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  1. 1. Behind the Academic Underachievement of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom : Examining the Prevalence and Impacts of Structural Barriers and Teachers’ Low Expectations in the Schooling of Black Caribbean Children in the United Kingdom

    University essay from

    Author : Shewit Yemane; [2023]
    Keywords : Black Caribbean children; academic underachievement; teachers low expectations; self-efficacy.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand the prevalence and impacts of structural barriers and teachers’ low expectations in the academic underachievement of Black Caribbean children in the United Kingdom. In doing so, this thesis has utilized the following two theories: systemic racism and self-efficacy. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Everyday racism is not something that keeps me up at night” : The second-generation Afro-Swedes experience of public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Malleel Abdullahi; [2022]
    Keywords : Afro-Swedes; intersectionality; everyday racism; public spaces; the racialization of space; inclusive; exclusive.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to understand how the second-generation Afro-Swedes experience everyday racism in public spaces as racialized and gendered bodies. The three key dimensions of study are to recognize (1) blackness in public space, (2) experiences of everyday racism in public space, and (3) coping strategies to everyday racism. READ MORE

  4. 3. Second generation Afro-Swedes – Various factors behind Structural Racism in the Swedish labor market

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Socialt arbete

    Author : Moses Akhigbemen; Kirsi Mutshipule; [2022]
    Keywords : Employability; Structural Racism; Discrimination;

    Abstract : This qualitative study aims to reach further understanding of how social workers at the Swedish Public Employment Service perceive structural racism in the Swedish labor market for second-generation afro-swedes. The study is conducted in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 4. Power Asymmetries in Humanitarian Aid : A Discourse Analysis of Power Hierarchies between European Citizen Aid Groups and Non-Western People on the Move

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Martine Dahl; [2022]
    Keywords : Humanitarian Aid; people on the move; Power Assymmetries; Racism; Eurocentrism; Postcolonialism; International Relations; Citizen Aid Groups; NGOs; migrants; refugees;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I investigate how three European citizen aid groups (Collective Aid, Refugee Women’s Centre, and No Name Kitchen) handle the asymmetrical power relationships between Western volunteers and non-Western people on the move. Inspired by postcolonial international relations literature and previous research on power asymmetries in humanitarian aid, I conduct a discourse analysis guided by the four categories “assuming equality through horizontal discourses”, “reconstituting social subjects”, “putting minds into motion”, and “civil disobedience”. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
    Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

    Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE