E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Youkhana, Eva"
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Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters
Ekren, Elizabeth (2021-11-22)To what extent are refugees empowered in their daily lives to overcome legal, material and sociocultural challenges that governmental institutional structures create? In Germany, where over 1 million individuals have ... -
An army with a country: How the Pakistan military imposes hegemony via the infrastructure and welfare sectors
Chaudhry, Rabia (2019-11-29)In addition to defending their countries, modern day militaries assist the state in labour intensive non-defence related activities. This ranges from disaster relief to providing administrative assistance. In countries ... -
Civilian loyalty and agency in insecure spaces: A study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region
Oginni, Oyewole Simon (2024-01-26)This dissertation examines how civilians, as a diverse category of people, influence political, social and economic environments around them and relate to futures during armed conflicts characterised by multiple competing ... -
Decisions, Practices and Priorities: A Qualitative Study on University Dropout and Personal Development in Panama
Barsallo Alvarado, Gabisel (2019-12-19)This qualitative study examines the relationship between sociocultural factors and community practices connected to university dropouts in Panama. It also examines the outcomes that dropping out has had on former dropouts' ... -
Demystifying the (post-)politics of Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP): An analysis of the what, why, and how of GAP and the operation of development in Turkey from a critical perspective
Bilgen, Arda (2017-07-20)Turkey’s modernization process has been heavily influenced by the strong will and idealistic ambition of the Turkish state to ensure progress and development since the inception of the country in 1923, or even earlier, ... -
Development Discourses and Urban Poor: A Comparative Study of Slums of Islamabad and Brasilia
Waheed, Arslan (2021-09-02)The post-World War II period has been marked with global, political and economic restructuring in which forces of capitalism and modernist planning flourished. International development institutions like the United Nations, ... -
Family Migration and Wellbeing of Migrant Workers' Children: Evidence of China's Vocational High School
Tang, Ling (2022-05-27)This research aims to clarify the wellbeing of migrant workers’ children in vocational education and training (VET) schools at the family level. The study has three main parts: descriptive analysis, quantitative research ... -
Food habits and nutrition security in West Africa: Practices from Southwestern Burkina Faso
Germer, Aminata (2020-10-30)Background: The southwestern part of Burkina Faso (BF) like the whole country faces severe vulnerability to food and nutrition insecurity, which is characterised by a cyclical up and down, and particularly by a high rate ... -
Gender and Education: A Case Study of Gender Codes in Urdu Textbooks for Secondary School Education in Punjab, Pakistan
Saleem, Sofia (2023-08-11)This dissertation is a study of the gender codes found within school textbooks in Pakistan. It critically examines Urdu textbooks, published by Punjab Textbook Board, and taught in Urdu-medium public schools at the secondary ... -
Language choice as a gate-keeping practice: an exploration into the psycho-social impacts of multilingualism through case studies from the educational and judicial sectors of Pakistan
Nasir, Aftab (2020-01-27)Pakistan is a multilingual and multi-ethnic country: all the provinces have their own regional languages as lingua franca, i.e., Punjabi in Punjab, Pashto in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, etc.; Urdu is the national language, i.e., ... -
The lived experiences of childbearing in a basti: performing pregnancy and relationships in Jaipur, India
Thapa, Poornima (2024-06-14)India's rapid socio-economic transformations have significantly impacted women's lives across the country, especially in urban slums (bastis). Despite ongoing challenges like high infant mortality, female infanticide, poor ... -
'Pooling resources, scattering the family': transnational realities of Zimbabwean post-2000 migrants in the United Kingdom
Mashingaidze, Mercy (2020-12-10)This thesis analyses how international migration (re)shapes migrants’ family life. Focusing on narratives drawn from purposefully sampled Zimbabwean migrants living in the United Kingdom (UK), it examines how family life ... -
Quality Enhancement in Cocoa Production: a Study of the Cocoa Sector of Ghana
Annan, Adjoa Tsetsewa (2022-07-26)The cocoa value chain emphasises farmers' poor environmental, social, and post-harvesting practices during cocoa beans production. These poor quality practices raise ethical and environmental issues in cocoa production and ... -
Rural Youth Outmigration Choices in Light of Government Development Policies in Algeria: The Case of Batna Province in the Aures Region
Fellahi, Anis (2021-02-17)Rural unemployment and underemployment in developing countries are one of the most salient factors driving youth outmigration. In Algeria, as in many countries in the Global South, while migration to Europe remains a ... -
We Come. We Work. We Relate. The Migrant Labourers in Penang
Lai, Wan Teng (2017-11-22)The PhD-project looks at the everyday work and lives of labour migrants in Penang. They are women and men from Indonesia, Vietnam, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and The Philippines. The research employed a mixture of qualitative ...