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This is an inquiry into how aspects of the present human reality came to being and thereby also an investigation into limitations and potentialities of this “present”. An important argument in this essay is that there exists a mutually affective relationship between culture and politics and that this relationship implies both possibilities and constraints. With this in mind I try to critically inv

This thesis examines the experiences of asylum seekers in Sweden with the Swedish asylum process. Using an ethnographic research approach, asylum seekers are asked what their main issues of concern are during the asylum process? Understanding their experiences will help social workers and volunteers to improve the support they offer to asylum seekers.

Food insecurity is a persistent challenge in the developing world, particularly the Sub-Saharan African region. Based on the latest report on the state of the World Food Insecurity, an estimate of 28% of the population in the Sub-Saharan Africa is recorded to be malnourished. This enduring challenge, therefore, requires further studies to shed light on the underlying causes of the problem and find

This thesis explores the experiences of international and domestic higher education students in the U.S. during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. By using an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach the aim of the thesis, in the first place, is concerned with students’ experience during national and global lockdowns with social distancing and isolation and, secondly, with the structural c

The use of peace narratives in order to delegitimize political opposition has been observed in electoral autocracies. One such case was in Kenya in 2013, which gave rise to the theory of peaceocracy. Peaceocracy is conceptualized as being made up of six components, namely a fragile peace, incumbents cast as peacekeepers, peace as a responsibility of the citizenry, delegitimization of certain issue

The field of international security has changed significantly during the last decades. New security issues has risen on the agenda, and the concept of human security has diverted the attention of security studies from an exclusively state-centric focus towards a broader comprehension of who should be protected, and from what. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate an aspect of such a novel s

Progress on Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education (SDG4) has been insufficient and knowledge of how it is implemented into domestic contexts remains limited. Using norm diffusion theory as a framework, this thesis is a comparative study of SDG4 implementation in five countries around the world. By analysing both the discursive and practical impact of SDG4, this thesis has studied if an

This thesis utilizes securitization theory in a comparative analysis of security discourses in both the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Peoples Republic of China by looking at how actors in both states frame and respond to security issues relating to the respective frontier regions of Khyber- pakhtun and Xinjiang The purpose of which has been to produce a paper addressing the complexities that ar

A Syllabus for SIMM09 Social Science: Evaluation Research: Theories and Methods, 7 Facul ty o f Soc ia l Sc ience Dnr S2013/252 A. Syllabus for SIMR41 Social Science: Internship, 30 credits, (Arbetslivspraktik 30 hp) Second cycle (A1F) This course was adopted by the Dean on September 4th 2013 in accordance with the delegation of authorities, reg.no S2012/60. This syllabus is valid from the autumn

https://www.graduateschool.sam.lu.se/sites/graduateschool.sam.lu.se/files/simr41_internship_30_credits.pdf - 2026-09-03

A Syllabus for SIMM09 Social Science: Evaluation Research: Theories and Methods, 7 Dnr Facul ty o f Soc ia l Sc ience Dnr S2013/252 A. Syllabus for SIMR42 Social Science: Internship, 15 credits, (Arbetslivspraktik 15 hp) Second cycle (A1F) This course was adopted by the Dean on September 4th 2013 in accordance with the delegation of authorities, reg.no S2012/60. This syllabus is valid from the aut

https://www.graduateschool.sam.lu.se/sites/graduateschool.sam.lu.se/files/simr42_internship_15_credits.pdf - 2026-09-03

The management of immigrants in the Basque region is an outlier among the administration of immigrants in democratic pollical communities. Basque autonomous Community government shows an unparallel handling of immigrants, particularly the irregular immigrants by institutionalizing policy that can diminish the effects of the restrictive Spain’s alien policy. The Basque policy has the objectives of

Myanmar is the scene of one of the longest on going conflicts in the world. Due to recent efforts at reforms and democratisation, Myanmar has come under the light of the media and the ethnic clashes have attracted more attention than they ever have in the past. This dissertation aims to examine the potential for conflict transformation to provide a solution to this intractable violence. Using a co

Barefoot doctor system is an important part of primary health care policy changes in China after the founding of New China, is a special viewpoint to study the special period of grassroots political change. Why medical care’s come into the sight of top leaders at that time? What does medical care system mean to modern state building? There may be a certain natural link between the body and the nat