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- Carlson, Marie, 1950
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“The immigrant woman” as problematic in the Swedish Welfare State - On categorizations and identity positions in policy, education and working life
- 2015
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In: Program: Abstracts: Gender and Education Association Conference 2015, 23-25 July, 2015 - University of Roehampton.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- “The immigrant woman” as problematic in the Swedish Welfare State - On categorizations and identity positions in policy, education and working life Abstract This contribution scrutinizes the troubled positions, borders and boundaries of “the immigrant woman” through Swedish language programs for immigrants (SFI) and also through policy texts and how the category “immigrant” including “the immigrant woman” is constituted and negotiated in relation to the labour market. Structural conditions as well as agency are not always problematized. Examples will be used from the past when SFI started in the 1960s and from the present – from a debate on troubled positions that is still ongoing. A sociocultural perspective and a postcolonial point of departure are used. Since its inception SFI has been influenced by and interacts with shifting economic conditions and changes in immigration policy, education and labour issues. Gendered, culturalized and ethnified – but not classed – discourses are discerned during SFI's entire story. SFI can be seen as an arena in which the construction of who is an immigrant and who is a Swede is being played out – together with fostering attitudes. In particular, a gender-equality discourse is linked to Swedish norms: an ethnocentric discourse that positions both men and women who migrate to Sweden as more tradition-bound and less gender-equal than men and women born in Sweden. The traditional and culturally bound immigrant woman is emphasized strongly in dominant discourses; issues such as discrimination are hardly ever addressed. The empirical data consist of policy documents, interviews and debates. Other research relevant to the critical discussion has also been reviewed. The overall intersectional discussion is related to cultural, migration, ethnicity and gender studies.
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- Jensen, Mikael, 1969
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Ledarskapskompetens : Ledarskapskompetens - leda, lära och utveckla
- 2022
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Kan vem som helst bli ledare? Kan den som redan är ledare bli en bättre ledare? Det finns inte några enkla svar på dessa frågor. Utgångspunkten i den här boken är emellertid att förmågan att leda inte är något medfött utan något man lär sig genom att utveckla och förfina en uppsättning mer eller mindre nödvändiga kompetenser. Detta är också grunden i ett kompetensperspektiv på ledarskap. I boken presenterar författaren ett antal kompetenser som har betydelse för ledarskap, som till exempel kommunikationskompetens och relationskompetens. Sammantaget handlar dessa kompetenser om att förstå sig själv, sina medarbetare och sin verksamhet i ett större sammanhang. Boken är indelad i fyra delar. Del 1 lägger grunden för den ledarskapsmodell som boken är uppbyggd kring. Del 2 och 3 ger en fördjupad beskrivning av de olika kompetenser som utgör modellens huvud- och bikomponenter. I del 4 presenteras jämförelser med andra ledarskapsteorier samt konkreta exempel på hur modellen kan tillämpas i olika verksamheter och situationer. Boken riktar sig till blivande och verksamma ledare. Syftet är att ge läsaren dels en djupare förståelse för vad det innebär att vara ledare, dels hjälp i att utöva ledarskapet.
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- Jensen, Mikael, Dr, 1969-
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Ledarskapskompetens - leda, lära och utveckla
- 2022. - 1
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Ledarskapskompetens - leda, lära och utveckla - övrigt, Svenska, 2022Författare: Mikael JensenVälj antal 426kr Spara till önskelista Skickas inom 1-3 vardagar Kan vem som helst bli ledare? Kan den som redan är ledare bli en bättre ledare? Det finns inte några enkla svar på dessa frågor. Utgångspunkten i den här boken är emellertid att förmågan att leda inte är något medfött utan något man lär sig genom att utveckla och förfina en uppsättning mer eller mindre nödvändiga kompetenser. Detta är också grunden i ett kompetensperspektiv på ledarskap.I boken presenterar författaren ett antal kompetenser som har betydelse för ledarskap, som till exempel kommunikationskompetens och relationskompetens. Sammantaget handlar dessa kompetenser om att förstå sig själv, sina medarbetare och sin verksamhet i ett större sammanhang.Boken är indelad i fyra delar. Del 1 lägger grunden för den ledarskapsmodell som boken är uppbyggd kring. Del 2 och 3 ger en fördjupad beskrivning av de olika kompetenser som utgör modellens huvud- och bikomponenter. I del 4 presenteras jämförelser med andra ledarskapsteorier samt konkreta exempel på hur modellen kan tillämpas i olika verksamheter och situationer.Boken riktar sig till blivande och verksamma ledare. Syftet är att ge läsaren dels en djupare förståelse för vad det innebär att vara ledare, dels hjälp i att utöva ledarskapet.
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- Mac Innes, Hanna, 1980, et al.
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Social Exclusion
- 2023
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In: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 ; , s. 87-98
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.
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- Kotze, Shelley, 1986, et al.
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The role of trust in street-level organisations within integration projects
- 2019
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In: The 17th Annual ESPANET Conference: “Social citizenship, migration and conflict – Equality and opportunity in European welfare states”, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis, 5–7 September 2019, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Swedish immigrant integration holds a unique contradiction in that it is lauded as having the ‘best’ policy in Europe (MIPEX), but its outcomes are amongst some of the poorest (Eurostats). Currently, responsibility of implementing integration policy is held by national agencies at the macro-level. Such a structure, however, is likely to overshadow what goes on at the micro-level, an oversight which is also reflected within current research. By adopting a street-level organisation (SLOs) approach, this research sets out to explore the gap between formal policy provision and measurable outcomes, where trust is situated as a critical dimension within the process of integration that is yet to be captured by other means. This presentation explores trust as a reason for the disparity between policy and outcomes, with the help of a case study that involves an SLO situated in Gothenburg; more specifically, a suburb characterised by a 90% immigrant population, and its unexploited social capital. To resolve this issue Gothenburg embarked on a four-year EU sponsored project concerned with labour market integration. Under this umbrella, a sub-project has been launched to engage 500 immigrants visiting an SLO within green business development as a means to integration. However, while initially promising, several intricacies surrounding the studied SLO, including its structure, history and leadership, has brought forth a number of worrying insights that have severed trust-building and impeded future work. Previous studies exploring the success of projects at the street level have successfully used qualitative methods, including reflexive non-participant observation. In our research we have used field notes collected over a six-month period from the project’s inception, supplemented by time lines of interactions and stakeholder engagements. The data have been coded to decipher key incidents and exchanges where trust has played a pivotal role in the dynamics between stakeholders, and for the direction of the project, as such. Given the responsibility that SLOs currently hold within immigrant integration, the personal street-level interactions from which (dis)trust evolves need to be regarded as significantly important. Our findings suggest that trust is greatly underestimated within SLOs, with distrust disrupting the success of the integration process, often resulting in project failure. This presentation will make recommendations as to how a SLO approach can contribute to trust-building, which will go some way in addressing existing ambiguities and inconsistencies between policy and outcomes concerning immigrant integration.
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- Viktorelius, Martin, et al.
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Energy efficiency at sea : An activity theoretical perspective on operational energy efficiency in maritime transport
- 2019
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In: Energy Research & Social Science. - : Elsevier. - 2214-6296 .- 2214-6326. ; 52, s. 1-9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The mitigation of emission from shipping will require improvements in energy efficiency. In order to achieve this, sociotechnical changes are required, affecting all stakeholders within the shipping sector. Ship crews and their everyday work practices will play an especially important role in the transformation of the sector. It is therefore crucial to understand how new energy efficient technologies and practices are being introduced and enacted onboard ships. The case study reported in this paper investigates an attempt to improve the operational energy efficiency in a shipping company that was made by installing an energy monitoring system and introducing an energy saving policy onboard the ships in the fleet. The analytical framework in this paper is inspired by cultural-historical activity theory which is suggested as a novel and useful practice-based approach in energy studies. It is used in analyzing the contradictions and tensions in the work practices onboard the ships that preceded and followed the implementation of the energy monitoring system and energy saving policy. The empirical results revealed how the initial demand for operational energy efficiency and the subsequent introduction of the new monitoring system and policy gave rise to tensions in the existing activity systems onboard which crew members then tried, but did not always manage, to reconcile. It is concluded that a better understanding of the sociotechnical change processes, associated with organizational energy conservation and energy management, can be achieved if the situated paradoxes of practitioners’ everyday practices are examined.
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- Dymitrow, Mirek
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Understanding great social challenges of today through the lens of cultural contingents
- 2019
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In: 70th Anniversary Symposium of the Macedonian Geographic Society: “New Trends in Geography”, 3–4 October 2019, Ohrid, North Macedonia.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- We live in times of rapid changes and unpredictability. Great social challenges of today, such as free access to clean water, food, air, health care and education, no longer come one by one (Agenda 2030). What makes them great is their ever-greater entanglement in one other and across multiple levels, including landscapes, regimes and niches. To this background, a major challenge facing many countries today is how to successfully address issues of interlocking problems of unsustainability caused by cultural contingents. Yet, understanding of the ways how culture influences adaptation to sustainable development is still not fully understood, amidst a plethora of literature on systems thinking and complexity science. By resorting to insights from an eclectic pool of knowledge, this presentation seeks more human-centered explanations for the retention of undesired ways of thinking. This is done be exploring the concept of ‘modern outpost of unsustainability’, i.e. a locality exhibiting a complex web of social entanglements that cause and maintain several dilemmas at once. By focusing on the formation of individual mindsets through various cultural carriers of meaning, this study wishes to better understand ways in which particular discourses and social mechanisms may create lock-ins of unsustainability, and what socio-material effects such lock-ins may incur upon institution building, technical development and self-governance.
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- Julia, Simonson, et al.
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Ungleichheit sozialer Teilhabe im Alter
- 2013
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In: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (Print). - : Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. - 0948-6704 .- 1435-1269. ; 46:5, s. 410-416
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Unter dem Leitbild des aktiven Alters wird die Aufrechterhaltung umfassender sozialer Teilhabe über die Lebensphase Alter diskutiert. „Gutes“ Altern im Sinne dieses Aktivitätsparadigmas wandelt sich vom Ergebnis sozialer Ungleichheit zunehmend zu einem ihrer Ausgangspunkte. Auf Basis des Deutschen Alterssurveys (DEAS) 2008 und 2011 wird die Teilhabe über Ehrenamt und Bildungsaktivitäten unter Berücksichtigung sozialstruktureller und sozialräumlicher Aspekte sozialer Ungleichheit in den Blick genommen. Die soziale Teilhabe erweist sich als sozialstrukturell und sozialräumlich ungleich verteilt. Personen aus unteren sozialen Schichten gehen deutlich seltener einer Bildungsaktivität nach oder engagieren sich ehrenamtlich. Zudem ist die soziale Teilhabe bei Personen in wirtschaftlich schwachen Regionen deutlich geringer als bei Personen in wirtschaftlich starken. Nachteilige Effekte kumulieren sich, wenn in einer Region begrenzte individuelle Ressourcen und schlechte ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen vorliegen. Maßnahmen zur Förderung sozialer Teilhabe sollten darauf abzielen, auf lokaler Ebene Gelegenheiten für Engagement und Bildungsaktivität zu schaffen, um die Teilhabechancen von Personen aus unteren sozialen Schichten nachhaltig zu verbessern.
