brown’s thing theory, food is reframed as site of meaningful discourse to interrogate the role of cuisine and consumption in mediating the migrant experience. READ MORE

  5. 24. 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

  6. 25. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Eva Leonte; [2017]
    Keywords : Otsuka; migrant literature; picture brides; subalternity; feminist theory; communal voice; speech-act criticism; illocutionary force.;

    Abstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE