Browsing Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism by Issue Date
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Human Rights Education in Kurdistan–Iraq: a means towards gender equality?
(Master thesis, 2013)This thesis examines education professionals’ perceptions of the potential role of Human Rights Education (HRE) as a means towards gender equality in Iraqi Kurdistan. HRE is understood as a cosmopolitan project. The key ... -
Narrating history in the museum: the Oslo Holocaust Centre, multiculturalism and human rights education
(Master thesis, 2013)Museums are implicated in the national project of identity formation; exhibition narratives can be reaffirming and equally contestable. Citizens confront culture, memory, history, and myth in the museum narrative which may ... -
Transnationalism and Public Participation: The Experiences of Kenyan Minority Migrants in Norway
(Master thesis, 2014)This thesis examines how integration experiences of Kenyan migrants in Norway impact on their public participation in both Kenya and Norway. The main research question is to investigate how the experiences of Kenyan migrants ... -
Listen to children’s heart - A study of ‘voice’, participation and child rights in multicultural primary schools in China
(Master thesis, 2014)This paper explores the extent of child participation in and beyond classrooms in Chinese multicultural primary schools. It draws on Freire’s theory of critical pedagogy and on the insights of Hart (1992) and Lundy (2007) ... -
Immigrant women’s participation in a voluntary organization. A tool towards empowerment, recognition and social capital?
(Master thesis, 2016)In Norway, many immigrant women from Oslo lack inclusion in mainstream society and employment (NOU 2011:14, p.82). This thesis was set out to explore how these struggles can be met through participation in a voluntary ... -
Recognition of identity to the understanding of equality. A theoretical study
(Master thesis, 2017)Combining the fields of Human Rights Philosophy and Buddhist thought, this study explores the relationship between self-recognition and equality. My assumption is that there is a close relationship between these two notions ... -
My freedom is: to be what they do not want me to be” Subtitle: A study of Norway’s Integration Policy Through the Obligatory Information Program for Asylum Seekers
(Master thesis, 2017)Like the vast majority of European countries, Norway receives asylum seekers from all over the world. Most of those have origins in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The vast majority of all asylum seekers in Norway reside ... -
Give them voice, don’t speak for them Women’s right on decision-making: Study case of minority women in Kosovo
(Master thesis, 2017)Researchers, organization, and activists are advocating increasingly for the political representation of women and minority groups. However, few are considering the impact of laws and policies on minority women, or generally ... -
Eritrean migrant youths’ understanding of citizenship, human rights and diversity in Norway
(Master thesis, 2017)The goal of this thesis is to investigate Eritrean youth participants’ perceptions, experiences, attitudes and feelings about citizenship, diversity, integration and human rights education that they are learning in schools ... -
Comparative Analysis of Multicultural policies in post-conflict societies: the cases of Kosovo and Macedonia
(Master thesis, 2017)Multiculturalism as a theory and policy in its essence aims to address the needs of national minoritites, protect them against assimilation and accommodate them in state institutions by a politics of recognition. This study ... -
FGM in Italy: healthcare professionals as agents of change? A study ten years after the adoption of law 7/2006 on targeted training as dialogical tool
(Master thesis, 2017)Due to migration fluxes, modern societies are increasingly more characterized by a plurality of cultural groups, each one with its specific behavioral norms and cultural practices. Particularly, "female genital mutilation" ... -
Participatory Parity of Ethnic Minority Families and Their Relations with Norwegian Child Welfare Services Recognition, Multiculturalism, and a Hierarchy of Knowledge
(Master thesis, 2018)Public discourse, international demonstrations, and human rights monitoring mechanisms have expressed concern over the relationship between ethnic minority families and Norwegian child welfare services (CWS). This thesis ... -
Women's rights - Between competing laws in Kosovo : a study about gender based violence in rural areas
(Master thesis, 2018)Women´s rights in Kosovo has undergone drastic changes during the last decade. After the civil war in 1999, the international community settled down to rebuild Kosovo, based on the universal human rights. The national law ... -
Power, politics and debate on the Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 12 in Japan: barriers to implementation in education
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines tensions between the right of child democratic participation as an ideal encapsulated in the United Nations Convention of the Child Rights (CRC) and how this ideal has been implemented in Japan. Despite ... -
Hegemony and Reconciling Indigenous-State Relations A discourse analysis of truth commission debates in Australia and Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)This study emerges from the context of requests for truth commissions by indigenous populations in Australia and Norway between 2016-2017. In both western liberal democracies, these requests reflected a need felt to reconcile ... -
Multiculturalism, Integration and Human Dignity The Case of Caritas Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)Caritas Norway does an important work in the integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the Norwegian society. Understanding to what extent this organization takes into account multiculturalism theories and ... -
Language Diversity and Transnational Political Engagement The Case of Eritrean Muslim Diaspora in Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis examines the role of language diversity in the diasporic political engagement of Eritrean Muslim non-Tigrigna speakers and Tigrigna speakers in Norway. It attempts to explore the interplay of language in the ... -
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the role of the lustration law on the process of democratization in Ukraine after the power shift in 2014
(Master thesis, 2018)The 2013 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution, which started as a non-violent demonstration for European integration, rapidly developed into a riot against corrupt government officials, human rights violations and power usurpation, ...