Mikaela Herbert
Project researcher

Presentation

I hold a PhD in Urban Studies and am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the project In the Gray Space(s) of Housing Provision: Studies of Informal Housing Practices in Two Swedish Contexts. The project aims to explore formal/informal hybridity within the framework of Swedish housing provision and involves empirical studies in Malmö and Skellefteå.

During 2022-2024, I am also participating in the research project Accounting Practices in Refugees' Everyday Lives, which is a collaboration between researchers at Malmö University and Luleå University of Technology.

In the autumn of 2023, I defended my dissertation Winding Roads in the Housing Inequality of Sweden: Stories of Market Practices, Refugee Placement Policies, and Housing Precarity (in Swedish). The dissertation is an ethnographic study of practices and policy and aims to nuance and deepen the understanding of the consequences of housing inequality in a Swedish context by analyzing the specific positions of asylum seekers and newly arrived individuals within the framework of the Swedish housing policy situation.