Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för socialt arbetehttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/96922024-03-29T15:41:40Z2024-03-29T15:41:40ZSexualitet, sexuell hälsa och socialt välfärdsarbete. En studie om gränsdragningar för sexualitet och sexuell hälsa som privat eller samhällsangelägen frågaAndersson, Johannahttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/759512023-10-06T12:39:01Z2023-05-09T00:00:00ZSexualitet, sexuell hälsa och socialt välfärdsarbete. En studie om gränsdragningar för sexualitet och sexuell hälsa som privat eller samhällsangelägen fråga
Andersson, Johanna
2023-05-09T00:00:00ZVem får stanna? Om politiska problemrepresentationer av rätten att stanna i Sverige 1936–1989Jansson, Tobiashttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/745352023-10-06T13:56:17Z2023-02-02T00:00:00ZVem får stanna? Om politiska problemrepresentationer av rätten att stanna i Sverige 1936–1989
Jansson, Tobias
In 2015, the Swedish government restricted the right to stay in Sweden, to reduce the number of asylum seekers seeking protection in the country. Since then, it has established a restrictive migration policy that only allows people who require a residence permit to stay permanently if they become self-sufficient and are strictly law abiding. Based on a genealogical approach, the aim of this thesis is to analyze changes concerning the right to stay during the period 1936–1989, to make visible assumptions and conditions that underlie a contemporary understanding of this right. This concretely means analyzing the problem representations that precede changes in immigration legislation and related government guidelines, the assumptions on which these are based, as well as the effects in the form of technologies of government that follow from different problem representations. The data comprises 13 government reports and government bills published between 1936–1989. The study’s theoretical framework rest on a Foucauldian approach, combined with combined with selected parts from Bacchi’s analytical framework ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’, and analytical concepts from governmentality research and critical border studies. The analysis shows that problem representations of the right to stay during the studied periods (1930s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s) have recurringly rested on an underlying assumption that the state is responsible for creating an ordered society. This kind of assumption has legitimized problem constructions and subsequent conditions for the right to stay – historically as well as in 2015 – as a way of achieving such an ideal. Although this type of assumption has existed for a long time, it has taken on a different meaning and form in relation to different discourses. For example, an assumption of state responsibility for an ordered society was clearly linked to an equality discourse during the 1960s, leading to state welfare initiatives as solutions to ‘the problem’. Following from the individualized, workfare discourse of 2015, however, the solutions to contemporary problem representations and underlying assumptions instead target individual asylum seekers, requiring them to prove that they deserve the right to stay permanently in Swedish society by becoming self-sufficient subjects. Moreover, governance within Swedish migration control has undergone multiple shifts during the studied periods, alternating between focusing on controlling territorial borders and making non-citizens in the country adapt to national norms. The contemporary use of temporary residence permits to discipline those granted residence permits towards norms of being self-sufficient and law-abiding thus contains clear traces of historical modes of governance.
This study has shown, among other things, that problem representations of the right to stay continuously rest on distinctions between deserving and underserving categories of migrants, although these categories have altered over time. Historically and at present, categories such as ‘bogus refugees’ and socalled unwanted aliens – with ‘socio-economic’ or criminal motivations – have been constructed as undeserving, while hard-working and law-abiding migrants have been constructed as deserving. These constructions have linked the right to stay to notions of who is a ‘good’ citizen and has influenced people’s access to social work services. At the same time, the study has shown that historical problem representations provide political alternatives, such as the possibility to represent problems of the right to stay based on people’s basic need for security.
2023-02-02T00:00:00ZHantering av hemlöshet. En kartläggning och analys av organiseringen av lokala hemlöshetsystem i Sveriges kommuner.Wirehag, Mattihttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/739472023-10-06T11:47:32Z2022-11-17T00:00:00ZHantering av hemlöshet. En kartläggning och analys av organiseringen av lokala hemlöshetsystem i Sveriges kommuner.
