Power and Resistance: exploring strategies of self-empowerment among Syrian asylum seekers in Sweden
(2017) MOSM03 20171Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
- Abstract
- This thesis explores the experiences of Syrian asylum seekers in Sweden, who are waiting for their decision or have recently received it. The empirical data have been collected through semi-structured interviews with ten women and men during a month-long fieldwork conducted in the autumn of 2016 in an asylum centre located in the south of Sweden. The research queries the regimes of power that shape the everyday realities of respondents, mainly the Swedish state, camp administration and wider Swedish society. Simultaneously, the study illustrates how individuals are active agents, navigating their interactions and resisting and negotiating the established power relations.
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- author
- Baghdasaryan, Zaruhi LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MOSM03 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Power Relations, Resistance, Asylum, Waiting, Syria, Sweden
- language
- English
- id
- 8959340
- date added to LUP
- 2018-11-19 09:27:35
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