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In the mid-90s, a nation-wide famine broke out in North Korea, driving people across the border into China in search of food. This was the start of a slow and steady exodus. China claims that these people are illegal migrants, and that a treaty with North Korea obligates it to return them. Others argue that they are refugees that should be protected against refoulment, because of the harsh punishm
The Roma people’s isolation has been a major concern for the population in Europe for many years. Programs and legal frameworks are created for the protection for this underprivileged group; however the isolation continues to exist. The purpose of this paper is to explain why many of the measures taken are shown to be inadequate. The outlining and the examination of the history in this matter will
Development in the sense that we currently use the term has existed since the post-war period and its orthodoxy has changed significantly in the course of time. With economic growth as a first objective, development suffered a crisis in the 1980/1990’s, in view of the lack of concrete results and the increase in poverty at a world level. Human development emerged as a re-orientation in development
In this paper, the moral duty towards asylum seekers and refugees in the EU is highlighted, from the perspectives of Universalism and Communitariarism. Due to different levels of safety and conditions related to being granted asylum in EU member states, the attractiveness of these states for asylum seekers and refugees to seek protection differ substantially. The implementation of the Dublin II Co
The Senegalese decision to brake off negotiations over a renewed fisheries agreement with the European Union in 2006 represents a puzzle since substantial economical gains are associated with an accord and because such agreements have been renewed with a certain degree of continuity in the past. In this thesis, it is argued that the Senegalese withdrawal can be understood as a response to solid do
The European Union is in many ways a huge and vast organization. With an increasing number of members and a deeper cooperation in many areas, the EU constantly needs to change to adapt to new opportunities and challenges. But in parallel to this development there is an entirely different debate, one that concerns the democratic legitimacy of the cooperation as a whole. The European Union is unique
A current issue in Sweden today is whether muslim women shall have the right to bear the niqāb in the public context. A case in Sweden is a woman who is forbidden to wear her niqāb in her education to be a child caretaker. The purpose of this report is to examine whether it is permissible to tolerate a woman’s niqab in an adult education? To emphasize, there has been a review of relevant laws, exa
This paper studies the inclusion of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan democratisation process. The indigenous population have throughout the history of Guatemala always suffered from exclusion. Thus it is interesting to study if there have been any improvements in their situation since the signing of the peace agreement in 1996. The base of our paper is Donna Le Van Cott’s article, Build
Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ fallstudie som undersöker varför demokratiseringsprocessen i Eritrea stannat upp. Vi har gjort en djupdykning i ett av de fall som nämns i Mansfield och Snyder artikel, Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War (2002), där de presenterar teorin om hur ofullständiga demokratier är mer konfliktbenägna. Efter ett trettio år långt självständighetskrig blev Erit
Den här uppsatsen undersöker vilka likheter och skillnader man kan se i hur tre svenska dagstidningar med olika politisk inriktning rapporterade om kriget i Gaza under december 2008 och januari 2009. Totalt undersöks 43 artiklar publicerade under åtta dagar. Ett strategiskt urval har gjorts för att välja ut vilka dagar som ska undersökas, dessa dagar föregicks av viktiga krigshändelser i Gaza. Hyp
The purpose of this paper is to examine if pornography can constitute a human rights violation. This will be done analysing arguments for and against pornography in relation to human rights conventions and a general human rights perspective. The study concludes that pornography from a convention perspective is a social pattern to be modified, while the human rights perspective proposes pornography
Municipal economic policy has a significant role for the municipality in a time of globalisation to boost growth and thereby welfare. The study aims to understand the ideas reflected in a municipality's economic policy and how they take their expression. The study aims to construct a model to understand these ideas and expressions, an analytic tool which will help to analyze a municipality'
This paper studies the effect of New Public Management on the voluntary organizations within Swedish foreign aid. The Swedish voluntary organizations have played a central role in the history of the Swedish foreign aid but are now faced with a new situation. The implementations of New Public Management and the Aid Effectiveness Agenda have a negative effect on the social capital of a society by af
Under senare delen av 1900-talet har Sverige fått en större grupp invånare med annan trosbekännelse än den traditionellt kristna. I takt med att denna grupp vill utöva sin religion med tillhörande uttryck har frågan om omskärelse av pojkar fått större betydelse än tidigare. Omskärelsen sker dock av olika skäl, såväl av religiösa som av traditionella och anses inte sällan som en del i uppfostran.
Abstract This paper is about how to define and improve implementation. It is based on a study of how a Swedish local authority has been working with seven labour-market projects and whether or not it has been successful in implementing the results. The methods we have used are interviews and examined project documents. The applied implementation theory consists of three central concepts; understan
Kenya is a country with great differences between rich and poor. While almost half of the population in Kenya is living below the poverty line, the country in the early 1990’s began to democratize, with support by the people. This thesis’ aim is to examine income inequality and democratic legitimacy in Kenya. I will carry out a case study in which two theories about consequences of income inequali
European identity based on the common religious and cultural history is very hard to argue for. Still, the guiding treaties in the European Union are mentioning the necessity to protect and preserve Europe’s religious, cultural and historical inheritance. This essay explains how this identification of Europe’s common inheritance is no more than a political construct, based on the same theories of
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the relation between the European Union and the Russian federation has been stressed. The Russian leadership has been severely criticised by the EU for intentionally hampering Russia’s democratic development, an issue that affects the relationship between the two parties. At the same time, the EU imports approximately 36 % of its natural gas from Russia,
Cities have become more and more involved with the process of European integration. In spite of this, there is no separate policy area for cities within the EU today and the field of urban politics is instead regulated through various networks and programmes specialized in funding EU-projects This essay is a case-study aiming to adopt the perspectives of ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ steering in orde