Wirehag, Matti
The general aim of this thesis is to study the organization of housing services for persons living in homelessness in Sweden. Three areas are in focus. The first concerns how the right to housing assistance is interpreted in different municipalities and how assessment and placement processes for housing interventions are organized. The second focuses on which types of housing interventions are used and how these differ across Sweden. The third looks at which actors take part in the provision of housing services. The thesis is based on four studies, and both quantitative and qualitative methods are used. The aim of study I is twofold: first, to map and explore the extent and variation of local homeless service systems in Sweden’s municipalities and, second, to explore the possibilities and limits of using available secondary data on homelessness and homelessness housing services when analysing local homeless service systems. Study II aims to explore and compare how local social services organize and manage housing services for the homeless. More specifically, the detailed functions of local homeless services are scrutinized, such as rules and regulations regarding interventions and how they are specified in different types of municipalities. Study III addresses how housing services for persons living in homelessness have grown and changed between 2011 and 2018, focusing on the actors involved (municipal, non-profit and for-profit organizations) as well as how homeless housing services vary between different types of municipalities. The aim of Study IV is to explore the housing situation of undocumented migrants in Sweden and its association with the state of their mental health.
One result of this thesis is that there seems to be a trend towards assessment processes relating to homeless problems taking on stricter forms. Many municipalities have developed a clear requirement profile for who should receive housing due to homelessness. It is clear that a lack of housing is not enough to be eligible for help. A person also needs to fit the mould of the traditional client categories used by social services. Another result is that there is a high degree of isomorphism, i.e. agreement, between the municipalities in terms of how they design their work in the homelessness field regarding the overarching models to organize housing interventions, predominantly the staircase model. There are similarities in how social services have developed functions that resemble housing agencies with a social agenda. At the same time, important details diverge between municipalities. Conditions for the termination of housing assistance or eviction from occupancy, duration of residence and methods to surveil and control the tenants differ. These differences clearly impact the individual’s chances of obtaining long-term housing. The results also show that there are groups of structurally homeless and hidden homeless who cannot access the housing services provided by social services. When it comes to actors in the field, the results suggest that both for-profit and public actors play a major role in the system, while non-profit actors only play a minor role, particularly outside main and large cities. The results presented in this thesis have implications for research, policy and practice. Among other things, creating cohesive rules regarding the length of social contracts as well as termination of these contracts, so-called hidden evictions, may be one important step for both policy and practice. Another important step for research would be a political decision to make detailed data available on local placements within the local housing services for persons living in homelessness in a national registry, to better allow study of the functioning of housing interventions.
2022-11-17T00:00:00ZCOMMERCIAL SUGARCANE FARMING AND RURAL YOUTH LIVELIHOODS IN EASTERN UGANDAMwanika, Kassimhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/723062023-10-06T11:43:20Z2022-06-23T00:00:00ZCOMMERCIAL SUGARCANE FARMING AND RURAL YOUTH LIVELIHOODS IN EASTERN UGANDA
Mwanika, Kassim
Commercial farming is a pathway for pro-poor growth because of its economic linkages such as jobs and incomes. However, most of the available studies of commercial farming are largely generic, leaving a dearth of evidence about what it means for population categories such as the youth. Anchored in a capitalist development lens, this study examined the implications of sugarcane farming for rural youth livelihoods in Eastern Uganda. Using a structured questionnaire, interviews and Focus Group Discussions and observation checklists, both quantitative and qualitative data was collected about youth involvement in sugarcane farming, with particular attention to the implications for youth livelihoods and enhancing their outcomes from sugarcane farming. The study reveals a suboptimal impact of sugarcane farming on youth livelihoods in Busoga. Due to a lack of requisite resources, the youth are incorporated into sugarcane farming through circuits of labour, which are hinged on land and financial constraints. Their proletariat class exposes the youth to imperatives of dialectical labour relations such as arbitrary exploitation, and harsh working conditions in physically demanding and low paying sugarcane jobs. Rather than solving youth livelihood vulnerabilities, sugarcane farming is an enclave for well-off groups and local compradors. Thus access to sugarcane jobs seldom guarantees decent youth livelihoods manifested by low purchasing power to acquire assets, and afford education and food. The situation is exacerbated by structural constraints such as a lack of labour regulation and sugarcane price volatility which affect the trickle-down effects of sugarcane farming on the youth. Commercial farming should be coupled with mechanisms that address individual youth constraints and the structural traps embedded in capitalist large-scale farming.
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