I am a Ph.D candidate in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS). Previously, I've received a M.Sc. in Psychology from Lund University and a M.A. in International Migration and Ethnic Relations from Malmo University. In my current PhD project, I look at how individuals construct and enact boundaries around the perception of 'Swedishness' as an ethnic and national identity, partially through visual markers of belongingness like skin color or racial appraisals. My research interests include an interdisciplinary approach to migration studies through social psychological theoretical frameworks as well as identity, belongingness, and in/out group relations, race, racialization, and ethnicity.

Previous research projects in Diva

Caroline Adolfsson
Research liaison officer

Presentation

Publications

'We don't use the word race': Boundaries of in-group membership in Sweden

'It feels made up': Post racialism and colorblind ideology within individual constructions of self identity

Afro-Sweden : becoming Black in a color-blind country: by RyanThomas Skinner, foreword by Jason Timbuktu Diakité, Minneapolis,University of Minnesota Press, 2022

Tourism memories: a collaborative reflection on inclusion and exclusion

'I'm Not Swedish Swedish': Self-Appraised National and Ethnic Identification among Migrant-Descendants in Sweden

Research Projects

Achievements

My research environments

Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM)

Rethinking Democracy

Caroline Adolfsson Research liaison officer