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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
and Ethnic Relations
The research field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) is multidisciplinary and incorporates approaches from both the social sciences and humanities. It has a focus on the processes of mobility, inclusion and exclusion and its varying expressions in politics, policies, places, institutions, and everyday lived experiences.
The research environment has an interdisciplinary approach and reflects expertise in:
- Economic history
- Political science
- Social work
- History
- Sociology
- Ethnology
- Social anthropology
- Human geography
- Religious studies
- Cultural studies
The environment largely overlaps with the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), and is a natural meeting point for researchers and others who are jointly committed to investigating migration-related issues, and to working in an interdisciplinary setting.
The plurality of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches of international migration and ethnic relations stimulates new and original research ideas and projects. It also offers an inclusive and innovative academic environment for international students and teachers.
Our research can be broadly divided into four themes:
- patterns of mobility and demography
- early reception and integration
- discourses of and attitudes toward international migration, integration and diversity
- long term integration, citizenship and acculturation
Researchers, publications and projects
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Staff
Caroline Adolfsson - Doctoral student
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Svitlana Babenko - Project researcher
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Staff
Christofer Berglund - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
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Pieter Bevelander - Professor
pieter.bevelander@mau.se -
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Linda Clavier - Senior lecturer
linda.lill@mau.se -
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Erin Cory - Senior lecturer
erin.cory@mau.se -
IDStaff
Inge Dahlstedt - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
inge.dahlstedt@mau.se -
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Johan Ekstedt - Doctoral student
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
HEStaff
Henrik Emilsson - Researcher
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
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Christian Fernandez - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christian.fernandez@mau.se -
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Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
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Anders Hellström - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
MHStaff
Mona Hemmaty - Associate senior lecturer
mona.hemmaty@mau.se -
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Mikaela Herbert - Project researcher
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Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor/Pro dean
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Staff
Nahikari Irastorza - Associate Professor
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Staff
Tina Gudrun Jensen - Researcher
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Staff
Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy - Project researcher
ingrid.j.ramsoey@mau.se -
CJStaff
Christina Johansson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christina.johansson@mau.se -
Staff
Valon Junuzi - Doctoral student
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
Staff
Jacob Lind - Postdoc
jacob.lind@mau.se -
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Vanja Lozic - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
vanja.lozic@mau.se -
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Katarina Mozetic - Project researcher
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Staff
Sayaka Osanami Törngren - Associate Professor/Researcher
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
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Thomas Persson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Bo Petersson - Professor
bo.petersson@mau.se -
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Margareta Popoola - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
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Maja Povrzanovic Frykman - Professor
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Staff
Haodong Qi - Project researcher
haodong.qi@mau.se -
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Erica Righard - Assistant head of dep./Professor
erica.righard@mau.se -
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Michael Strange - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
michael.strange@mau.se -
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Brigitte Suter - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
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Rebecka Söderberg - Doctoral student
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
Staff
Malin Thor Tureby - Professor
malin.thor@mau.se -
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Karen Ravn Vestergaard - Doctoral student
karen.vestergaard@mau.se -
Staff
Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson - Associate Professor
anders.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Eline Wærp - Doctoral student
eline.waerp@mau.se -
CZStaff
Charlotta Zettervall - Senior lecturer
charlotta.zettervall@mau.se
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2024 | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
'We don't use the word race': Boundaries of in-group membership in Sweden
Caroline Adolfsson, Pieter Bevelander, Erica Righard, John Solomos
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2024 | Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary
Displacing Diversity: How Social Mix Interventions are Legitimised, Experienced and Resisted in a Danish Neighbourhood
Rebecka Söderberg, Erica Righard, Carina Listerborn, Tina Gudrun Jensen, Marie Stender
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2024 | Other
How Frontex Frames Non-Rescue as Humanitarian
Eline Wærp
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2024 | Other
Frontex’s Normalization of Crisis at the EU Borders
Eline Wærp
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2024 | Chapter in book
Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and Connection
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman
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2024 | Article in journal
Challenges to Relational Commitments of Preschool Staff in Supporting Children in Contexts with a High Proportion of Early Second Language Learners in Sweden
Johannes Finnman, Maja Söderbäck, Madeleine Sjöman, Jonas Welander, Lena Almqvist
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2023 | Report
Ökar röstande aptiten på medborgarskap?
