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Challenges of Professional Integration: Experiences of non-EU Highly Skilled Professional Immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden
(2019-07-03)Migration has been a global phenomenon. Sweden being one of the most industrious countries of Europe, with the best welfare system, Sweden has experienced considerable flow of both professional and nonprofessional immigrants. ... -
Challenges of Service User Participation in Human Service Organisations: A Case Study in a Swedish Charity Organisation
(2020-10-19)This report aims to explore the failures of service user participation initiatives in human service organisations. Despite the positive portrayals of service user participation and goals towards implementation, often times ... -
Child and adolescent mental health intervention: The perspectives of social workers and religious healers in Ghana
(2021-08-13)The involvement of social workers and religious healers in the treatment and management of child and adolescent mental health disorder (CAMHD) is not a new phenomenon in most African contexts such as Ghana. CAMHD is a ... -
Children in Prison: Contemplating Processes and Decisions to Separate the Children from their Mothers in Uganda
(2020-03-13)Introduction and context: With the number of imprisoned women who also double as mother continue to grow, so has the number of innocent children accompanying their mother behind bars. Around the World, different countries ... -
Children´s Rights Organisations in the Swedish Welfare State A qualitative, comparative study about the Swedish Children´s Rights organisations BRIS, Friends and Rädda Barnen
(2015-12-18)The aim with this study is to investigate the Swedish Children´s Rights organisations: BRIS, Friends and Rädda Barnen and how the professionals at these organisations perceive the organisations role in the Swedish welfare ... -
Chinese immigrants studying and working in Sweden -A Push-Pull analysis of their motivation and experiences
(2019-02-13)This is a qualitative research study, which aims to explore why Chinese students choose to study and work in Sweden and find out what “Pushes” them from China and what “Pulls” them to study and work in Sweden. The “Push ... -
Creating a Social Network: A study of unaccompanied youth in Sweden
(2015-06-24)Previous research shows that unaccompanied minors and youth often face a gamut of challenges, among others, adjusting to a new environment and forming new social networks. Several studies have frequently highlighted the ... -
Dialogues for Care and Safety: The Role of Social Workers in Responding to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Unaccompanied Children
(2020-12-14)In the past years, Sweden has been faced with high numbers of unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) who are fleeing war and turmoil from their home countries through Europe. These children are resilient but also face ... -
Do fathers care? Examining caring experiences of Ugandan transnational fathers in Gothenburg Sweden.
(2021-02-25)The purpose of the study is to explore caring experiences of transnational Ugandan fathers in Gothenburg Sweden based on their caring lived realities taking in account of their understanding of care. The aims of the study ... -
”Dom har liksom inte förstått att det är dom som måste hjälpa sitt barn” En diskursanalytisk studie om föräldrar och professionella vid barnhabiliteringen
(2018-07-23)Idag deltar familjen i alla delar av habiliteringsarbetet. Forskning visar att verksamma inom barnhabiliteringen har en konsultativ roll gentemot föräldrarna och att behandlaren fått en mer arbetsledande roll som handledare ... -
Emotions in professional social work practice
(2018-07-17)Social workers manage demands in their everyday professional practice, handling personal emotions and requests from the organisation and the situation. This thesis explores such emotions and demands and the discrepancies ... -
Empowered at Dusk - A Qualitative Study About Sex Work Activism in Kampala
(2017-01-24)Sex workers around the world have always suffered from discrimination and stigmatization. This puts them in a vulnerable situation because of little social support. In the Ugandan context, sex workers suffer from stigma ... -
EmpowermentofEthiopianwomenandtheachievementoftheUNMillennium DevelopmentGoals(MDGs)EmpowermentofEthiopianwomenandtheachievementoftheUNMillennium DevelopmentGoals(MDGs)
(2020-07-01)The aim of this study was to investigate the connection between rural Ethiopian women empowerment and the development progress process that Ethiopiais achieving contemporarily.It also studied whether the Millennium Development ... -
“Even if they live a destructive life, at least they won´t die” A qualitative study of how social workers at housing facilities for individuals in homelessness and substance abuse perceive and act upon violence against women
(2020-09-10)The aim of this study is, from a Swedish point of view, to investigate and analyse how social workers at housing facilities for people in homelessness and substance abuse perceive and act upon violence against women. ... -
Experiences and challenges of Collaboration between Civil Society Organizations and the United Nations
(2023-11-17)Interorganizational collaboration is defined by Phillips, Lawrence and Hardy (2000) as “a co-operative relationship among organizations that relies on neither market nor hierarchical mechanisms of control” (pp. 24). They ... -
Falling through the net: An exploratory qualitative study of food poverty and food insecurity in Sweden
(2021-06-28)When thinking of food poverty, Sweden may not be the first country that comes to the forefront of your mind. Indeed it appears as a somewhat neglected field of study in a country that while maintaining a presentation as a ... -
FAMILJESKAPANDE - en studie om dygnsvårdsplacerade ungdomars syn på och tankar kring familj och föräldraskap
(2015-06-24)ABSTRACT Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka och jämföra dygnsvårdsplacerade ungdomars syn på och tal om familj och föräldraskap utifrån tre olika familjeperspektiv; den biologiska familjen, familjehemmet och egen ... -
En fenomenografisk studie av fem kvinnors upplevelser av sin beroendeproblematik
(2015-07-02)Denna masteruppsats handlar om fem kvinnors upplevelser av sin beroendeproblematik av alkohol, läkemedel och narkotika. Dessa kvinnor har fullföljt en behandling på ett 12-stegsbehandlingshem enbart för kvinnor. Studien ... -
Food Banks: An eco-social solution? Critical perspectives on food charity in Europe
(2023-11-03)This aim of this thesis was to investigate food banking organisations as part of food charity on different governance levels within the EU in relation to aspects of sustainability. The Doughnut model after Raworth (2017) ...