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1. 1. Living Transnational Financial Lives: Exploring the Everyday Financial Practices, Networks and Subjectivities of Singaporeans in Sweden

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

   Author : Yong Hao Tan; [2022]
   Keywords : Financialisation of everyday life; transnational migrants; everyday financial practices; networks; subjectivities; Singapore; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the everyday financial lives of transnational migrants through the case of Singaporean migrants in Sweden. Drawing upon the scholarship on the financialisation of everyday life and transnational migration across economic and sociocultural geography, this thesis develops a conceptual framework that explores the everyday financial practices, networks and subjectivities that shape the lived financial realities of transnational migrants and how the complex and overlapping relationships between these different aspects of the financial everyday shapes the formation of the transnational financial subject. READ MORE

3. 2. A Kurdish-Speaking Community of Change : How Social and Political Organising takes Shape in the PYD-controlled Areas in Syria

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

   Author : Harriet Rump; [2014]
   Keywords : Top-down regulations; bottom-up organising; social movements theory; contentious politics; partial and situated knowledge; racialising; essentialisng discourses; PYD; Syrian Kurdish speaking community; Kurdishness; Syria; the Arab Spring; revolution; uprising.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores current trends in social and political organising in Northern Syria, in areas controlled by the PYD. The research is built on discussions between eight participants from the Syrian Kurdish-speaking community living in the areas. READ MORE

4. 3. Representing Who? - An analysis and critical discussion of the Sex Workers' Rights Movement in a Danish context

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Sara Lykke Wondie Andersen; [2013]
   Keywords : Emancipation.; Marginalization; Stigma; Identity Politics; Sexuality; Feminism; Feminist Standpoint Theory; Spivak; Prostitution; Sex work; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Situated in a polarized debate on prostitution and sex work, this thesis sets out to explore the characteristics of the Sex Workers Rights Movement in a contemporary Danish context. The thesis builds on respectively a critical theoretical and a social constructivist epistemology. READ MORE