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- Becevic, Zulmir
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Utsatthetens röster
- 2015
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Den här avhandlingen handlar om ungdomar i samhäilsvård och deras livsberättelser, om erfarenheter av att växa upp under kaotiska livsvillkor som karaktäriseras av psykiska problem, trasiga relationer, och andra fotmer av social utsatthet. Syftet är att undersöka hur ungdomar som är placerade i samhällsvård använder sina erfarenheteter för att skapa mening och sammanhang kring sig själva och sina liv. Genom att fokusera på röster, interaktioner och emotioner synliggörs livsvillkor samtidigt som kunskapen om ungdomar i samhällsvård och deras livserfarenheter fördjupas. Ungdomarnas berättelser analyseras i relation till identitet, relationer och emotioner, och framtiden. Avhandlingen tar avstamp i en interaktionistisk och erfarenhetsorienterad ansats, som ger ontologiskt företräde åt den tolkande, meningsskapande, kännande och betiittande individen och individens upplevelse av den sociala verkligheten. Avhandlingen bygger på empiriskt material insamlat genom semistrukturerade livsberättelseintervjuer på fyra samhällsvårdande institutioner. Sammanlagt genomfördes 20 enskilda imervjuer med 13 deltagare, sex tjejer och sju killar i åldrarna 13-21. Analysen har fokuserat på tolkningar av interaktioner som berättelsernas grundläggande byggstenar, vilka på olika sätt spelat en viktig roll i berättarnas syn på sig själva i relation till en bredare social kontext. Analysen visar hur erfatenheter kopplade till problem och avvikelser görs till dominerande erfarenheter genom vilka berättarna förstår sig själva och sina liv. Dessa berättelsers övergripande funktion är att skapa ordning som väger upp mot den sociala oordning som berättarna på ett existentiellt plan upplever att de befinner sig i och behöver förklara och motivera. Resultaten tyder på att tillvaron i institutionell kontext tenderar all förstärka synen på en själv och ens liv som problematiskt och avvikande. Detta ses som en inbyggd motsättning i den problemhmterancle verksamhet vars övergripa nde syfte är att kompensera for och "arbeta bort" problem. Analysen visar att tillvaron i en institutionell kontext istället förstärker orinteringen mot erfarenheter av problematisk karaktär. Andra resultat är att berättelser om relationer får sin huvudsakliga karaktäristik från negativa, emotionella erfarenheter, vilket pekar på vikten av att etablera tillitsfulla relationer i utformningen av hjälpinsatser. Slutligen, berättelser om framtida planer och förväntningar handlar i huvudsak om anpassning till traditionella normer. Livet efter samhällsvården handlar om att passa in i vad som definierns som samtidens vedertagna syn på normalitet och ordning.
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- Cromdal, Jakob, 1969-, et al.
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Working towards trouble : Some categorial resources for accomplishing disputes in a correctional youth facility
- 2012
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In: Disputes in Everyday Life. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 9781780528762 ; , s. 141-163
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Volume 15 of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth investigates the interactional procedures used by children and young people as disputes arise in varying contexts of their everyday life. Disputes are a topic of angst and anxiety for children, young people and adults alike, and yet are important times for interactional matters to be addressed. A particular intention of the book is its ethnomethodological focus, bringing a fine-grained analysis and understanding to disputes and related interactional matters. Such analysis highlights the in situ competency of children and young people as they manage their social relationships and disputes to offer insight into how children arrange their social lives within the context of school, home, neighbourhood, correctional, club and after school settings. This volume offers a contemporary understanding of the relational matters of childrens peer cultures to better understand and address the complex nature of children and young peoples everyday lives in todays society.
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- Aslan Akay, Pinar, Fil. Dr. 1986-
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Återvändande och (åter)integration för barn i familj : En systematisk kunskapsöversikt
- 2024
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Det övergripande syftet med denna kunskapsöversikt har varit att sammanställa forskning om återvändande och (åter)integration för barn i familj, med fokus på utbildning, sociokulturell (åter)integration och hälsa, samt möjligheter och hinder för en framgångsrik återvändande- och (åter)integrationsprocess. Målet med kunskapsöversikten är att bidra till ökad beredskap för samhällsaktörer i Sverige som är involverade i återvändandeprocessen för barn i familj. En sådan beredskap kan öka barn och familjers möjligheter att förbereda sig och mobilisera sina resurser inför ett återvändande, och ge barnen bättre förutsättningar till anpassning efter återvändandet.Att upprätthålla en ordnad och säker migration samt förmå individer som har ett av- eller utvisningsbeslut att återvända är en viktig fråga för många europeiska länder idag, inklusive Sverige. Men asyl- och återvändandeprocessen behöver också genomsyras av ett barnrättsperspektiv, vilket svenska myndigheter som är involverade i denna process har uppmärksammat och arbetat med under en längre tid. I detta avseende har barn i familj, det vill säga barn som ansökt om uppehållstillstånd tillsammans med sina vårdnadshavare, identifierats som en särskilt sårbar grupp. Forskning visar att barn i familj ofta känner sig oinformerade, och de beskriver sin egen delaktighet i asyl- och återvändandeprocessen som låg. Det kan leda till känslor av chock och uppryckthet i samband med återvändandet, vilket kan påverka barnens psykosociala hälsa på både kort och på lång sikt. Forskning inom området visar även på stora utmaningar för barn att integreras i skolan efter ett återvändande. Översikten visar att språksvårigheter, en ny utbildningskontext, bristen på kompetens hos skolpersonal samt administrativa och ekonomiska hinder kan hämma barnens möjligheter att tillgodogöra sig utbildning i återvändarlandet. Barn i familj kan även utsättas för mobbing och utanförskap av både jämnåriga och vuxna på grund av sin status som återvändare, en brist på sociokulturell kunskap eller bristande språkkunskaper. Sociala nätverk kan i detta avseende fungera som ett skydd, till exempel i form av jämnåriga släktingar i återvändarlandet som kan vägleda och släppa in de återvändande barnen i den sociala