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1. 6. Choices and Rules in Informality : A case study on public policy implementation and obstacles to formalizing the domestic work sector in Argentina

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Tilda Rådström; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Domestic workers; domestic work sector; informal work; public policy implementation; social policy; financial incentives; informal institutions; rational choice theory; Argentina; Trabajadoras domésticas; sector del trabajo doméstico; trabajo informal; implementación de políticas; política social; incentivos financieros; instituciones informales; teoría de la elección racional; Argentina;

   Sammanfattning : This study reviews Rational Choice theory and Informal Institutions theory and uses new data to explain the persistence and scale of Argentina's informal domestic work sector. The domestic work sector in Argentina represents a typical case in Latin America: almost entirely dominated by women and high informality levels. LÄS MER

3. 7. Migration and Gender Role : Depicting the experience of Bangladeshi immigrant women in Sweden.

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Författare :Sadia Mahin; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Gender; Gender role; Migration; immigrant and integration; Social Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : The present study centers on the experiences of female Bangladeshi migrants who have relocated to Sweden in recent years. I have endeavored to depict the process of their migration from Bangladesh and afterward integration into the Swedish labor market as an immigrant. LÄS MER

4. 8. Regional Migrant Workers in Thailand: Precarity and Resistance

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Författare :My Stenquist; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Labour law; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : In recent decades, Thailand's economy has grown significantly and in one generation the country has gone from being classified as a low-income country to an upper-middle-income country. Combined with an ageing population, this has created labour shortages particularly in sectors with many low-skilled jobs, such as fishing, agriculture and manufacturing. LÄS MER

5. 9. The female perspective on a situation of uncertainty : examining gendered and accumulated vulnerability in multiexposure to stressors through a case study in rural Nepal

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Författare :Filippa Dahlback; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Multi-exposure; stressors; climate change; Ghorka earthquake; COVID-19; vulnerability; gender; Nepal; life histories; small-scale farmers;

   Sammanfattning : Climate change impacts are becoming more severe globally, with estimations of a continued negative trend in the future. This interacts with increasing natural disasters as well as non-climatic stressors, such as pandemics or social stressors, creating a multi-exposure to stressors especially harmful for rural populations and small-scale farmers who depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. LÄS MER

7. 10. Female household worker's own perceptions of remittances as a sustainable livelihood : A case study of migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Författare :Emma-stina Carlert Blomqvist; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Sustainable livelihoods; Remittances; Female Household workers; Perceptions; Saudi Arabia;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the perceptions of female migrant household workers situated in Saudi Arabia and how remittances can be a sustainable livelihood for them and their households. There has been limited research surrounding female household workers' own perceptions of sustainable livelihoods and particularly of those situated in Saudi Arabia. LÄS MER