Den senaste tiden har blickarna vänts mot Spanien och den konstitutionella kris som för närvarande pågår i landet. I regionen Katalonien har det skett försök att separera den autonoma landsdelen från staten och efter en folk-omröstning utropades i oktober 2017 självständighet från Spanien. Med avstamp i den rådande situationen beskrivs den juridik som kretsar kring utbrytande ur stater. Det katalaDuring the latter half of 2017 much attention has been directed towards Spain and their current constitutional crisis. Leaders of the autonomous region of Catalonia have been campaigning for the separation from the Spanish state and in October a referendum led to the regions very own declaration of independence. With the outset being the portrayed situation, this essay describes the legal aspects

The debate on populism is and has been a contested phenomenon. Mostly, scholars focus on defining populism and explaining its development during the two past decades. What is still an unexplored area is why populist parties succeed in gaining electoral support in some countries and fail in others. Despite the consequences of the financial crisis of 2008, a right-wing populist party has failed to g

Problem description: There is a big difference between the Swedish and the Spanish bread culture. In Spain they normally buy their baguette-looking “barra” in the bakery and then break it to eat together with the food. As the bread should be eaten the same day it’s baked, the Spaniards need to visit the bakery every day. Maybe the Swedish ryemeal bread, with a durability of many days, would be app

The aim of the essay was to describe what some young Swedish and Spanish people had to say about alcohol cultures. Some of the questions asked were: How are the alcohol cultures in Sweden and Spain described? What are the differences, and where do they come from? What would an ideal alcohol culture look like? The investigation also had a comparing angle, as I was interested in what the people valu

The aim of this paper is to expand the debate on globalization and its consequences from a theoretical perspective emphasizing social processes of exclusion and inclusion. I explore these social processes in dialogue with the Spanish social movement for the rights of irregular immigrants. The paper also aims to explore new forms of resistance in the context of globalization. "The declinist t

När spanjorer kommer till Sverige uppstår det problem i kommunikationen. Framför allt är det verbala språket ett problem men definitivt även kroppsspråket, det icke verbala språket förmedlar 90% av de intryck vi får av en annan person. Ansiktsuttryck kan vara likartade över hela världen men när det gäller kroppsspråk kan man inte generalisera överhuvudtaget. Kroppshållning och maner är starkt rela

Det huvudsakliga syftet med denna studie är att utveckla förståelsen för den kundupplevda servicekvaliteten inom dagligvaruhandeln. Det underliggande syftet är att testa Vazquez m fl. (2000) modell för mätning och utvärdering av servicekvalitet inom dagligvaruhandeln. Detta för att se om den ger ett rättvisande resultat i två olika butikskoncept, lågpris och traditionellt, eller om det krävs en mo

In 2013 the conservative ruling party of Spain, Partido Popular, launched a draft to a new Citizen Security Law that after a year of critical debate was rammed by the congress. The opponents claim that the laws are undermining democratic rights such as freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. Partido Popular defends the laws with reference to security and safety while opponents claim that the un

This study aimed to investigate how two Spanish newspapers, El País, and El Español, portrayed human trafficking for sexual purposes, prostitution, and the central actors. To gain insight and a better understanding of this, eleven news articles from each daily press that were published between the years 2021 and 2023, have been analyzed. The focus has been on both the manifest and latent messages