gemenskapen.Kunskapsöversikten har identifierat ett antal kunskapsluckor. Det råder till exempel en stor brist på forskning som följer barnen, och som undersöker hur barnens situation utvecklar sig över tid. Den begränsade forskning som finns på detta område indikerar att några av de problem som observeras initialt vad gäller bristen på sociokulturell tillhörighet och social integration kan försvinna eller mildras över tid. Det går emellertid inte att dra några slutsatser om hur en utveckling över tid påverkas av andra faktorer, såsom levnadsförhållanden och tillgången till resurser. Det finns också otillräcklig kunskap om hur olika bakgrundsfaktorer, såsom kön, ålder och socioekonomisk bakgrund inverkar på barnens (åter)integration efter ett återvändande. De fåtal studier som finns i området pekar på att vissa grupper kan vara särskilt utsatta innan och efter ett återvändande, till exempel flickor samt barn i yngre och övre tonåren.Med utgångspunkt i de resultat som presenteras ges en rad rekommendationer. Ett exempel på förslag är att det föreligger ett behov av att utveckla och förtydliga roll- och ansvarsfördelningen för olika myndighetsaktörer i asyl- och återvändarprocessen för barn i familj, och att det bör övervägas huruvida en myndighet kan ges ett helhetsansvar för denna grupp. Ett annat förslag är att kvalitativa riktlinjer samt metod- och arbetsstöd för myndighetspersonal som kommer i kontakt med barn i familj under återvändandeprocessen utformas. Information och delaktighetsarbetet med barn i familj behöver också utvecklas, samt vara barnanpassat och individualiseras, eftersom barns situation kan se olika ut beroende på faktorer som vistelsetid i mottagarlandet, kön, ålder, socioekonomisk bakgrund samt familjens nätverk och resurser efter återvändandet.
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- Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-
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Dangerous, Chaotic and Unpleasant : Crowd Theory Today
- 2014
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In: lo Squaderno. - : losquaderno@professionaldreamers.net. - 1973-9141. ; :33, s. 9-12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Stefan Jonsson reviews the traditional image conveyed by crowd theory – the crowd as ‘dangerous, chaotic and unpleasant’ – stressing the continuing and even renewed importance of crowd action today. According to Jonsson, if crowds inevitably raise the issue of the foundations of power, it is because their act is, in the horizon of modernity, an essentially politically constituent one.
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- Qamar, Azher Hameed
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Social Dimensions of Resilience and Climate Change: A Rapid Review
- 2022
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Climate change and its associated challenges may have an impact on people and communities. Studies provide conceptual and empirical insight of the relationship between social capital and resilience. However, the social dimensions of resilience have received little attention in climate change research. This short article provides a rapid review of published studies that investigate the social dimensions of resilience in the context of climate change. A literature search in Scopus was undertaken for this rapid review, using the title search words "Social" AND "Resilience" AND "Climate." The search yielded 26 articles, of which I shortlisted 18 for review that were related to the social dimension of resilience. Based on the findings of the review, I grouped them into three categories: 1) social capital approach, 2) social psychological approach, and 3) right-based approach. The findings reveal a positive association between social capital and resilience, as well as the interconnectedness between bonding, bridging, and linking, which provide the structural foundation for social capital. The social psychological approach, on the other hand, is tightly linked to cognitive aspects of social capital (such as social identity, reciprocity, and shared knowledge of risk and responsibility) that contribute to collective psycho-social resilience. The third perspective is a human rights-based approach to understanding the social dimension of resilience with regard to equity and power while investigating the narratives that normalize inequality and marginalization. In the context of climate change, adaption strategies and resilience-building interventions should be theoretically grounded in the conceptualization of social resilience as a capacity-building process (with reference to agency, participation and empowerment). The bottom-up empirical investigation of social contracts, practices, and experiences using theoretical triangulation and an interdisciplinary research approach is proposed in this rapid review.
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- Rodin, Lika
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Frontiers of Neoliberalism : Well-Being and Social Management in Spaceflight
- 2024
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In: Zhurnal Issledovanii Sotsial'noi Politiki / The Journal of Social Policy Studies. - : National Research University, Higher School of Econoimics. - 1727-0634. ; 22:1, s. 103-118
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- Neoliberalism is increasingly shaping social policy and social management, encapsulating human subjectivity and emotionality under the guise of social well-being and exploiting these aspects of human life for profit-making purposes. The human sciences have developed various concepts of social well-being, including theories that seem to justify the neoliberal order. This study examines the strengths and limitations of a well-being theory associated with the field of positive psychology. I use the experience of the Russian-American cooperation in outer space – the Mir-Shuttle program (1994‒1997) – to establish the applicability of the selected well-being theory in the context of a demanding and dangerous environment. The study’s dataset comprises three types of sources, used on the principle of availability: biographical interviews with the program participants (NASA’s Shuttle-Mir Oral History Project), media interviews with Russian cosmonauts, and published autobiographies. A theory-driven thematic analysis was applied to process the data. The findings indicate that a broader contextualization is essential to explain regularities in the achieving of regimes of social coherence, integration, social realization, and contribution during long-term space missions. Cultural, political, organizational, and existential dimensions need to be considered. The ideal of collective empowerment, secured by mutual sharing, interconnection, and trust, might challenge the current imperative of disciplined self-promotion.
