This thesis addresses battered women’s leaving processes. Leaving is conceptualised in a wider sense, i.e. as disentanglement from violent relationships beyond the physical break-up. The general aim of the thesis is to ...

The aim of this study is to describe and analyse experiences, living conditions and processes that have infl uenced Finnish immigrant men in Sweden and the resources and strategies they have used to handle and control their ...

In this thesis the aim is to explore how the phenomenon of working through child sexual abuse can be understood; its historical, discursive and social conditions and relations to gender and other power structures. The main ...

In this thesis the empirical basis is the development in three exposed suburbs, Hjällbo, Hammarkullen and Eriksbo, during the period 1970-1995. Based on an assessment of the development in the districts, the thesis tries ...

Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i Handikappreformen, vars mål var att personer med funktionshinder – däribland de med utvecklingsstörning – skall integreras under de ideologiska ledstjärnorna; delaktighet och jämlikhet. Denna ...

The general aim of this thesis is to reach a more insightful understanding of how help is actually worked out in the everyday life of older people when they can no longer manage on their own. The overall research question ...

This thesis is based on narratives by families originating from Iran, now residing in Sweden, Göteborg. The focus is the accounts of family, gender, relations, belongings (and class). Point of departure is a representation ...

The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse how the natural children of foster carers experience growing up in a foster family. The intention was to gain knowledge about their everyday life through their own ...

The focus of this thesis is on boundary work both as a phenomenon and a theoretical tool, and consists of the manuscripts of four articles and an introduction. One way of perceiving professions is in terms of a landscape ...

The purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively study love and sexuality on the internet, for example user demographics, usage patterns, and descriptions of the arenas that constitute the sexual landscape on the internet. ...