During recent years, Sweden has received the largest amount of refugees relative to its population among all OECD countries, posing new challenges to integrating those refugees in the labour market. Integration strategies, as well as outcomes of labour market integration, vary between municipalities. This thesis examines causes that can explain the variation in refugees’ local labour market integr

Over the years Donald Trump has made several controversial statements regarding women. Despite that, 42% of all American women who voted in the 2016 election, voted for him. This study examined what it was that made women vote for him. The method used was qualitative, and to collect material, interviews with six women, who voted for Trump, were conducted. General information on voting behavior amo

With this qualitative case study I intended to explain the power change in Egypt 2013 and characterize whether it was a revolution or military coup. I aimed to do this by answering two questions of “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be explained?” and “How can the power change in Egypt 2013 be characterized, revolution or military coup?”. In this study I disclosed Samuel Huntington’s theo

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine how Swedish party leaders from the three biggest parties talk about the collective identities “women” and “immigrants” in their 2016 speeches from “Almedalsveckan”, the main political event in Sweden. By relating and contrasting these two groupings towards each other, I will also scrutinise whether an exclusion of “immigrant women” takes place. My anal

Straffrättens lagtext är könsneutral, men inte utan undantag. Ett undantag är grov kvinnofridskränkning som tillsammans med grov fridskränkning stadgas i BrB 4 kap. 4a §. Skillnaden mellan fridskränkningsbrotten är att grov kvinnofridskränkning har ett förbestämt könskrav på gärningspersonen och brottsoffret samt ställer krav på deras relation. Gärningspersonen, en man, och brottsoffret, en kvinnaCriminal law is gender neutral in its written construction, but there are exceptions. One of those exceptions is gross violation of women’s integrity. Its sibling provision is called gross violation of integrity, which is gender neutral. The difference between the two provisions is that the relation of the perpetrator and the victim in gross violation of women’s integrity is predetermined in terms

This thesis have examined the Region of Skåne, and its work within the EU. The analysis unit in focus is the Skåne European Office, which is the representation office of the region in Brussels. The aim of the thesis has been to examine their lobbying and networking in Brussels. The question asked is: “How does the region of Skåne exercise their lobbying and networking through their office in Bruss

Ontological security has for the last ten years emerged as a fruitful analytical tool to construe political movement by understanding the individual subject as in the need for a coherent and secure self-identity. Three articles with different views on how the individual subject is understood has recently been published. They criticise common assumptions within the field of ontological security. T

Why are there only 21% female politicians in the highest decision-making body, the Parliamentary Assembly, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, when there has been established a law that requires a 40% quota of gender representation in these positions? Because of all the laws and regulating documents that have been determined by the state to improve the gender inequality issue, it can fairly be claimed th

In 2004, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland (the DHSSPS) was ordered by the Court of Appeal to produce guidelines for healthcare professionals on the legal framework surrounding abortion in the region. The process, which came to last eleven long years, has been one characterised by intense struggle over meaning and been the main political battleground w

2015 was a tough year for the Swedish government and especially the Social Democrats in Sweden. This essay examines what caused the establishment of border controls by looking at the Social Democrats with the help of two theories concerning party strategies. The paper is based on, in addition to the theories, interviews with social democratic members of the parliament. The featured perspectives an

This paper examines the changes in communication about migration policy for Sweden's three largest political parties; Moderaterna, Socialdemokraterna and Sverigedemokraterna. The purpose whit this essay is to find out if the communication of Moderaterna and Socialdemokraterna has become more similar to the communication of Sverigedemokraterna regarding migration policy. I have examined posts f

Social inequalities is an intergenerational phenomenon where parents often transfer their socioeconomic status to their children. One major factor in the inheritance of socioeconomic status is education. In this study student grants and student loans are investigated to see if they can effect the recruitment of different social groups to tertiary education. Denmark, with a higher level of student

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the Swedish non-governmental aid organization We Effect affects their partner organizations in Paraguay’s possibilities to self-determination in the framework of their relationship. The question asked is “ How does We Effects aid cooperation in Paraguay affect their local partner organizations’ possibilities to self-determination? ”. Due to the inte

Social enterprises constitute highly relevant new actors, especially in the area of welfare provision. The gradual establishment of social enterprise landscapes has generally been considered favourably by policy makers and welfare managers. However, little research investigates the influencing factors that shape their evolution. This thesis explores the case of a British social enterprise’s – the

Why is Sweden plagued the most of right-wing terror and violence in comparison to its Nordic neighbors? This thesis explores the possible motive and opportunity for right-wing terror and violence between 1990 and 2015, by using new empirical data provided from the Center for Research and Extremism (C-REX). The cases of Sweden and Denmark are scrutinized through the lens of their respective economi

ILO 169 – Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention - is an international treaty that deals exclusively with the rights of indigenous peoples. Sweden is a country that normally commits to human rights and international treaties. However, it is still one of the countries that has not ratified ILO 169. By conducting a critical discourse analysis with a postcolonial approach, this study problematizes

In this essay a discourse analysis, inspired by Michel Foucault, is applied on the Swedish social democratic party’s policies on employment. Specifically, the feasibility conditions of the discourse are examined – that is, why employment is problematized today. The purpose of the essay is to make visible and analyze conceptions within the discourse which are seldom questioned. Policy documents o

The aim of the study is to evaluate how the Swedish Government has been acting in the case of the Moroccan child migrants. By using international and national conventions and goals in migration politics a framework of normative and descriptive guidelines is created to the evaluation. With the background that the Swedish government has been accused for violating several articles of human rights in

This study uses Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory to explore how ethnic identities are constructed by the Swedish Left party. The purpose is to examine if there is a political force that can resist ethnic nationalist mobilizations. A hypothesis is also formulated in the study to test if Left wing parties construct ethnic majority’s ethnic identity in constraining terms and the identity’s of min

Denna uppsats studerar skiljeförfarandemekanismen i Convention of the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID-konventionen) och hur den används i bilaterala investeringsavtal (BITs). Ämnet analyseras utifrån Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL), vars synsätt utgår från att det finns en strukturell orättvisa i folkrätten och en dominans av This thesis examines the arbitration mechanism of the Convention of the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States (the ICSID convention) and how it is used in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). This is done from a Third World Approach to International Law (TWAIL) perspective. The main hypothesis of TWAIL is that inequality is embedded in international law, w