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- Wästerfors, David
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Violence : Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
- 2022
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. It outlines four ways of understanding violence:• Violence as situation: the tension that exists between category-driven and situational explanations. • Violence as speciality: the study of particularly violent actors, and how they may be understood by reference to childhood histories, technologies, institutions, culture, class, and gender. • Violence as politics: political violence and violent politics. • Violence as storytelling: representations of violence from a narrative perspective.Concluding with reflections on possible convergences between the four approaches and new directions for research, this book offers a unique and experimental approach to discussing and reconstructing the concept of violence. It is essential reading for criminologists, sociologists, and philosophers alike.
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- Haas, Tigran, 1969-
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Ethnic Conflict and the Right to Return of Limbo Disaporas : Multifaceted Reflections on the Case of BiH
- 2004
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In: Migration and Ethnic Studies (Migracijske i Etničke Teme). - Zagreb : Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies. - 1333-2546 .- 1848-9184. ; 20:1, s. 29-51
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the phenomenon of refugees and resettled persons in the process of forcedmigrations in the aftermath of man-made disasters. Although some of the ideas presented here couldhave wider application, the focus is on post-conflict zones within the former Yugoslavia, namely BiH.The paper uses the questions of ethnicity and nationalism within resettlement, dislocation and immigrationas a backdrop, into which the issue of globalization is also briefly reflected. The intention hereis not to cover a wide range of pressing topics, but simply to relate a number of issues arising in contemporarylarge-scale forced migrations to a resurgence of cultural specificity and ethnicized nationalismas counterpoints to globalization. The paper introduces the concept of “limbo diasporas” in the caseof Bosnian refugees in Sweden through reflection and linkage with the aforementioned concepts. Thepaper ends with some recommendations and open questions on social rehabilitation and ethnic healingas well as some general conclusions.
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- Almered Olsson, Gunilla, 1951, et al.
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Food systems sustainability - For whom and by whom? : An examination of different 'food system change' viewpoints
- 2018
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In: Development Research Conference 2018: “Rethinking development”, 22–23 August 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The United Nations identifies the food crisis as one of the primary overarching challenges facing the international community. Different stakeholders in the food system have widely different perspectives and interests, and challenging structural issues, such as the power differentials among them, remain largely unexamined. These challenges make rational discourse among food system actors from different disciplines, sectors and levels difficult. These challenges can often prevent them from working together effectively to find innovative ways to respond to food security challenges. This means that finding solutions to intractable and stuck issues, such as the food crisis often stall, not at implementation, but at the point of problem identification. Food system sustainability means very different things to different food system actors. These differences in no way undermine or discount the work carried out by these players. However, making these differences explicit is an essential activity that would serve to deepen theoretical and normative project outcomes. Would the impact and reach of different food projects differ if these differences were made explicit? The purpose of this initial part of a wider food system research project is not to search for difference or divergence, with the aim of critique, but rather to argue that by making these differences explicit, the overall food system project engagement will be made more robust, more inclusive and more encompassing. This paper starts with some discussion on the different food system perspectives, across scales, regions and sectors but focuses primarily on the design of processes used to understand these divergent and at times contradictory views of what a sustainable food system may be. This paper draws on ongoing work within the Mistra Urban Futures project, using the food system projects in cities as diverse as Cape Town, Manchester, Gothenburg and Kisumu as sites for this enquiry.
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- Björkenfeldt, Oscar
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Online Harassment Against Journalists : A Socio-Legal and Working-Life Study of the Challenges and Impacts in Swedish Journalism
- 2024
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Integrating socio-legal analysis and working life science, this compilation thesis aims to enhance the understanding of how the evolving digital landscape—particularly the rise of online harassment—influences journalism and its potential to foster healthy public discourse. Additionally, the thesis seeks to advance the field of socio-legal studies by examining the interplay between digital transformation, shifting norms, and the intersection of informal and formal social controls. Utilizing a triangulated mixed-method approach—comprised of a survey, Twitter data mining, and interviews with media managers—the empirical focus is on exploring the interplay between perceptions of legal conditions, manifestations of online harassment, the consequences of such harassment for journalists, and workplace dynamics in relation to increased external pressure on journalists and news organizations.The first paper assesses journalists' perspectives on the legal framework's effectiveness against unlawful online harassment, identifying a gap in protection and underscoring the need for enhanced legal resources. However, the empirical data also reveal that online harassment frequently occurs within the realm of the work environment rather than remaining solely a matter for criminal law. The second paper, through a sociopragmatic lens, examines online harassment on Twitter (X), revealing strategies that merge impoliteness, moral discourse, and anti-press rhetoric to negatively influence journalists and challenge professional credibility while also highlighting the paradoxical use of freedom of speech to suppress journalistic expression. The third paper, informed by institutional theory, analyzes how Swedish news organizations manage the psychosocial effects of online harassment, noting a focus on physical safety over mental strain and the need for a more holistic approach to harassment management. This paper aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the factors that contribute to resilience against self-censorship induced by online harassment, as well as the factors that exacerbate it, leading to withdrawal and reluctance among journalists.Overall, this thesis emphasizes the challenges facing the legal system and news organizations in addressing systematic efforts to undermine journalism's autonomy through online harassment disguised as free speech. It shows that such disorientation is intertwined with the emergence of new communication norms and the absence of effective (formal and informal) mechanisms for fostering healthy public discourse. It demonstrates that efforts to safeguard these public values—journalists' free speech and, in turn, freedom of information—are largely misdirected, with a heavy focus on criminal law rather than on building a resilient work environment within journalism. Accordingly, the thesis cements online harassment as a work environment issue, illustrating the importance of acknowledging this problem at the intersection of digital transformation, working life, and democratic values.
