Essays about: "strukturell rasism"

Found 3 essays containing the words strukturell rasism.

  1. 1. Now you see it, now you don’t - A literature-based study on identifying normative whiteness in relation to structural racism and social determinants of health

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicin

    Author : Laura Voutilainen; [2019-08-01]
    Keywords : whiteness; critical race and whiteness studies; social determinants of health; public health; structural racism; vithet; kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier; hälsans sociala bestämningsfaktorer; folkhälsovetenskap; strukturell rasism;

    Abstract : Background: Structural racism is increasingly regarded as a central issue for disparities in social determinants of health. Eliminating such structure can be seen as central for achieving racial health equity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Poverty-based discrimination - Does International Human Rights Law care?

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

    Author : Julia Eriksson; [2019]
    Keywords : public international law; discrimination; equality; poverty; human rights; international human rights law; non-discrimination; substantive equality; socioeconomic status; indirect discrimination; affirmative action; poverty-based discrimination; discrimination grounds; status-based discrimination; suspect grounds; inequality; de facto equality; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : I en värld där inget tycks kunna stoppa de växande ekonomiska klyfterna ifrågasätts även relevansen av internationella regleringar av mänskliga rättigheter. Trots att jämlikhet och icke-diskriminering utgör grunden för mänskliga rättigheter så verkar dessa regelverk oförmögna att adressera ekonomiskt betonad ojämlikhet. READ MORE

  4. 3. Neither victim nor fetish : ‘Asian’ women and the effects of racialization in the Swedish context

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om migration, etnicitet och samhälle

    Author : Mavis Hooi; [2018]
    Keywords : racialization; racism; Asian women; Sweden; Western context; Nordic context; panethnicity; stereotypes; visuality; coercive mimeticism; epistemic injustice; narratives; Critical Race Theory; intersectionality; everyday racism; structural racism; rasifiering; rasism; asiatiska kvinnor; Sverige; västerländsk kontext; nordisk kontext; panetnicitet; stereotyper; visualitet; epistemisk orättvisa; kritisk rasteori; intersektionalitet; vardagsrasism; strukturell rasism;

    Abstract : People who are racialized in Sweden as ‘Asian’—a panethnic category—come from different countries or ethnic backgrounds and yet, often face similar, gender-specific forms of discrimination which have a significant impact on their whole lives. This thesis centres women who are racialized as 'Asian', focusing on how their racialization affects, and is shaped by, their social, professional and intimate relationships, and their interactions with others—in particular, with white majority Swedes, but also other ethnic minorities. READ MORE