Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Derman, William"
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A critical perspective on the global political ecology of aquaculture and sustainability
Faye, Per Ditlef (Master thesis, 2018)This thesis takes a critical view of the perspective and discourse of UN and FAO on sustainable fed aquaculture by analysing the “World Ocean Assessment of United Nations” and the FAO “Report on the State of the World’s ... -
A stateless minority in Southeast Asia : human rights violation and the migration of the Rohingya to Thailand
Theeraratstit, Kulnataporn (Master thesis, 2016-11-22)Migration is not the new thing in the world today. The first wave of the migration happened as the aftermath of the World War I and the World War II. The existent of the Rohingya in Myanmar is considered as one of the ... -
Bringing the workers' rights back in? : the discourse and politics of fortifying core labour standards through a labour-trade linkage
Pahle, Simon (PhD Thesis;2011:16, Doctoral thesis, 2011)Throughout the 1990s the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) conducted a campaign to convince states to institute a linkage between the international labour and trade regimes (also dubbed a social ... -
Exploring the human rights of the Rohingya : a case study of Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh
Abiru, Nozomi (Master thesis, 2018)The thesis explores the human rights of Muslim ethnic group from Myanmar, the Rohingya. The research focuses on what happened to the Rohingya in Myanmar, what their current living conditions are in the refugee camp in ... -
"I live without a plan" : a livelihood study of people with rejected asylum applications and a protracted stay in Norway
Anker, Eline (Master thesis, 2017)Around 18,000 people live without residence papers in Norway, the majority with rejected asylum applications (Zhang, 2008). To restrict immigration, Norwegian law limits rejected asylum seekers’ access to social rights and ... -
Land reform and populism : amending South Africa's constitution
Cloete, Grant Colin (Master thesis, 2020)Land reform is a highly contentious issue in post-apartheid South Africa. Immediately after apartheid ended, the new African National Congress (ANC) government, on advice from the World Bank, adopted a willing buyer-willing ... -
Protection of unaccompanied minor refugees’ rights in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Berg, Christina Myrvang (Master thesis, 2017)In 2015, the total number of refugees in the world reached 21.3 million. Over half of these were children. And the majority of these minors were unaccompanied, traveling alone without their family, trying to find a safer ... -
Public policies to unaccompanied immigrant children in São Paulo and Oslo
Hallstrøm, Michelle Rodrigues Franco (Master thesis, 2019)In this Master thesis, the cities of São Paulo and Oslo are the points of study of Public Policies for unaccompanied minor asylum seeker (UMAs). São Paulo is the first city in Brazil to develop public policies for this ... -
Racial discrimination in Norway : Africans experiences while using healthcare services
Taadi, Peter Kofi (Master thesis, 2021)The thesis is a qualitative study involving fifteen Africans living in Norway. The study explored their experiences of racial discrimination when using healthcare services. In addition, participants’ subsequent use of ... -
Racism in Norway : Africans and Norwegian-Africans understanding and experiences
Ibrahim, Hamdiya (Master thesis, 2019)This is a qualitative study with 16 Africans and Norwegian-Africans from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Sudan. The participants were interviewed to explore their racial experiences, coping strategies, their knowledge of human ... -
Racism in Norwegian education : exploring understanding and experiences of Africans and African Norwegians
Ankamah, Urban (Master thesis, 2021)Following the painful murder of George Floyd in the united states by a police officer in 2020 summer due to racism, there has been increasing concerns about the need to address racism and discrimination issues that racial ... -
Rights-Based Freshwater Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Beyond an Exclusionary Focus on Domestic Water Uses
van Koppen, Barbara; Hellum, Anne; Mehta, Lyla; Derman, William; Schreiner, Barbara (Chapter, 2017) -
Rural women in Afghanistan : a gendered approach to the right to water, participation and non-discrimination
Verne, Karen Johanne (Master thesis, 2017)Afghanistan is a fragile, war-ravaged and mostly semi-arid country in which water is scarce and droughts are common. In many of the country’s 32,000 rural villages, Afghan women bear the responsibility for the households’ ... -
Social impacts of the construction of large dams on upstream livelihood : the case of Khersan-3 dam on Khersan river
Motevallian, Mahsa (Master thesis, 2017)This thesis analyses the social consequences of the construction of large dams on upstream inhabitants. It presents a background about the purposes and the consequences of the large dam constructions in the world as well ... -
Social integration of Nepalese women into Norwegian society : integration as an opportunity or challenge
Singh, Rozabela (Master thesis, 2016-08-11)The purpose of this research is to study social integration process of Nepalese immigrant women in light of the Norwegian government’s integration policies. The dissertation is based upon semi-structured interviews with ... -
Tales from Pianura : the construction of a social dump and its resisting community
Iengo, Ilenia (Master thesis, 2016-08-11)Through the lens of urban political ecology and environmental justice framework, this master thesis project investigates the history and creation of Pianura as the social dump of the city of Napoli, Italy and the grievances ... -
The importance of work for highly educated refugees in Norway
Gobeti, Elina (Master thesis, 2017)In 2016, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security highlighted the importance of refugee participation in labor in several reports. The ministry stresses the dependency of the Norwegian welfare model on high tax revenue, ... -
The reconstruction of communal property : membership and rights in Limpopo's restitution process
Sjaastad, Espen; Derman, William; Manenzhe, Tshililo (CLTS Working paper;2011:8, Working paper, 2011) -
Tightening the chain : How the Norwegian Government Pension Fund can make investments more responsible
Foss, Diego Alexander Vaula (Master thesis, 2017)The Norwegian government pension fund is the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world today, holding values of more than 7800 billion Norwegian Kroner. The fund has chosen a responsible investment strategy that relies ... -
Violence against women in the Philippines
Garcia, Tria Marie Rodriguez (Master thesis, 2020)Violence against women is a public crime and human rights violation that has negative social, economic, and health consequences for women and their communities. Violence against women must be studied in a specific context ...