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- Bahram, Somayeh, et al.
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Whey Protein Concentrate Edible Film Activated with Cinnamon Essential Oil
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Food Processing and Preservation. - : Hindawi Limited. - 0145-8892 .- 1745-4549. ; 38:3, s. 1251-1258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An active protein‐based film was developed by incorporating cinnamon essential oil (CEO) into whey protein concentrate (WPC) at a level of 0.8 and 1.5% v/v. The effects of CEO on microstructure, physical, mechanical and antimicrobial properties of the films were evaluated. Adding CEO to the WPC matrix decreased the water vapor permeability of the films and water solubility by 38.03 and 29.4%, respectively. The films containing CEO also displayed lower affinity to water; the contact angle increased up to 89.61% in 1.5% CEO concentration. Films containing CEO showed notable antibacterial activity against both gram‐positive and gram‐negative strains, and exhibited good inhibitory effect on the studied fungi. However, CEO containing films showed a heterogeneous cracked structure which decreased their tensile strength. This combination of the results confirmed good potential to the film for application in food packaging.
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- Eliassi, Barzoo, 1978-
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A stranger in my homeland : The politics of belonging among young people with Kurdish backgrounds in Sweden
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines how young people with Kurdish backgrounds form their identity in Sweden with regards to processes of inclusion and exclusion. It also sheds light on the ways these young people deal with ethnic discrimination and racism. Further, the study outlines the importance of these social processes for the discipline of social work and the ways social workers can work with disadvantaged and marginalized groups and endorse their struggle for social justice and full equal citizenship beyond racist and discriminatory practices. The empirical analysis is built on interviews with 28 young men and women with Kurdish backgrounds in Sweden. Postcolonial theory, belonging and identity formation constitute the central conceptual framework of this study. The young people referred to different sites in which they experienced ethnic discrimination and stigmatization. These experiences involved the labor market, mass media, housing segregation, legal system and school system. The interviewees also referred to the roles of ‘ordinary’ Swedes in obstructing their participation in the Swedish society through exclusionary discourses relating to Swedish identity. The interviewees’ life situation in Sweden, sense of ethnic discrimination as well as disputes over identity making with other young people with Middle-Eastern background are among the most important reasons for fostering strong Kurdish nationalist sentiments, issues that are related to the ways they can exercise their citizenship rights in Sweden and how they deal with exclusionary practices in their everyday life. The study shows that the interviewees respond to and resist ethnic discrimination in a variety of ways including interpersonal debates and discussions, changing their names to Swedish names, strengthening differences between the self and the other, violence, silence and deliberately ignoring racism. They also challenged and spoke out against the gendered racism that they were subjected to in their daily lives due to the paternalist discourse of ”honor-killing”. The research participants had been denied an equal place within the boundary of Swedishness partly due to a racist postcolonial discourse that valued whiteness highly. Paradoxically, some interviewees reproduced the same discourse through choosing to use it against black people, Africans, newly-arrived Kurdish immigrants (”imports”), ”Gypsies” and Islam in order to claim a modern Kurdish identity as near to whiteness as possible. This indicates the multiple dimensions of racism. Those who are subjected to racism and ethnic discrimination can be discriminatory and reproduce the racist discourse. Despite unequal power relations, both dominant and minoritized subjects are all marked by the postcolonial condition in structuring subjectivities, belonging and identification.
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- Jönsson, Jessica H., 1981-, et al.
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Fishing for development : A question for social work
- 2012
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Ingår i: International Social Work. - : Sage Publications. - 0020-8728 .- 1461-7234. ; 55:4, s. 504-521
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the consequences of the European Union’s fishing agreements with a few African countries for individuals in local communities. The empirical results show that European fishing in African waters has destructive consequences for local fishing communities and leads to increasing migration from fishing communities to Europe where immigrants are facing increasing discrimination. It is argued that social work should consider new global transformations and build global alliances in order to fight against structural inequalities and improve individual life chances.
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- Jönsson, Jessica H., 1981-
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Localised Globalities and Social Work : Contemporary Challenges
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Recent global and structural transformations, a West-centric development agenda and the triumph of neoliberal politics have led to destructive consequences for many local communities and individual life chances. The global dominance of the West-centric development agenda, with its roots in the colonial past, has created uneven developments and an unjust world in which Western countries continue to gain advantages and increase their prosperity. Although a minority elite in many non-Western countries share the same interests as Western countries and their global organs, the majority of people in these countries are suffering from increasing socioeconomic inequalities. As a result of the dogmatic belief in a singular and West-centric modernity and its practices, many problems are considered to be the result of non-Western countries’ inabilities to complete the project of modernity in accordance with Western blueprints. This has also influenced social work as a global and modern profession. Social problems are often individualised and the reasons behind many inequalities are increasingly related to non-Western people’s individual shortcomings and traditional cultural backgrounds. In Western and non-Western countries equally are the neoliberal structural and institutional transformations ignored and social problems of individuals and families defined as a matter of wrong and deviant actions and choices.The main objective of the dissertation, which is constituted of four articles and an overall introduction and summary, is to examine the consequences of recent neoliberal globalisation based on the belief in a single and West-centric modernity and development agenda and their consequences for social work facing increasing global inequalities. The following research questions have guided the work: ‘How can social work play an effective role in combating social problems and otherisation, marginalisation and increasing inequalities in a globalised world?’, ‘How does the global development agenda function within the local arenas of social work?’, ‘Are development projects improving people’s life chances in local communities in non-Western countries?’, ‘How informed and responsive are social workers towards the global context of local problems?’The work is based on a qualitative design using qualitative content analysis for analysing data collected through interviews, participant observations and official documents. The results show that irrespective of where and in which context social problems are appearing, since local problems often have global roots, a global perspective to local problems should be included in every practices of social work in order to develop new methods of practices in an increasingly globalised field of work. Destruction of local communities, forced migration from non-Western countries, and marginalisation of people with immigrant background in Western countries should not be considered only as local problems, but also as problems with their roots in global structural inequalities which reproduces global social problems with local consequences.It is argued that social work should consider the dilemmas and problems connected to the taken for granted West-centric theories, understandings and practices of social work in order to develop new methods of practices for combating social problems, marginalisation and increasing inequalities in a globalised world. Such a position includes practicing multilevel social work, social work in global alliances beyond the division of East and West, and mobilisation against neoliberalism and the retreat of the welfare state. This requires critical standpoints against the relationship between the global context of the neoliberal ideology and practices in a Western-dominated and postcolonial world and the daily practices of social work.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Det sociala arbetets dilemma och globala roll
- 2012
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Ingår i: Personlig och professionell utveckling inom socionomutbildningen. - Östersund : Mittuniversitetet. - 9789187103346 ; , s. 9-16
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Exkludering, globala utmaningar och kultursektorns ansvar
- 2012
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Ingår i: I valet och kvalet. - Stockholm : Riksantikvarieämnetet. - 9789172096127 - 9789172096134 ; , s. 67-74
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Riksantikvarieämbetet kraftsamlar kring området värdering och urval. Det behövs mer kunskap om hur kulturarvens värden tas tillvara i arbetet för utvecklingen av ett hållbart samhälle med goda livsmiljöer. Den här boken lyfter angelägna frågor kring kulturarv och kulturarvsaktiviteters värden.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Förlorade visioner
- 2012
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Ingår i: i&m invandrare & minoriteter. - 1404-6857. ; :1, s. 24-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I den växande marginaliseringens bakvatten ökar kriminalitet och motsättningar. Men i stället för att förändra de strukturer som skapar ojämlika villkor i samhället, vill politikerna stävja symtomen genom en ökad polisnärvaro.
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- Kamali, Masoud, 1956-
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Integration och makt
- 2011. - 1
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Ingår i: Att bilda ett samhälle. - : Föreningen för folkbildningsforskning. - 9789163385575 ; , s. 93-105
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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