Browsing Master of Human Rights and Multiculturalism by Title
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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, ... -
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 ... -
Discussing racial preference with white Norwegian women: stereotypes and colorblind rationalizations
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis aims to take a critical look at stereotypes that can be connected to different racial groups and how they work in conjunction with categorizing according to preference. The questions of the thesis are a) Which ... -
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 ... -
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" ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Talk to us, not for us The perspective of Norwegian Muslims of immigrant background on inclusion and representation of their community in the Norwegian mainstream media
(Master thesis, 2018)In the last century the world has seen more movement of people than any other time in human history. This has brought about a wave where societies, especially in Western Europe are becoming more and more multicultural. ...