Essays about: "migration ideology"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 17 essays containing the words migration ideology.
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11. The nexus between discourse and multi-level governance during times of crisis : Sweden during the 2015-2016 refugee movements
University essay from Linköpings universitet/StatsvetenskapAbstract : In order to understand the role of discourse in a system of multi-level governance, this thesis performs a case study of Sweden’s response to the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. Initially praised as the European country who accepted the highest number of asylum applications per capita, by the end of 2015 Sweden had limited its asylum policy to the minimum levels under EU law. READ MORE
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12. Negotiating Identity : A sociolinguistic analysis of adult English speaking immigrants in Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Due to increased transnational migration and globalisation, English has come to have a high status in Sweden, and is used in daily communication. The purpose of this research is to investigate how immigrants with English as their first language, negotiate their identity in Sweden, how they construct the need to (not) speak Swedish, and, finally, how their linguistic trajectories inform us about their linguistic ideologies and reported practices. READ MORE
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13. A Critical Understanding of Power Relations through Women’s Experience with the Mentorship Program, Carpe Sophia: Is Women’s Economic Empowerment a Way Out of Gender Inequality?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : By applying a critical understanding of empowerment, this study explores the power relations in women’s daily lives through their experience with a mentorship program called Carpe Sophia and analyzes whether or to what extent this program has an impact on women’s empowerment that can bring about gender equality. Carpe Sophia is a women’s economic empowerment program with an aim to increase employment rate among women with foreign background in Malmö, Sweden. READ MORE
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14. Protecting the Cross and Welcoming the Stranger : A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Church of Sweden’s Refugee Work the Year 2017
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Through the application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)— and paying extra attention to the utilization of ideological squaring, actor descriptions, and lexicalization— this thesis aims to discuss the Church of Sweden’s “official” discourse regarding its humanitarian and social engagement with refugees and refugee issues the year 2017. Wherein, the author attempts to discuss what the collected material— from the internet-based function Support migration, and personal semi-structured interviews with Church personnel— can tell one about the Church’s views on its self-identity, social engagement, as well as ecumenical and interreligious relations, in an increasingly diverse Swedish society. READ MORE
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15. The Justice Problem: Individualising Consensus in a Dissenting World of Moral Pluralism
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Justice, in the broadest sense of equality and fairness, is a cornerstone aspect of our abilities, as human beings, to lead individual lives in the way we choose according to what we see as the right or the good way to live. A catalyst for any debate over a theory of justice, Immanuel Kant’s work provides a fundamental basis from which we should begin to understand why society, with justice as a key aspect, is shaped in the way it is. READ MORE
