Essays about: "structural racism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 28 essays containing the words structural racism.

1. 6. Racism and parenting: The experiences and resilience of Afro-origin parents raising children in Gothenburg, Sweden.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för socialt arbete

   Author : Mildrate Mukanjari; [2020-12-16]
   Keywords : Afro-origin; parenting; racism; resilience;

   Abstract : This study investigates and develops an in-depth understanding of the racism experienced by Afro-origin parents and their children in Gothenburg, Sweden, the toll it takes on them, and their coping strategies. It is a qualitative study, based on in-depth, semi-structured, qualitative interviews with six female and three male Afro-origin parents. READ MORE

3. 7. The Swedish exception : A postcolonial analysis of exclusion in the Swedish Covid-19 strategy

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

   Author : Juan-Carlos Munoz; [2020]
   Keywords : Covid-19; ethnic minorities; structural vulnerability; postcolonial analysis; disaster response; environmental racism; institutionalized discrimination;

   Abstract : This essay seeks to understand the possible reasons behind the high rates of non-white ethnic minorities, such as the Somali-Swedish community among hospitalized Covid-19 patients in Sweden. It interrogates the possibility of a White middle-class bias in the Swedish government and the National Pandemic Group’s management of the covid-19 crisis. READ MORE

4. 8. Opre Roma! // Up, Romanies! : A Thematic Analysis of Appearance, Voice and Agency of Romani Media Activists’ Platforms in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Leonie Noe; [2020]
   Keywords : Romani Media Activism; Media Activism; Collective Agency; Silence; Structural Discrimination; Othering; Dehumanization; Voice; Appearance; Historicity; Decoloniality; Thematic Analysis; Semi-Structured Interviewing; Sweden; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This research is concerned with Romani media activists’ use of different online platforms in order to counter the stereotypical representation of Roma in dominant discourses, such as in mass media and state policies. Links are made between these platforms and the cultural context of Sweden that they are set in. READ MORE

5. 9. "A matter of life and death": An intersectional study on black women’s political participation in Brazil

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Latinamerikainstitutet

   Author : Kelly Matias dos Santos; [2020]
   Keywords : Black women in politics; female political participation; black feminism; intersectionality; Brazil; intersectional research.;

   Abstract : Brazil is in the 132nd position in the ranking for female parliamentary participation according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s latest report (2019). Black women are the ones least involved in national politics. In the state of São Paulo 94 state Deputies were elected in 2018, of these only 11 are women and only 3 are black. READ MORE

6. 10. More than a pipeline: understanding and responding to the environmental injustices surrounding the Coastal GasLink pipeline conflict

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Avital Meira van Meijeren Karp; [2020]
   Keywords : Environmental justice; First Nations; Indigenous research methods; Pipeline conflicts; Canada; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The winter of 2020 was dominated by Canadian and international news coverage about a group of indigenous land defenders in Northern British Columbia, Canada. At the centre of the media frenzy was a pipeline conflict involving an indigenous community, namely, the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and Canada’s largest private sector investment ever which is set to cross directly through Wet’suwet’en territory. READ MORE