Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Tingstad, Vebjørg"
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So What?: Young Housemaids' Perspectives on Their Work and Future Life in Jakarta, Indonesia
Christensen, Sendy Elviera (Master thesis, 2012)This study is based on fieldwork at PKBM Kelapa Gading North Jakarta in Indonesia in 2010. The aim of this study is to provide an analytical concept of the everyday life and future expectations of young girls who are working ... -
Social support of child migrants in Accra, Ghana - The Experiences of Young Female Head porters (Kayayei)
Owusu-Ofori, Nadia (Master thesis, 2018)This study aims to explore the experiences of young female head porters on their social support and how that helps them survive in the city of Accra. It aims to discuss how the social networks of the head porters functioned ... -
Ten years living in crisis: Children's experience and perceptions under austerity in Greece
Pardali, Eirini (Master thesis, 2019)Greece hit by the world financial crisis in 2009, has been in the centre of global attention for being one of the most affected countries mainly to its own fiscal deficiencies that lead the country to a chronical recession. ... -
The Everyday Life of Boarding High School Students in China
Wan, Ying (Master thesis, 2012)The single child and their lives is a big concern in the Chinese society. This study explores the everyday life of boarding high school students on their schooling, study pressure, leisure time and other activities. I ... -
They call me a ‘bad girl’ – Experiences of young mothers in urban Ghana
Tekpor, Sonia Delali (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis draws on the concepts of stigma, social construction, agency, resilience and social support to examine the experiences of young mothers living in urban community who had their first child as teenagers. ... -
To belong or not to belong? Exploring Processes of Integration among Immigrant Children in Norway
Piedu, Gershon (Master thesis, 2017)The aim of the study was to find out the various processes that immigrant children devise to do integration in the receiving society. The structural conditions within which they do integration were included in the search ... -
What happens when mother leaves? Migration, living condition and transnational relation in two Ethiopian areas
Taha, Jemal (Master thesis, 2018)Ethiopia is one of the countries from which an increasing number of transnational migrant parents originate. This results in the separation of the parents from their dependent children in place of origin. Consequently, ... -
Young girls "hidden work" in Rwandan families: Living in the gap between school and labor
Kervel, Hanne Elisabeth (Master thesis, 2011)Based on a field work conducted in Kigali, Rwanda in the fall of 2010, this master's thesis aims to highlight a group of girls who often falls out of the official statistics. Girls who are not enrolled in school and do not ...