This paper analyses the causes and effects of tenure security in rural China. Using original survey data gathered in Hebei province in the summer of 2009, it begins by assessing the causes of tenure security among China’s rural landholders. It finds that within the sample, possession of a contract and faith in the legal system have the most pronounced effect on determining tenure security. Contrar

IT-användning i småföretag och organisationer skiljer sig från IT-användning i större företag. I småföretag och organisationer finns det unika problem som påverkar införandet av nya IT-lösningar negativt. Studier om småföretag och organisationers användning av IT och vilka problem som uppstår i detta samband är få. I den här uppsatsen har intervjuer från en fallorganisation utgjort grunden för att

The outcome of a common European asylum system (CEAS) is an open question in which the answer will situate itself somewhere between two conflicting frames: the realist with focus on internal security and border controls, and the liberal with focus on human-rights and refugee protection. This thesis analyses how these frames are expressed in the European Commission’s publications in the asylum area

Det kan vara problematiskt att hålla förhör och åberopa förhör med barn som bevittnat våld i nära relation. När barnet inte uppnått en viss ålder och mognad så att barnets medgivande till förhör är tillräckligt, ska barnet enligt föräldrabalkens bestämmelser företrädas av, vanligtvis, vårdnadshavaren. Åldersgränsen för när barn uppnått en tillräcklig ålder och mognad så att denne själv kan ta till, can be problematic. When the child doesn´t reach a certain age and maturity so the child's consent to interrogation is sufficient, the child will under föräldrabalkens provisions represented by, usually, the guardian. The age limit for when the children reached a sufficient age and maturity, so they can take advantage of their right appears as a general rule be fifteen years. If the child wi

Mother Abuse in the Eyes of the Social Services - a Qualitative Study of Violence and Parenting The purpose of this study was to examine how Child Protection workers understand the dynamics of parenting within a relationship that entails Domestic Violence, and to highlight how they understand the needs of the children in these families. Interviews were carried out with four female Child Protectio

Today, many forms of traditional handicraft is rapidly vanishing as a everyday activity in our society. We don’t use handicraft in the same extent in our homes as we used todo. Products that were once made by hand as a pleasurable hobby or by necessity are nowadays manufactured in big industries often abroad. Some types of handicraft is however a appreciated and practiced hobby and during the rec

The purpose of this study was to analyze the content of the web forum Flashback with the focal point on the subject suicide. Using a virtual ethnographic approach to answer the questions how suicide was discussed on the web forum Flashback, and is it possible to distinguish which need/needs the website Flashback could meet for the users who discuss the subject suicide. Choosing the three most used

In this article, ther concept "happiness" is discussed from two angles: subjective aspect and econometrical aspect. After looking back upon Richard. A. Easterlin and Tommy Bengtsson,s brilliant work, I try to use both short-term stress analyses method and subjective explanation to find out the reason of such question: Why Tianjin people feel happier than Beijing and Shanghai which both m

Syftet med uppsatsen var att beskriva och analysera exklusionsmönster bland asylsökande, framför allt med avseende på boendesituation. Migrationsverket ansvarar för de asylsökandes asylprövningar. Migrationsverket är den myndighet som klassificerar boende för asylsökande. Man talar om två olika boendeformer. Den ena typen är ABO, som är anläggningsbostäder ordnade av Migrationsverket. ABO innebär The purpose of this paper was to to describe and analyze patterns of exclusion among asylum seekers, particularly with regard to living arrangements. Migration Board is responsible for the asylum seeker's asylum trial. Migration Board is the authority that classifies housing for asylum seekers. We speak of two types of accommodation. One type is the ABO, which is holding housing arranged by th

At first glance Austria and Sweden seem to be two very comparable European coun-tries. However, in regard of several innovation indexes Sweden scores significantly bet-ter. This thesis elaborates why Sweden achieves continuously better results than Austria and seeks for Swedish innovation advice for the state in the Alps. However, a compari-son of innovation indicators and a comparative case study

Uppsatsen är en studie av porträttet Sonja som målades 1928 av Christian Schad. I uppsatsen görs först en grundlig beskrivning av verket och sedan följer en kort redogörelse av hur situationen kan ha sett ut för en modern kvinna som bodde i Berlin under 1920-talet, detta för att samhället under denna tid genomgick stora förändringar. Målet med uppsatsen är att undersöka konstverket i förhållande t

Human trafficking is the world’s third largest organized crime after the illegal trade in arms and drugs. It is a growing problem in our increasingly globalized world and people are daily transported between countries to be exploited for different purposes. Not even Sweden is spared from this cynical business, although we may not hear much about it. The aim of this study was to investigate how Swe

The war crimes committed between 1992 and 1995 in Bosnia-Herzegovina have mainly been under the jurisdiction of the legal systems set up by the international community. To solve the atrocities of the past, institutions like the ICTY and the WCC were set up. But to this day there is estimated to be thousands of direct perpetrators still walking free in and around Bosnia-Herzegovina. The purpose of

During the last couple of years social-workers and academics have been discussing the lack of validation and professionalism in different areas of social work. The purpose of this study was to find out what social-workers in different fields of work feel about this ongoing discussion. And also how they feel about the lack of validation in their field of work and the lack of profession status socia

This paper discuses the concept of freedom via a theoretical literary analysis. By starting in footsteps of Isaiah Berlin and his definition of negative and positive freedom this paper demonstrates that there is a problem in this conception of freedom and offers a alternative model of analysis. These problems both internal and external to Berlins theory are clarified and analyzed. By recognizing t

Denna uppsats undersöker Ryssland som ett fall av regional hegemoni. Ryssland kan betraktas som en regional hegemon i de post-sovjetiska länderna i Europa, Kaukasus och Centralasien. Teorin om regional hegemoni hävdar att stormakter har ett behov av att maktmaximera och hålla borta konkurrenter om inflytandet i sina intresseområden. Analysen visar att Ryssland tillämpar en sådan strategi på de tr

Freedom of speech was hotly debated at a high school in Karlskrona regarding Richard Jomshof, a social studies teacher and an active member of the Sweden Democrats. Due to his party affiliation, his students protested against him. Jomshof argued that he was exposed to an occupational prohibition while the students who protested argued that his views were xenophobic. This thesis aims to examine, de

Common pool-resources, or CPR’s which they often are referred to, are natural or man made resource systems such as fish stocks or irrigation systems. The size of these resources make exclusion of potential beneficiaries hard and they are also characterized by a high level of rivalry since extraction by one individual negatively affects others possiblity of appropriation. Due to these characteristi