Blar i UiS Brage på emneord "immigration"
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An analysis of the language challenges faced by Myanmar refugee students in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IAS/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)This study aims to increase understanding the level of language proficiency and educational achievement for the first-generation immigrant students. The research provides an obligating account of the lives, dreams, and ... -
Being an immigrant mother in Norway "A study of immigrant mothers' experiences of their life-worlds and perceptions of Child Welfare Services"
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-01)The aim of the research was to explore the meanings that Romanian immigrant mothers in Norway give to their life-worlds. It sought to understand the experiences that frame the mothers’ opinions of welfare institutions, in ... -
Chinese immigrants’ parental experiences in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-IS/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06)Existing empirical studies of parents in China found that this population presents features of authoritarian parenting style: greater parental demands and control together with lower parental responsiveness. However, when ... -
Constructing collective meaning about risk on social media
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)This explorative study addresses the themes of immigration, social media and risk perception. It investigates how immigrant women in Norway construct collective meaning about various risks when they participate in online ... -
Integration or assimilation: do Norwegian barnehager preserve immigrant children’s native-culture according to their parents?
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)This paper presents a framework for understanding culture differences and immigrant parents’ points of view and experience with barnehager. The purpose of this study was to understand and have an overview over a few immigrant ... -
Securing Norwegianness: Imagining threats to a cultural community
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)This Master's thesis is born out of a growing unease with the general discourse on immigration and immigration policy in Norway. What at times appears as an ongoing discussion concerning the amount, and potential negative ... -
‘The other’ crossing: Discursive representations of the management and dynamics of the Southern Border of Spain
(Masteroppgave/UIS-HF-IGIS/2013;, Master thesis, 2013)Spain has undergone important transformations in its migratory patterns. In the last decades the country began to observe a decrease in the net of emigration and an enlargement of the immigration influx. Although the ... -
Where strangers become neighbours : design for diversity - a case study utilising a physical and social framework of a reception centre for asylum seekers
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2009, Master thesis, 2009)This project is going to look at how the built environment, in this case a public space, can improve the well-being for people in a reception centre for asylum seekers and refugees. The project is going to talk about the ...