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- Cromdal, Jakob, 1969-
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Conversation analysis and emergency calls
- 2013
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In: The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. - Oxford, UK : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781405198431 ; , s. 982-985
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Calls for emergency assistance are operated by a range of organizations across the world, including local police authorities, medical institutions, and dedicated dispatch centers.
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- Cromdal, Jakob, 1969-, et al.
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‘‘SOS 112 what has occurred?’’ : Managing openings in children’s emergency calls
- 2012
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In: Discourse, Context & Media. - : Elsevier. - 2211-6958. ; 1:4, s. 183-202
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines the initial exchanges in calls to the Swedish emergency services, focusing on callers’ responses to the standardised opening phrase “SOS one one two, what has occurred?”. Comparisons across three age groups – children, teenagers and adults – revealed significant differences in caller behaviour. Whereas teenagers and adults offered reports of the incident, child callers were more prone to request dispatch of specific assistance units. This pattern was only observable when children were accompanied by an adult relative, which leads us to propose that child callers may be operating under prior adult instruction concerning how to request help. The second part of the analysis examines the local organisation of participants' actions, showing how turn-design and sequencing manifest the local concerns of the two parties. The analysis thus combines quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the ways through which the parties jointly produce an early sense of emergency incidents. These results are discussed in terms of children's agency and competence as informants granted to them by emergency operators, and how such competence ascriptions run against commonsense conceptualisations of children as less-than-full-fledged members of society.
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- Jansson, Fredrik, et al.
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Cooperation and Shared Beliefs about Trust in the Assurance Game
- 2015
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In: PLOS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 10:12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Determinants of cooperation include ingroup vs. outgroup membership, and individual traits, such as prosociality and trust. We investigated whether these factors can be overridden by beliefs about people's trust. We manipulated the information players received about each other's level of general trust, "high" or "low". These levels were either measured (Experiment 1) or just arbitrarily assigned labels (Experiment 2). Players' choices whether to cooperate or defect in a stag hunt (or an assurance game)-where it is mutually beneficial to cooperate, but costly if the partner should fail to do so-were strongly predicted by what they were told about the other player's trust label, as well as by what they were told that the other player was told about their own label. Our findings demonstrate the importance for cooperation in a risky coordination game of both first- and second-order beliefs about how much people trust each other. This supports the idea that institutions can influence cooperation simply by influencing beliefs.
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- Jansson, Magnus, et al.
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Outsourcing and backsourcing in a time of crisis – experiences of double opportunism
- 2024
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In: International Review of Public Administration. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1229-4659 .- 2331-7795. ; 29:2, s. 102-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article addresses the question of how public organizations with limited capacity manage to handle large scale crises. The case analyzed in this article is the sourcing of accommodation during the migration crisis in Sweden of 2015–2016. The event was a game-changer in Swedish migration policy following a more hesitant policy than before, even though new and substantial migration crisis have followed since then. Results show how the legal framework for procurements was not adapted for extraordinary events. The Swedish state was forced to pay exaggerated prices as private contractors took advantage of the acute demand. The study develops our theoretical understanding of the sourcing process during crises and show how the short-term perspective and uncertainties that characterize crises encourage both suppliers and procurers of services to act opportunistically.
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| 29. |
- Jensen, Mikael, 1969-
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Defining lifestyle
- 2007
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In: Environmental Sciences. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1744-4225 .- 1569-3430. ; 4:2, s. 63-73
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The concept of lifestyle is commonly used as something that needs to be changed if we want to achieve a sustainable development. But what does the concept of lifestyle mean? How is it defined? Educators and politicians, among others, need a definition to use the concept and understand how it is related to sustainable development. This paper suggests a plural definition based on a level analysis. There are four levels, from individual to global, on which lifestyle can be understood. There is also an alternative definition on the individual level from a cognitive science perspective. We need to understand the concept of lifestyle at these levels to analyse the relationship to sustainable development problems. Perhaps we should not look at lifestyle as a problem per se, but at the problems used to elaborate a lifestyle.
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- Aslan, Pinar, Fil. Dr. 1986-, et al.
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The Work Environment of Immigrant Employees in Sweden—a Systematic Review
- 2022
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In: Journal of International Migration and Integration. - : Springer. - 1488-3473 .- 1874-6365. ; 23:4, s. 2235-2268
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The aim of this systematic review was to summarize and synthesize research results focusing on the work environment of employees with an immigrant background in Sweden. We focus on the main conditions identified in the working environment of immigrant employees and how these conditions may affect their health and well-being. The concept of “minority stress” and the attachment theory are used to understand and interpret the findings. We systematically searched for literature published between the years of 1990 and 2020 in four databases, Web of Science, PubMed, SocIndex, and Academic Search Elite. We started the selection process by reading title and abstracts, then proceeded to read a selection of full-text studies and eliminated those that did not fulfil the inclusion criteria. We did a quality assessment on the full-text studies based on the MMAT-tool, and then performed a narrative synthesis of the results. The results show that immigrants experience several stressors in their work environment, including physical, psychological, and social risks. These risks are, among other things, associated with the nature of the jobs that immigrants are overrepresented in, with minority-related stressors such as discrimination, harassment, and threats on the basis of ethnic background, and with the lack of social support from managers and colleagues. Results also highlight beneficial factors in the immigrants’ working environment and show the importance of a supportive, inclusive, and empowering management. Our main conclusion is that Swedish workplaces need to introduce more active measures to raise awareness of and combat workplace discrimination, work harder to promote inclusion at the workplace, and eliminate physical, psychological, and social health hazards specific to immigrant employees. The leadership and management have an important role to play here, as does the employees’ trade unions and its special functions.
