Skyddandets förnuft : En studie om anhöriga till hjälpbehövande äldre som invandrat sent i livet

This dissertation aims to examine and deepen the knowledge of family member caregiving where the care recipient is an elderly person who immigrated late in life. It also aims to contribute to the knowledge of the complexities underlying informal care giving and add to our understandings of what it means to be an immigrant in Sweden. The caregiver is in focus. The research conducted is explorative and partly inductive. The main material used is a qualitative interview study carried out with family members from different countries who are providing informal care to elderly immigrant relatives. The analysis gives three patterns of caregiving. One shows help from informal caregivers only who are not compensated economically. Another shows help from family members who are compensated. The third shows help from family members and staff from the public care system. Three ideal-typical informal caregiver roles show different positions vis-à-vis the new: “guardian”, “filter” and “reinterpreter of traditional care ideals”. Swedish born and immigrated informal caregivers are also compared through analysis of data gathered in telephone interviews with a representative selection of inhabitants in the County of Stockholm. A philosophy of action together with theory on integration and multiculturalism serves as theoretical frameworks to understand discrepancies and ambiguities in the data. Young immigrants experience different integration processes than do the older ones. They strive to protect older family members from changes linked to the migration experience. Talk about dependence on culture underlines family feelings and legitimates the processes of protection. Preconceptions about great differences between Swedish born and immigrant families are not supported by quantitative data. A conclusion is that protection can be understood in relation both to the traditional and the new, the latter in the forms of meetings with Swedish society where unequal relations prevail. It is a kind of counter-strategy where the range of actions is diminished, and thus it has its own logic. Protection can be loosened up when the circumstances change and the range of actions grow.

Vart tog aktivisterna vägen? : Egypten och Tunisien fem år efter den arabiska våren

Människorättsorganisationen Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms dokumenterade 340 fall av påtvingade försvinnanden, bara mellan augusti och november 2015. Påtvingade försvinnanden är människor (ofta politiska aktivister) som förs bort av statliga säkerhetsstyrkor utan att deras anhöriga vet var de befinner sig – eller om de ens lever. Så här ser rättsstaten Egypten ut i dag, fem år efter den arabiska våren som avsatte diktatorn Hosni Mubarak. Vad hände med alla de människorätts- och prodemokratiska aktivister som organiserade och ledde demonstrationer mot Mubaraks polisstat? Hur kan de verka som politiska aktivister i ett land som Egypten, som i dag i princip styrs av den egyptiska militären? I Tunisien firar tusentals människor årsdagen för den tunisiska revolutionen på torg och gator, men det förekommer fortfarande polisbrutalitet, ekonomin är svag och många unga tunisier är arbetslösa. Har politiska aktivister i Tunisien en given plats i landets framtid? Nu när man har åstadkommit mycket som revolutionen krävde – till exempel yttrandefriheten. Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att utforska och ge röst åt aktivisterna som deltog i och låg bakom den arabiska våren.