4 resultados para Emigrants and Immigrants
em Academic Archive On-line (Stockholm University
Resumo:
A relevant subject in our globalized world concerns the relationship between language and identity, specifically amongst migrant youngsters experience of group belonging. This study therefore focused on how adolescents born to foreign parents in Sweden, perceived their multilingualism as part of their identity formation. I also aimed to include how socio-economic aspects could affect the process of identity construction. Thus, the investigation was performed with seventh grade students at a primary school located in the Stockholm suburb Bredng. The methods consisted of a questionnaire, which was completed by the entire class and a group interview where six students participated. The results revealed that students adapted their language use based on the context, but Swedish was used most habitually. The informants viewed their multilingualism as beneficial but yet fully aware of the linguistic ideologies functioning in society. By combining their minority and majority language, the students were left with different ethnic identities and had diverse interpretations of what it meant to be Swedish. Even though all of them perceived themselves to have multiple ethnic identities, this was not solely seen positively. The issue of belonging was raised and the students claimed to be outcasts everywhere. However, the results differed depending on whether the students were born in Sweden or not. Also, most of them struggled with the process of assumed and ascribed identities, since they perceived themselves to be Swedish but experienced that society valued them as immigrants. Lastly, the study revealed that there were connections between their multilingualism and social mobility as the relationship towards the motherland was highly prioritized even with low levels of economic capital.
Resumo:
Second language acquisition is a field that has fascinated linguists for numerous years and is a topic that is very much connected to how English teachers in Sweden try to teach the English language to the students in their classrooms. In 2009 Sundqvist examined what possible effects extramural English could have on learners' oral proficiency and their vocabulary. In her study she found out that extramural English is an independent variable and a possible path to progress in English (Sundqvist, 2009, p. i). In 2014, three Swedish secondary- and upper secondary school teachers started a project for the Erasmus+. These three teachers tried to create better teaching conditions and to come up with new methods for teaching English. During their investigation they noticed that students who had only been in Sweden for four years or less, seemed to get less exposed to English in their spare time than native Swedish students, which created a disadvantage for them. Since the time when these two studies were carried out, the number of immigrants has increased drastically, which creates the need for further investigation within this area of second language acquisition. In this study, I therefore investigate how much and in what way students come in contact with the English language outside of school. I also examine if there are any differences between native Swedish students versus non-native Swedish students and if so, how this might affect the students and their grades in English. The study was conducted through the use of questionnaires and through observations of different teaching situations, including the participating teachers' methods and the participating students' reactions. The results show that there are differences between native- and non-native students when it comes to extramural English activities. The results also show that these differences seem to affect the students' grades in English, in favour of the native Swedish students. The native students tend to spend more time on extramural English activities, especially in connection to the Internet and computer games, than the non-native students. These results indicate that something needs to be done in order to compensate for the non-native students' disadvantage.
Resumo:
Studiet av post-sovjetisk litauisk emigrantlitteratur r ett forskningsomrde som har vuxit fram frst de senaste ren. Forskningen har hittills fokuserats p hur litauiska emigranter bevarar eller inte bevarar sin litauiska identitet utanfr hemlandet. Denna uppsats har en annan inriktning. Med utgngspunkt frn de kronotopmodeller som tagits fram av litteratur-vetaren Juris Roztis analyseras tv bcker av litauiska frfattare som skriver om liv i Storbritannien respektive Irland med syfte att underska hur det upplevda emigrantlivet framstlls. Forskningsfrgorna r: Hur avbildas emigrantlivet i post-sovjetisk litauisk emigrantlitteratur? Hur skiljer sig den avbildning frn den som framkommer i lettisk efterkrigslitteratur? Den nya Insprrad i det nya landet-modellen visar sig vara mycket lik en av Roztis modeller, dock inte den som avbildar livet i det nya landet utan den modell som avbildar livet i flyktinglgren. Insprrad i det nya landet-modellen visar hur emigranterna lever i vrld dr det inte finns utrymme fr det egna jaget eller intima frhllanden. De lever i en gr zon. I det nya landet men inte riktigt en del av det nya landet. Den nrmaste omgivningen utgrs av andra som r marginaliserade i samhllet: andra migranter, kriminella osv. Emigranterna r insprrade i denna gra zon. De stngs in av ett osynligt men nd ptagligt stngsel mellan dem och det inhemska samhllet. En vsentlig skillnad mot Rozitis flyktinglgersmodellen r dock att banden till hemlandet inte har skurits av utan utgr en levande del av emigrantens liv.
Resumo:
This study revisits the effect of duration by residence in relation to smoking during pregnancy. It contributes to the literature by incorporating a health inequity perspective, and discusses whether immigrants tend to converge with Swedish womens smoking. The study is based on Swedish Medical Birth Register and includes 1 1864 52 pregnancies between 1991 and 2012. Logistic regression was performed to attain crude and adjusted Odds Ratios and 95 % confidence intervals. Immigrants are divided by categorizing countries of origin depending on levels of Human Development (IHDI). Overall immigrant women show low levels of smoking during pregnancy when they arrive to Sweden, by duration of residence levels of smoking increase and converge with smoking patterns of Swedish women. I found that there are differences in smoking patterns depending on IHDI of the country. Immigrant women of higher categories of IHDI show higher levels of smoking although the increase of smoking is higher among immigrant women from categories of lower IHDI. However, immigrant womens smoking during pregnancy is affected by duration of residence, and the increased smoking is associated with health inequalities related to their country of origins IHDI, and by socioeconomic inequalities in Sweden.