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- Wiksell, Kristin, et al.
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Friends against capitalism : Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives
- 2023
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In: Current Sociology. - : Sage Publications. - 0011-3921 .- 1461-7064. ; 71:7, s. 1274-1292
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article examines how members of worker cooperatives articulated friendship as resistance against capitalist work relations. This elucidates relatively unexplored links between research on workplace friendships and resistance studies. Based on interviews with members from small Swedish worker co-ops, the analysis shows that the co-ops hinged their friendships on authenticity, but also valued friendship explicitly for its economic and political benefits. Yet, this ideal of authentic and equal friendships sat side by side with narratives of what the article calls 'friendship compliance'. This concept denotes how friendships may instil loyalty, reduce dissent and promote self-sacrifice. It is argued that while such compliance can be at odds with cooperative ideals, its expression in the worker co-ops studied here did not coincide with how the same mechanism has been described as operating in capitalist work organisations.
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- Jensen, Mikael, et al.
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Barns livsvillkor : en introduktion
- 2013
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In: Barns livsvillkor - i mötet med skola och fritidshem. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144090924 ; , s. 15-27
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Jensen, Mikael, 1969
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Livsstil och identitet
- 2013
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In: Barns livsvillkor - i mötet med skola och fritidshem. Mikael Jensen, Anders Fjällhed (Red.). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144090924 ; , s. 43-60
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- Schuurman, Nora, 1968-, et al.
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My Friend Who Never Let Me Down : Ambiguous Emotions at Pet Cemeteries
- 2017
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Pets are liminal creatures: they are regarded as friends and family while they are, at the same time, considered to be belongings. Violence against pets is highly socially stigmatizing in most contexts, but at the same time, owners of companion animals may chose to end their pets’ lives without facing legal charges. There is a general idea, present both in research and popular culture, of a widespread norm against strong emotional responses to the passing of a pet. The reason would be that pets are not considered fully human, and grieving pets in a way similar to human mourning would challenge the boundary between humans and other animals. Yet, there are numerous products and services specifically designed for bereaved pet owners: condolence cards, bereavement counseling, popular psychology books—and pet cemeteries. Through an ethnographic study of pet cemeteries in Sweden, Finland and Norway, we show how pets’ ambiguous status is conveyed through tombstones, decorations and the practices of cemetery visits. Relying on photographs, field notes, interviews with key informants, and the studied pet cemetery organizations’ documentation, we explore the material and meaning-making practices that make these places possible. We suggest that these spaces enable a double sense of pets’ life: pets are simultaneously grieved as human-like friends and family members through anthropocentric gestures, and as nonhuman others through innovative and norm-challenging ways of grieving. Drawing on Judith Butler’s writing on grief, and Giorgio Agambens’ conceptualization of “the animal,” we discuss how practices at pet cemeteries convey abstract and sometimes ambiguous understandings of what life is.
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- Aslan, Pinar, Fil. Dr. 1986-
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Return and (Re)Integration of Children in Migrant Families
- 2024
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The overall aim of this literature review is to summarise and synthesiseresearch on the return and (re)integration of children in migrant families,focusing on their education, integration and health, as well as the opportunitiesand obstacles for a successful return and (re)integration process. The ultimategoal of the review is to contribute with knowledge to the creation of moretools for public officials involved in this process, thereby providing children inmigrant families with better opportunities to prepare and mobilise resourcesprior to return. This could also facilitate their long-term adjustment in thecountry of return.Maintaining regular migration and increasing the return of migrants who aredenied residence in the host country is a high priority for many Europeancountries, including Sweden. However, it is also crucial that the asylum andreturn process is permeated by a child rights approach, which manyauthorities in Sweden have recognised and worked towards. In this respect,children in migrant families are considered to be a particularly vulnerablegroup. Research shows that they often feel uninformed and their level ofparticipation in the return process is described as low. This can lead tofeelings of shock and uprootedness upon return, which can affect children'spsychosocial health.Research also highlights the challenges of integrating children from migrantfamilies into new education systems upon return. Difficulties in speaking andwriting their mother tongue, a new and unfamiliar educational context, lack ofcompetence of school staff, as well as administrative and economic barrierscan all contribute to limiting children's educational opportunities. In addition,children in families returning to their country of origin are often subject tobullying and social exclusion due to their status as returnees, lack of socio-cultural knowledge or language difficulties. In this context, social networkscan be important resources and peer relatives can act as guides andfacilitators of integration.The review identified several knowledge gaps. For example, there is a lack ofstudies using longitudinal data to show how children's situations develop overtime. The few studies that do exist suggest that some initial problems, such asa lack of socio-cultural belonging and social integration, tend to disappear ordiminish over time. However, it is not possible to deduce how other factors,such as living conditions and access to resources, might affect their9adjustment over time. There is also a lack of studies that examine the impactof other background factors relevant to children, such as age, gender andsocio-economic background. The few studies that do examine these factorssuggest that some groups, such as girls and adolescents, may be morevulnerable than others.Based on the findings of this review, a number of recommendations are made. One suggestion is that there should be a clearer and more developed divisionof responsibilities between the public agencies involved in the return process.It should also be considered whether a single agency could be given a moreholistic role for children in migrant families during this process. In addition,there is a need for more qualitative guidelines and methods for public officialswho are involved in the return process of migrant families or who regularlymeet with children in migrant families prior to return. Information andparticipatory work on children in migrant families during the return processneeds to be developed in a more child-friendly and individualised way, as achild's situation may differ depending on factors such as length of stay in thehost country, gender, age and socio-economic background.
