Essays about: "socioeconomic inequality"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 51 essays containing the words socioeconomic inequality.
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16. Materialisation of emergent farmers in a Malawian context : a privileged class’ positioning in agricultural transformation
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Emergent farmers have rapidly increased in numbers on the sub-Saharan African continent during the last couple of decades. The main interest in this study lies in how emergent farmers have materialised as a class in a political economic context and historical process and what societal impact they have had. READ MORE
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17. Disability risk disparity among the immigrant population in the United States, 2009-2018
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis attempts to examine the relationship between immigrant generation status and disability risk in the US. The difference in disability risk, resulting from a series of chronic health conditions, is one of the major indicators of health disparities among immigrants which contribute to persistent ethnic/racial stratification of health. READ MORE
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18. “I am fighting the best I can” : Women’s adaptive capacity when facing rain variability in Paje,Zanzibar (Tanzania)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografiAbstract : Many of the world’s most impoverished populations rely on farming, hunting and gathering to eat and earn a living where people often have just enough food and assets to last through the next season, and ultimately inadequate reserves to fall back on in the event of a poor harvest. Rural resource-dependent livelihoods are embedded in high risks, as climate variability and climate extremes are additional stressors to poverty. READ MORE
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19. The Political Strategies to Dismantle the "Ghetto": Understanding the "Ghetto" in Denmark through the Nationalist and "Othering" Discursive Lenses
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Since 2010, the Danish governments have issued an annual list of disadvantaged social housing areas in Denmark, which later became known as the "ghetto list" (ghettolisten). The list categorizes social housing areas with socioeconomic problems, and where many of the residents are immigrants or descendants with non-western backgrounds. READ MORE
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20. Environmental justice: are socially vulnerable more likely to be exposed to air pollution? Evidence from Poland
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : According to previous literature, this is the first study that uses quantitative methods to analyse the correlation between air pollution and socioeconomic deprivation in Poland. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) model and cross-sectional data from 2018, gathered from the European Environment Agency and Statistics Poland, I arrive at two main results. READ MORE
