Sweden continues to prioritise highly-skilled migration while restricting low-skilled migration, idealising the highly-skilled migrant as being easier to integrate into the labour market and into Swedish society at large. This project answers to these assumptions by investigating the lived experiences of highly-skilled female migrants in Sweden through the lens of social capital theory. Through qualitative analysis, this project aims to determine what barriers or privileges exist for the subject-group when accessing and utilising social capital, focusing on the aspects of social networking and relationship building.

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As users’ requirements change in today’s fast-paced business market, computer software has to adapt to new hardware, technologies and requirements to keep up with the trend. Therefore, to avoid depreciation and obsolescence, which can have detrimental effects on a product, software needs to be constantly maintained and, when passed a certain point in its lifecycle, needs to be migrated or re-developed from scratch. Automated migration enables software vendors to decrease the cost of the migration process by source code generation. However, as security is a crucial requirement in any system, it is not guaranteed that the previously satisfied security requirements are satisfied in the migrated software. Therefore, it is critical to study the evolution of security throughout the automated migration process to predict where new security vulnerabilities may emerge and to understand the scale on which the security is affected. / Thesis / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

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Since the late 1980's, China has experienced the world's largest peacetime out-migration of its rural labor force to urban areas. The temporary nature of the labor migration complicates the control on this mobile population, and its multi-faceted influence on the whole economy makes the migration policy controversial. Based on cross-sectional Chinese rural household survey data, this study analyzes the effects of migration on rural areas and explores the determinants of the participation and duration of the temporary migration. The first chapter investigates how parental migration affects the decision of enrolling children in high school through migration's effects on household income and the opportunity cost of schooling in rural China. The opportunity cost of schooling is approximated by the marginal productivity of children imputed from family production estimation, which controls for potential endogeneity in the time allocation decisions of family members. The empirical results show that temporary migration of parents raises their children's probability of high school enrollment by 3.2%, resulting primarily from a positive income effect. These findings suggest that reductions in barriers to migration raise rural household earnings, and foster the investment in children's education. The second chapter studies the determinants of participation and duration of temporary rural-urban migration in China highlighting the role of education and migrant networks. The Probit and Logit models are fitted to the dichotomous migration participation estimation. To correct for the sample selection bias, Heckman's two-step procedure is used to estimate the length of migratory work. Empirical results confirm the existence of a migrant network effect on both migration participation and migration length. Schooling increases migration probability non-linearly and its effect on migration length is insignificant once migration is controlled. Furthermore, the positive effect of migrant networks on migration participation is especially prominent among individuals with junior and senior high school education. / Ph. D.

Yes / In this study, we aim to develop an understanding of the similarity between migration and expatriation, identify both as elements in diversity, and draw attention to the additional layer of ethnic diversity created by the high number of top management expatriates in some Nigerian subsidiaries of transnational corporations. Using the qualitative research design, we thematically analysed data from semistructured interviews with six indigenous managers in four transnational corporations. We found a significant number of expatriate managers in two subsidiaries and a lack of diversity management framework to address the new layer of diversity as reflected in the unequal treatment of indigenous managers. We conclude that migration and expatriation are similar and could be better managed through effective diversity management framework.

Speaking to the people is part of politics. But, who are the people? In populistic and nationalistic discourse, the people is constructed against either the elite or the people outside the nation, "the people" is created in opposition to those who are not the people. This thesis examines political manifestos in Sweden during the election years of 2014 and 2018 to investigate how the political parties in the Swedish Parliament construct and speak to the people, whom they exclude from the people and how the discourse changes between the two election years. During the year 2015, Sweden, together with the rest of Europe, had a socalled refugee crisis. An understanding of populism in relation to crises is that it is increasing. This thesis examines, without claiming a causal link, a potential discursive change between the two election years that took place before and after the refugee crisis.

Sammanfattning Mediers framväxt har lämnat fåtal delar av samhället orörda. Idag är olika medier närvarande i många delar av den moderna människans vardag, till exempel för kommunikation och nyhetsförmedling. Medier har kommit att användas av olika politiska organisationer för att sprida dess ideologi. Medieanvändningen har även visat sig vara effektiv för mobilisering av radikalnationalister. Tidigare forskning visar att sociala medier kan fungera som en grogrund för radikalisering och extremism, där högerradikala grupper sprider och förstärker sina antidemokratiska ideologier. Att observera dessa grupper för att förstå hur de attraherar och engagerar nya anhängare och medlemmar är viktigt för att bidra till forskningen om extremistiska miljöer i Sverige. Studien observerar den partipolitiskt oorganiserade organisationen Nordfront, som bedriver nyhetsrapportering samt innehar en inofficiell chattgrupp. Med hjälp av netnografisk observation tillika innehållsanalys utifrån teorier om digital interaktion och radikalisering identifieras hur digitala funktioner bidrar till att reproducera en stark antisemitisk och antidemokratisk diskurs. Studien visar också att ett medlemskap i gruppchatten samt att delta i dess diskussioner ökar risken för individer att radikaliseras. / Abstract  The emergence of media has left few parts of the community inviolated. A various amount of medias are present in the everyday life of the modern human, for example for communication and news. Medias has come to be used of a variety of political organizations for the spread of their ideology. Media use has appeared to be efficient for mobilization of radical nationalists. Previous research shows that social medias can operate as fertile soil for radicalization and extremism, where far right groups distribute and reenforces their anti-democratic ideologies. Observing these groups, in order to understand how they attract and engage new supporters and members is important for contributing to science regarding extremist enviroments in Sweden. The study observes the non-party organized organization Nordfront, that prosecutes reporting news and posesses a inofficial chat group. Using netnografic observations together with content analysis, and with theories concerning digital interaction and radicalization, it is shown that digital functions contributes to reproduce a strong antisemetic and antidemocratic discourse. The study also shows that a membership in the group chat and also being a part of its discussions increases the risk of radicalization of individuals.

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