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- Jensen, Mikael, 1969-
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Barn, konflikter och konflikthantering
- 2013
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In: Barns livsvillkor - i mötet med skola och fritidshem. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144090924 ; , s. 173-192
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Jensen, Mikael, 1969
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Lekteorier
- 2013
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Book (other academic/artistic)
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- Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin, 1981-, et al.
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Subjective Factors Influencing Individual's Response to a New Public Transport Service
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The timing and nature of people’s responses can be expected to vary when a new element enter their environment. For example, when an individual is provided with a new or modified transport service. This time-scale of behavioural responses will affect the patronage of, and short- and long-term demands on the new service over time. Understanding the underlying factors that influence an individual’s response over time to a new or modified transport service would enable us to identify trigger factors that make the new service attractive from an individual’s point of view. Chatterjee (2001) and Douglas (2003) argued that motives other than instrumental factors related to public transport use, such as attitudes, awareness, travel habits and learning processes, can influence individual responses over time to changes in the travel environment. Unfortunately, despite their importance, there have been few studies that examined this argument empirically. To address this research gap, this paper aims to investigate the influences of subjective factors on individuals’ responses to the introduction of a modified public transport (PT) service over time by proposing and testing an alternative model that modifies the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model framework. This paper also aims to investigate the behavioural change in terms of attitudes and perceptions on individuals’ resources and constraints in using a modified PT service over time after its introduction. The case study involves the new extension of a tram line connecting the suburbs of Alvik and Solna Centrum in Stockholm, Sweden. Four waves of a panel survey were conducted with 96 individuals who lived along the new service, from just before the new service was introduced and until seven months after its introduction. A structural equation modelling technique was used to estimate the relationships between behavioural constructs and panel data, then incorporate them into a discrete choice model. The results show that intention influences individual’s quick-response choice. The panel analysis shows that past behaviour in using the new service influenced current behaviour, and that perceived walking distance in using the service consistently influenced the frequency of using the new service over time.
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- Ahmad Termida, Nursitihazlin, 1981-
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Understanding Individuals' Learning and Decision Processes in a Changing Environment by Using Panel Data
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- When a new transport service is introduced, people have to learn and familiarize themselves with the new service before they decide to adopt it. These processes are developed over time, thus produce dynamics in individuals’ behavioural responses towards the service. This affects the demand of the new service, thus affect revenues. Available studies have examined the factors influencing these responses from microeconomic perspectives. The influence of the theory-based subjective factors has not been examined empirically. Understanding these would assist transport and urban planners to design a better marketing strategy to increase the market share of the new service. A change in seasons affect individuals’ activity-travel decisions, thus produce dynamics in activitytravel patterns in different seasons. Individuals’ constraints, in a form of mandatory activities (working/studying), are influencing individuals’ decisions to participate in day-to-day nonmandatory activities (leisure and routine activities). The interdependency between travel demand, time allocation and mode choice that considers interactions between mandatory and non-mandatory activities, in different seasons is less explored. Understanding these would assist transport planners and operators to manage travel demand strategies across different seasons of the year and provide better transportation systems for all individuals. This thesis includes five papers. Paper I explores individuals’ characteristics of the quick-response and the adopters of the new public transport (PT) service and examines the temporal effects. Paper II investigates the subjective factors influencing a quick-response to the new PT service by proposing a modified attitude-behaviour framework. Paper III and IV analyse the effects of seasonal variations and individuals’ constraints on their day-to-day activity-travel decisions and patterns. Paper V analyses the attrition and fatigue in the two-week travel diary panel survey instrument.
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Barn och unga i utsatta livssituationer - perspektiv från forskning och praktik
- 2020
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I denna tvärvetenskapliga antologi skärskådas kopplingar och dynamiker mellan barndom och utsatthet av några av Sveriges främsta forskare. • Vilka möjligheter har barn och unga i utsatthet att göra sin röst hörd och bli lyssnade på? • Vilka skyldigheter och möjligheter har vuxna att tillgodose barns och ungas rätt? • Hur kan utsatthet, livsvillkor och egna berättelser förstås utifrån forskning, teori och erfarenheter från praktik? Dessa och många andra frågor kring barn och unga i utsatthet belyses i boken. De medverkande har sin bakgrund och sitt forskningssam- manhang inom socialt arbete, sociologi, barn- och ungdomsvetenskap, historia, folkhälsovetenskap, juridik, kriminologi och psykologi. Boken kan användas som kursbok vid utbildningar inom socialt ar- bete, sociologi, barn- och ungdomsvetenskap, lärarutbildning med mera, och som stöd vid konkret arbete med barn och unga.
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- Broth, Mathias, 1965-, et al.
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Showing where you're going : Instructing the accountable use of the indicator in live traffic
- 2018
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In: International Journal of Applied Linguistics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0802-6106 .- 1473-4192. ; 28, s. 248-264
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article takes an interest in how students at a driving school areinstructed how to make the car's behaviour intelligible (accountable)to other road users in traffic. Taking the indicator as an example,the analytic focus is on the ways in which the indicator'srelevance is instructed and its timely activation practiced, andhow activating the indicator is instructed as part of moreencompassing turning procedures. The indicator is one of the centralresources built into cars for displaying to others a driver'sintention about where to go next. Although indicating does not,in itself, affect the movement of the car, activating the indicatoris crucial for allowing others to anticipate a car's movement inspace, and coordinate themselves with it. The analysis showshow instructors manage trainee drivers' instructed actions duringdriving by providing descriptions of what using the indicatoraccomplishes before a directive to turn (a), after a directive to turn(b), and as accounts for initiating correction of trainee driver carcontrol activity (c).
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