Browsing by Author "Ekbrand, Emelie"

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice: Social workers’ experience and acting space when implementing the Convention within the City of Gothenburg
(2023-01-26) Ekbrand, Emelie; University of Gothenburg/School of Global Studies; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier
The aim with this thesis is to examine how social workers, who work in short-term and long term residential housing activities within the City of Gothenburg and meet children in their work with adults, experience the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice, and their perceived circumstances related to opportunities and obstacles regarding the implementation of CRC. As such, the research question that guided the aim are: How do social worker experience that CRC works in practice? What are the social workers own experience regarding interacting and caring communicating with the children they meet? How do social workers as street-level bureaucrats experience their own acting space when working with CRC in practice? The thesis gives new insight into how children´s rights are met at different levels within the City of Gothenburg, as most previous research has focussed on social secretaires experience of the implementation of the convention, looking at social workers experience can help to get an insight into how the convention are established at different levels. The analysed empirical material consists of five interviews of social workers, who works in these short-term and long-term residential housing activities. The data material has been analysed using content analysis, where theoretical frameworks from care science concepts and street-level bureaucracy theory has been used to interpret the results. The analysis found that these social workers experience a certain ambiguity about how to work with CRC in practice. Both in terms of implementing CRC in their tasks, and how much they should involve the children by communicating with them. In addition, this study also showed that social workers' own experiences of acting space, when working with CRC in practice, as bureaucrats at street-level, are perceived to be limited.
Homeless women´s emergency housing situation in the city of Gothenburg
(2020-08-18) Ekbrand, Emelie; University of Gothenburg / Department of sociology and work science; Göteborgs universitet / / Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap
The aim with this study is to gain an insight into how homeless women, who already are a vulnerable group in the society, experience an even more vulnerable environment when an emergency accommodation only for women relocated and became part of an emergency accommodation where both men and women live. In order to fulfil the purpose two questions were the core of my material: How do the women get affected in a practical sense, when moved from a separate women’s emergency accommodation and become part of an emergency accommodation where both men and women live?; What are these women’s feelings and perceptions of living close to a gender mixed accommodation? This essay consists of interviews with five women who lives in an emergency accommodation in Gothenburg county. The data has been analysed using content analysis, where theoretical underpinnings from Goffman and the intersectionality theory has been used to interpret the results. The study results show that these women´s feelings are ambiguous regarding their new living location. These women experience both greater security and greater insecurity. The security they experience is based more in the physical aspects, as they now have guards around the clock and camera surveillance. The insecurity stems more from the fact that they now live so close to men. The results indicate that these women have different needs that are not met by the municipality.