Essays about: "structural vulnerability"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 44 essays containing the words structural vulnerability.

  1. 16. Threat or Possibility: Land Rights & Disaster-Vulnerability - A qualitative study on land rights, tenure security and disaster-vulnerability in light of the 2018 land law amendment in Myanmar

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Nina Fuchsová; [2020]
    Keywords : land rights; tenure; disaster-vulnerability; ethnic minorities; Myanmar; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Secured land tenure is considered to play a crucial role in decreasing disaster-vulnerability. By signing the Sendai Framework, Myanmar Government agreed to focus its policies on reducing risks of natural disasters. READ MORE

  3. 17. Indigenous Peoples and Internal Displacement: A Legal No Man's Land?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Jack Musgrave; [2020]
    Keywords : Indigenous peoples; human rights; internal displacement; Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement; UNDRIP; ILO Convention no. 169; Colombia; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : “Cultural identity is closely linked to their ancestral lands. If they are deprived of them, by means of forced displacement, it seriously affects their cultural identity, and finally, their very right to life lato sensu... READ MORE

  4. 18. Abuse of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Caroline Älmeby; [2020]
    Keywords : Hong Kong; Foreign Domestic Worker; Filipino; Caregiving; Abuse; Exploitation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Today, an increasing portion of the world's population is moving from one country to another every year to work. In recent years there has been a feminisation of labour migration where women from developing countries respond to shortages in care work in developed countries, as domestic workers. READ MORE

  5. 19. Coping with malaria : Experiences of strategies for prevention and treatment in a village in Uganda

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Miljövetenskap

    Author : Linn Jansson Öhlén; [2020]
    Keywords : Malaria prevention; Treatment seeking; Mosquito net use; Rural Uganda; Political Ecology of Health; Human Agency; Healthcare System;

    Abstract : Few studies regarding treatment seeking behaviour related to Malaria have been conducted in Uganda, and most of the studies regarding use of mosquito nets that have been conducted are quantitative. There is thus a need for qualitative studies for a deeper understanding of the complex issue of coping with malaria in a resource limited setting. READ MORE

  6. 20. The Labour-market Experiences of Skilled African Women in Sweden : The Case of Kenyan Women

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Fortune Chanelle Mugororoka; [2020]
    Keywords : Labor market segmentation; migrant women; uncertainty; precarious work; highly skilled; intersectionality; dualism.;

    Abstract : The study sought to understand the labour-market experiences of Kenyan women living in Swedenfrom a precarity standpoint. Specifically, from the point of view of uncertainty and vulnerability ofAfrican migrants workers in the labor market. READ MORE