Pieter Bevelander, Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer
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2023 | Report
City for Everybody -Building ResponsibleAction for Inclusive Local Communities (CIFER): National Report
Mette Edith Lundsfryd Stendevad, Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Nahikari Irastorza
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2023 | Chapter in book
Older migrants and self-realization projects
Aija Lulle, Russell King
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2023 | Chapter in book
Afterword: Home as a Trope of Inequality
Russell King
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Research project
Racialized emotional labour in Swedish welfare organisations
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Research project
"EqualAct" Equal chances in active labour market program placements for different ethnic groups? Examining decision making in the Swedish...
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Research project
International Collaboration for Climate Change Action at the frontlines
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Research project
New perspectives on the electoral participation of immigrants in Sweden
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
Research project
A comparative study of right-wing extremist attitudes and group-focused enmity in Sweden, Poland, and Germany (REA)
pieter.bevelander@mau.se -
Research project
The History of Malmö Muslims until 1990
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Collaborative cross-sectoral research communication as cognitive boosting towards inclusive hiring decisions
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
Future Society and Democracy in Europe
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
Children and youth integration through sport. Examples of Sweden and Uganda
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Research project
A New Cold War? Africa’s place in the emerging global order
john.aberg@mau.se -
Research project
Artificial Intelligence as an issue for Global Political Economy – actors, structures, constraints, and possibilities
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
Climate-Induced Migration in Africa and Beyond: Big Data and Predictive Analytics (CLIMB)
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project
Mobilities, work and welfare citizenship in the Nordic societies (NOS-HS Exploratory workshops)
erica.righard@mau.se -
Research project
Tackling structural & institutional racism in 8 EU Member States
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
European Solidarity, Institutional Changes in Migration Policy, and Adaptation Strategies: De-Othering and Social Integration of Refugees i...
svitlana.babenko@mau.se -
Research project
Growing up in illegality: Young adults’ life histories about the impact of a childhood lived under a long-lasting threat of deportation...
jacob.lind@mau.se -
Research project
Accounting practices in the everyday life of a refugee
stig.westerdahl@mau.se -
Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Organising with or against Formations of Migrant Labour? Challenges and New Directions for Labour Movements in Denmark and Beyond
karen.vestergaard@mau.se -
Research project
Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
maja.frykman@mau.se -
Research project
Transnational families in Europe – Care, inequalities and wellbeing
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery: The case of Kosovo
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
Research project
Exploration of hiring discrimination and possibilities for intervention through eye-tracking
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Research project
Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
Research project
Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Research project
Housing for immigrants and community integration in Europe and beyond: Strategies, policies, dwellings, and governance - MERGING
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project
ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Research project
Illiberal deliberation - communist regime travel controls as state capacity in everyday world politics
astrid.hedin@mau.se -
Research project
Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective - HumMingBird
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Waiting for family reunification
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Research project
Displacing Diversity – How social mix interventions are legitimised, experienced and resisted in a Danish neighbourhood
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
Research project
PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
TiMS: The role of tourism in multicultural societies - adding to stereotypes or contributing to diversity?
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
”Under the hood” of the European Union Agency for Asylum: A study of bureaucratic structures, institutional arrangements and frontline...
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
'You're not Swedish Swedish': Inclusion and belongingness within Sweden
caroline.adolfsson@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
(De)securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EU Border Management and the Production of Borders
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Research project
Jewish and woman. Intersectional and historical perspectives on Jewish women's lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first...
malin.thor@mau.se
Doctoral studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations.
The subject IMER is a broad research topic with a multi and interdisciplinary basis. It's about the consequences of migration for both the society of origin and destination at different levels, on the structural, institutional, group and individual level, and how ethnic relations and ethnic diversity become important characteristics for society due to, or as a result of, migration.
Central adjoining areas of research relate to citizenship, belonging, diaspora and identity, as well as unwanted processes such as marginalisation, exclusion and alienation.
Contact for doctoral studies: Maja Povrzanovic Frykman
General study plan for International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER)