Previous research shows that foreign-born women make up the group with the lowest employment rate in Sweden and face immense challenges in the Swedish labor market. The purpose of this study is to investigate foreign-born women's own experiences of the Swedish labor market. We specifically focused on investigating the ways in which gender and ethnicity play part in the way foreign-born women experience their possibilities in the Swedish labor market. To achieve the purpose of the study, we have chosen to conduct a qualitative study based on seven qualitative semi-structured interviews with foreign-born women living in Sweden. The study's theoretical framework is based on the intersectional perspective with gender and ethnicity as analytical categories. The results of the study show that foreign-born women's experiences of the Swedish labor market are affected by their gender and ethnicity, but also by the interaction of these factors. Furthermore, the results show that foreign-born women are motivated by having a job and see it as a driving force to achieve equality with their male partners and mainstream society.

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There has been an increase in research on the internationalization of so-called born-globalfirms. However, this research primarily focused on the internationalization process duringcalmer times. So far, little attention has been paid to internationalization during times of crisis.Especially for the recently happened COVID-19 crisis, research on the implications for bornglobal internationalization has been neglected. Nonetheless, born-global firms face manyliabilities in their internationalization processes, even getting more severe in times of crisis.This study aims to fill the existing knowledge gap by examining the internationalization ofSwedish born-global firms and their challenges due to COVID-19. Finally, we seek to makerecommendations for firms and entrepreneurs on how to cope with those hurdles.This research was conducted using qualitative semi-structured interviews with the founders orco-founders of six Swedish companies that fit the specifics of a born-global firm.The empirical findings show that all firms internationalize quickly abroad by using variousstrategies. While some follow relatively gradual approaches, others internationalize withintheir home regions or globally from the beginning. Also, the firms faced challenges due toilliquid customers, funding issues, or impeded networking. On the other hand, many companiescould discover new opportunities due to the crisis that supported their survival in abroadmarkets. Herewith the digital infrastructure and being online was distinctive. Eventually, it waspossible to conclude supportive behavioral patterns for entrepreneurs and firms when facingcrises.

With over 18% of the Canadian population born outside of Canada, the health of immigrants is an important concern. Heart health is of particular importance because heart disease is the leading cause of death among men and women in Canada. Using data from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS), the purpose of this thesis is to first establish whether immigrants to Canada have lower rates of coronary heart disease (CHD), and high blood pressure (HBP) than native-born Canadians, and second to determine the lifestyle and psychosocial factors that predict heart health and compare them between immigrants and native-born Canadians. Regression and survival analyses of the NPHS data indicate that lifestyle and psychosocial risk factors such as smoking status, body mass index, alcohol consumption and depression affect immigrants and native-born Canadians similarly. Immigration variables such as length of time in the host country and country of origin are significant risk factors for HBP, however, not in the incidence of CHD. Immigrants were more likely to have HBP than native-born Canadians. However, immigrants have a significantly lower incidence of CHD than native-born Canadians. Native-born Canadians are at a higher risk of heart disease at a younger age than immigrants. These results suggest that there must be other factors relating to immigration affecting the heart health of immigrants. Due to the complexity and high incidence of heart disease in Canada, it may never be possible to ascertain all of the risk factors for heart disease. However, this study has identified several key risk factors and has excluded other variables as possible risk factors. The risk factors identified in this study can form the basis for the development of heart health programs to target all Canadians-both native-and foreign-born. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

The greenhouses play a key role in food sustainable production, the purpose of the greenhouses is to make an artificial suitable environment to grow different kinds of plants. The cost of energy used in the greenhouses to ensure the optimum temperature, humidity, and CO2 concentration, makes up a large part of the final cost of food. Due to global warming, the successive energy crises, and the food crises, the need to make the greenhouses more energy efficient and to utilize renewable energy resources is rapidly increasing. The enclosed water curtain cooling system meets the special requirement of the greenhouse cooling system, and it has potential energy savings when it is integrated with other systems such as heat pumps, underground water sources, and surplus heat energy recovery. This system involves two special nylon foils, and a thin layer of water flows between the two foils, the two foils will be stuck to eachother by the cohesive force of the water-detergent mixture, the detergent was added to decrease the water surface tension and ensure the even distribution of the water-detergent mixture over the nylon foils. In this study, an experimental model of the enclosed water curtain was made and two sets of tests were conducted, the first set was at room temperature around 20°C, and the second test was at room temperature around 25.7 °C with an electrical heater, each set contains three tests to measure the cooling capacity of the curtain, and each test takes 2 minutes, the curtain dimensions were height and width of 1.04 m and 1.20 m respectively. By measuring the difference between the average inlet and outlet temperature of the water-detergent mixture before and after the curtain, and the mixture mass flow rate during the test period, the cooling capacityof the curtain was calculated using the energy balance equation.It was found that the curtain cooling capacity increases with the increase of ambient temperature, The large heat transfer area of the curtain which allows using higher water temperature for cooling, and the useful features of the water membrane like the high absorption of the wavelength of infrared and the high transparency of the wavelength of visible light, make this system meets the special requirements of the greenhouses cooling system. However, to be able to apply this system in real-life, the design of the curtain should be improved, and suitable materials should be chosen to make it more reliable. Also, All tests in this study were conducted in the workshop in the absence of solar radiation, therefore, the actual performance of the curtain needs to be evaluated with the presence of solar radiation, to be able to study the effects of the direct and diffuse solar radiation with various spectrum range.

