In the aftermath of the genocide the Rwandan government is facing the difficult task of uniting Hutus and Tutsis that for generations has been hostile to each other. In this strive references to Hutu, Tutsi and Twa have been replaced by Rwandans in the public discourse, and the government has rewrited history in a way suitable for its goal. This study aims at analysing this rewriting of history,

As a school welfare officer you are often alone of having your perspective and must struggle to preserve that perspective. At the same time, there are very little defined what role a social worker should have in a school. This makes it nessesary to form and develop your role of profession independently. According to the Swedish school law, the schools are not required to employ a welfare officer.

The Forthcoming Essay concerns the publicly protected employment (Offentligt skyddad anställning), it's content and what actually happens to its participants after they have retrieved it. We have also, during our research, discovered a great lack of background research concerning this subject. Beside statistics and publicly protected employment rulework there only exist a small amount of resea

The essay discusses underlying racism in the Swedish community and has, as a specific purpose, to illustrate and analyze how images of immigrants are constructed in a local setting. The questions at issue are: What established conceptions about racism exist and how are immigrants described by the youth in Sweden? Which racist manifestations are evident? To answer these questions, twelve interviews

Uppsatsen behandlar betydelsen som film har för vår förståelse av olika fenomen och historiska händelser, för förmedling av ideologi samt hur filmskapare arbetar för att övertyga sin publik.

Abstract The organization of the health care system in Sweden has been subjected to investigations and discussions in order to make it more effective. The aim is to create a better public health care and to economize on the financial resources. In the year of 2003 an amendment of the Swedish law made it easier for municipalities and county councils to make own solutions and agree about how health

Out on the agricultural flat country side of Skåne, outside the city of Helsingborg, two small villages are located; Kattarp and Hasslarp. During the past 15-20 years they have struggled with social problems, criminality and bad publicity. They are today at a breaking point, and the municipality of Helsingborg has realised the villages? true potential of life in the countryside with easy com

In this report a systematic working procedure for risk classification of processing equipment from a maintenance point of view is described. How this system has been worked out is also an important part of the report. The classification system is adapted for use in complex processing plants. Preemraff Göteborg has been subject for the underlying study and application of the system. The system aim

I have investigated the political culture of post-communist Russia. For a long time it has been assumed that, the history is of great importance in shaping the political culture. I wanted to find out if this was true, I chose to study the political culture of Russia. How great effects had the autocratically legacy of Soviet Union in the democratisation of Russia? My thesis show that the role of hi

In 1979 the Sandinista movement revolted against the Somoza dictatorship and seized power in Nicaragua. The Swedish Social Democrats had earlier supported the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua and now welcomed the revolution. During 1979 and 1990 the Swedish policy on Nicaragua proved stable. The political support and the flow of financial aid were continuous despite changes of government, internal

This essay discusses immigrants? prospects of constructing an identity in a multicultural society like Sweden. The discussion is primarily theoretical but offers a few empirical examples to demonstrate its relevance. Furthermore, the ontological standpoint of this essay draws on an understanding of the world and our knowledge as constructed which implies that identities are also constructed. The p

Den ojämlika representationen i våra folkvalda församlingar är ett demokratiskt problem. För att alla grupper i samhället ska få sina intressen tillgodosedda krävs en representation som speglar samhället, dess intressen och åsikter. Könskvotering kan ses som ett svar på problemet med ojämlik representation. En diskussion av medborgarskap är viktig för att förstå innebörden av representation och de

The landfills located at the sea shore or below the ground water table are a severe cause of concern due to their close proximity to sensitive coastal ecosystems and pristine ground waters. Therefore, it is important to assess the long term environmental risks of coastal landfills before their final closure. In this context, the reactive transport models, by allowing us to study the complex interp

Spegelträning är en ny och relativt oprövad metod för behandling av handskadade patienter. Behandlingen ger en illusion av funktion i en icke fungerande hand och metoden baseras på forskning om hjärnans plastiska förmåga som gör att kroppsuppfattningen snabbt kan förändras. Studien gjordes som en fallstudie och beskriver spegelträning som arbetsterapeutisk intervention på en patient med handskada.

Förskrivning av elrullstol är en intervention av betydelse för ökat aktivitetsutförande och förbättrad hälsa för personer med nedsatt förflyttningsförmåga. Syftet med denna studie var att studera brukares uppfattning om elrullstolens betydelse för aktivitet och hälsa. Studien är kvalitativ med narrativa intervjuer som metod för datainsamling. Författaren har intervjuat sex personer som använder el

This thesis aims at presenting the semantic domains of the numeral classifiers in Kammu by analysing the group of nouns that each classifier can be used with. As some alternations are possible due to semantic or pragmatic reasons these must be considered as well. The work is thus descriptive, but some typological comparisons will be undertaken, mainly based on Aikhenvald's Classifiers (2000) a

The purpose of this essay is to identify how the drug user is portrayed in motion pictures. My main questions are: How is the drug use described? How is the male and female drug user depicted? How may the movies contribute to the construction, reproduction and change of gender? The method I use in my research is a qualitative, selective discourse- analysis of a number of movies prominently portray

De vanligaste orsakerna till en höftplastikoperation är artros, ledgångsreumatism, sjukdom i leden under unga år eller en fraktur. En höftplastikoperation innebär att man byter ut ledhuvudet och/eller ledpannan mot en protes. De första tre månaderna efter operationen förändras aktivitetsutförandet av en del aktiviteter till följd av restriktioner. Tekniska hjälpmedel förskrivs därför och tjänar ti

Arbetsterapeuter har aktivitet som fokus och deltagande i aktiviteter kan leda till ökad livstillfredsställelse. I den betydelse som begreppet livstillfredsställelse användes i denna studie var en individ tillfredställd antingen i livet i allmänhet och/eller inom ett specifikt område (domän). Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur vuxna personer med fysiska funktionshinder upplevde att handikappidro

How is the identity of Swedish diplomats affected by living a very international life, regularly moving from one place to another, while their main task is to represent Sweden at all times? How does the national identity relate to the professional and the international identity and what role does the context play in this process? These are the questions asked in this thesis. By interviewing 39 Swe