Essays about: "socio-legal studies"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words socio-legal studies.

1. 6. Intersecting housing discrimination : A socio-legal study on the limits of Swedish anti-discrimination law

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Sandra Klinth; [2018]
   Keywords : anti-discrimination law; critical legal studies; discrimination; housing; human rights; intersectionality; law; limits of law; socio-legal studies;

   Abstract : This qualitative socio-legal study critically examined the protection against housing discrimination found in chapter 2 § 12 of the Swedish Discrimination Act (SFS 2008:567), in light of United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union housing and non-discrimination (human rights) standards. As an applied socio-legal study it aimed to be critical towards the limits of law in context. READ MORE

3. 7. Migrant Workers on the Borderline: A Socio-Legal Study of the Implementation of an EU Directive

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Rosquist; [2012]
   Keywords : Discourse analysis; Bureaucracy; Migrant work; Europeanization; Michel Foucault; EU legislation; Multi-level governance; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This masters thesis in Sociology of Law is a comparative study which explores Europeanization, or more specifically how an EU directive is interpreted by the relevant bureaucratic institutions of a selection of EU countries. Through a discourse analysis based on gender theory, it is shown that from currently developing EU legislation on work permits emerges a policy of differentiation between migrant workers based on to what type of work these permits pertain. READ MORE