Since the introduction of the Born and Rytov approximations for use in random wave propagation some forty years ago, a controversy has boiled over the regions of validity and relative merits of the methods. Although the methods fail for strong fluctuations and distant path lengths, these two perturbation methods are the only approaches available for weak fluctuations in a random in homogeneous media. The approximations have also been applied to the inverse problem for optical and acoustical tomography. The intent of this thesis is to investigate the work of previous authors and attempt to clarify the distinctions of each method. The conclusion will be reached that neither approximation is necessarily better than the other in general for all applications. A careful consideration of the problem following the points given should point towards the use of one approximation over the other. / Master of Science

By studying the representation of foreign-born women in the Swedish labour market policy debate, between the years 2010-2020, I want to discover if there has been a change of the rhetoric in political debates and how that affects the activities provided to foreign-born immigrant women. My conclusion is that there has been a change towards a more individualistic approach, with a representation of the group that further amplifies systematic discrimination in the Swedish labour market system. By creating a group with weaker standing on the labour market that can be used as low wage labour under the cover of support, the rhetoric can be seen as upholding the capitalist system.

In the presence and aftermath of armed conflict and war, there has always been contact between armed troops and civilians ranging from superficial to intimate; and from these contacts children have been born. These children are so-called Children Born of War (CBOW), who are typically fathered by foreign soldiers and born to local mothers. Their existence is a worldwide and timeless, yet widely ignored reality – to the disservice of these children and their communities. German and Austrian Occupation Children (GOC resp. AOC), whom I will investigate in this dissertation, are subgroups of this worldwide population of CBOW and are fathered by a soldier of the allied forces “occupying” Germany and Austria after World War II and born to a German resp. Austrian mother. 74 Several studies have described the hardships these children faced when growing up in postwar Germany and Austria, being born as a child of the enemy and out of wedlock into a defeated and tarnished former National Socialist society, in which losing the war and the regime did not equal losing the National Socialist mindset. Studies already showed that growing up as an occupation child in postwar Germany likely included experiences of discrimination and stigmatization (e.g. Aßmann et al., 2015), as well as heightened risks to be subjected to child maltreatment and to suffer from depression, somatization, PTSD, and long-term attachment issues (Glaesmer et al., 2017; Kaiser et al., 2016, 2015; Kaiser, Kuwert, & Glaesmer, 2015). There have been case-studies and reports from the field of history and social sciences about occupation children voicing problems with identity and identity formation, but systematic, empirical studies covering this topic have been lacking thus far. This dissertation intended to close this gap in literature by systematically investigating identity issues and questions of identity that occupation children face. We applied a mixed-method approach in an effort to gain different types of data and ultimately a better coverage and understanding of these topics.:INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 4 Historical Background ...................................................................................................... 4 Theoretical Background ................................................................................................... 8 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................ 14 METHODOLOGY ............................................................................................................. 15 Study Design & Samples .................................................................................................. 15 Instruments ...................................................................................................................... 17 CORE PUBLICATIONS OF THIS DISSERTATION ...................................................... 21 Publication I ..................................................................................................................... 22 Publication II ................................................................................................................... 34 Publication III .................................................................................................................. 47 DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................... 61 Summary of Findings ....................................................................................................... 61 Strengths and Limitations ................................................................................................. 62 Outlook ........................................................................................................................... 63 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................... 65 APPENDICES .................................................................................................................... 72 1. Abbreviations ............................................................................................................. 72 2. Zusammenfassung der Arbeit ..................................................................................... 73 3. Erklärung über die eigenständige Abfassung der Arbeit .............................................. 77 4. Darstellung des eigenen Beitrags ................................................................................. 78 5. Curriculum Vitae ........................................................................................................ 79 6. Publikationsverzeichnis ............................................................................................... 80 7. Danksagung ................................................................................................................ 81 8. Teilnahmebestätigung „Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis“............................................... 83 9. GOC Questionnaire ................................................................................................... 84