Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare

Spring 2024

New perspectives on the electoral participation of immigrants in Sweden
- Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Professor/Pro dean, Malmö University
Pieter Bevelander, Professor, Malmö University
Vanja Mosbach, Researcher, Malmö University
Haodong Qi, Researcher, Malmö University

Hands-on storytelling: Researching diasporic situatedness through Design
- Yénika Castillo Muñoz, Interaction Design teacher, K3-Design unit, Malmö University

The Dignity of Difference: Personal Names in Postmigrant Academia
- Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Professor of Ethnology, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University 

Uplifting of borders and liberalisation of rights: The impact of TPD on Ukrainian protection-seekers’ (im)mobilities
- Larissa Kokonowskyj, project researcher, German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)
Katarina Mozetič, PhD, researcher, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University 

The 1989 Lucia Day Decision in the Recent History of Swedish Migration Management
- Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn, PhD Fellow, Institute for Social Research, University of Oslo

Externalised migration control and relational space
- Jonna Petersson, Senior lecturer, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University 

Winners of the MIM master thesis award 2023:
Silent Exodus: A study on Gender-Based Violence and Migration Decision-Making of Women from Honduras in the USA
- Andrea Leman, former IMER student, Malmö University
To Identify With a Memory: A Case Study on Nubian Post-displacement Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Egypt 
- Yahia Saleh, former IMER student, Malmö University

Revisiting ‘sexual migration’ – intersectionality and LGBTQIA+ experiences of migration and settlement in the United Kingdom
- Sarah Scuzzarello, (PhD Lund University) is Associate Professor of Migration at the University of Sussex and affiliated researcher at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. 

Understanding and supporting people with disability and family members from Syrian and Iraqi refugee backgrounds: An Australian perspective
- Angela Dew, Professor in Discipline Lead, Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University, Australia

Listening and Mobilization in Immigrant São Paulo: Pandemic and Responses to Gender-based Violence
- Bruna Rossetti Mendonça, PhD student, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil

Diversity in recruitment and equality data collection in Sweden and the UK
- Amanda Heath, work and organizational psychologist specialising in discrimination, diversity, and inclusion, currently working as a researcher, Linnaeus University.

Temporal Racism and the invisibilization of work: or Why Some Can Eat Ice Cream with Their Kids While Others Cannot
- Paula Mulinari, Associate professor of Social work, Malmö University

Autumn 2023

My Story + Your Story = Our Story: Digital Storytelling as Community-Building Practice in Uganda
- Erin Cory, Ph.D, senior lecturer in Media & Communication Studies at Malmö University,
Keith Mark Nyende, Team and Projects Coordinator at the Cultural Avenue, Uganda

Final seminar: ’Vi säger inte ras’: Boundaries of in-group membership in Sweden
 - Caroline Adolfsson, Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Half-term seminar: Governing Irregularity in Kosovo: The Productive Powers of Post-Deportation
- Valon Junuzi, Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Climate Change Migration from a Pacific Island Perspective – The Anthropology of Emerging Legal Orders
- Silja Klepp, Professor of Human Geography, UNESCO Chair for Integrated Marine Sciences, Department of Geography, Kiel University

New Directions in Displacement and Refugee Research
- Holly Reed, Professor of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)

Final seminar: ”Under the hood” of the European Union Agency for Asylum
- Johan Ekstedt, Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

A Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Palestinian Women of Syria Speaking Back
- Mette Edith Stendevad (PhD in Sociology, University of Leicester)  is currently working on the project “City for Everybody- Building Responsible Action for Inclusive Local Communities" (CIFER) at Malmö University.

“Live-in-Between”: De-Othering, Solidarity, and Temporary Protection of Russia’s War Refugees from Ukraine in Sweden, Germany and Poland
- Svitlana Babenko, Associate professor, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Final seminar: Displacing diversity. How social mix interventions are legitimized, experienced, and resisted in a Danish neighbourhood.
- Rebecka Söderberg, Doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Mathematics education from perspectives of integration and migration
- Petra Svensson Källberg, Senior lecturer, Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society, Malmö University
Ulrika Ryan, Senior lecturer, Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society, Malmö University

Tourism in Multicultural Societies – addressing the importance of understanding social sustainability and inclusion
- Eva Maria Jernsand, Researcher, University of Gothenburg
Helena Kraff, Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg
Emma Björner, Researcher, University of Gothenburg
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Associate professor, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Kids in action promoting health equity in socially deprived areas
- Margareta Rämgård, associate professor and PI, Care Science, Malmö University
Rathi Ramji, associate senior lecturer, Care Science, Malmö University
Katarina Sjögren Forss, Associate professor, Care Science, Malmö University
Therese Sterner, Senior Lecturer, Care Science, Malmö University
Slobodan Zdravkovic, Associate professor, Care Science, Malmö Institute for studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University
Louise Burenby, Pdh student, Care Science, Malmö University
Gabriella Isma, Senior lecturer, Care Science, Malmö University
Anders Kottorp, Dean/Professor, Malmö University
Elisabeth Mangrio, Associate professor, Care Science, Malmö Institute for studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University

Radical Conviviality: Toward Alliances in Spaces of Post-Otherness
- Prof. Dr. Regina Römhild, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

Spring 2023

Using Remote Sensing for Understanding the Environmental Conditions and Internal Displacement: The Case of Somalia
- Tuba Bircan, Assistant professor of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

They didn’t ask to be refugees : Eco-cycle shelters for forced climate migration
- Marwa Dabaieh, Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University

Migration, territorial inequalities and spatial justice
- Magdalena Ulceluse, Associate senior lecturer, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Winners of the MIM Master Essay Award 2022:
South-South migration: media’s representation of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil
- Bruna Badaró, graduate from Malmö University’s IMER master’s program
Unaccompanied foreign minors in the Spanish media
- Tábata Martín Olea, graduate from Malmö University’s IMER master’s program

Participatory research on transnational families and care: Insights and reflections from ongoing research in Sweden, France, Spain and the UK
- Rosa Mas Giralt, University of Leeds, Tony Capstick, University of Reading, Grady Walker, University of Reading, Laura Oso, Universidade da Coruña
Andrea Souto, Universidade da Coruña, Virginie Baby-Colin, Université Aix-Marseille, Polina Polash, Université Aix-Marseille, Brigitte Suter, Malmö University

Ethnic/racial Ascription-Based or Nationality-based Discrimination? Results from the Online Survey Experiments in Japan
- Kikuko Nagayoshi, Associate professor at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo

Challenging the Muslimification of “Muslims” in survey research on so-called “liberal democratic values”: why culture matters beyond religion
- Paul Statham, Professor, Director Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), Editor, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS)

Labour migration based complementary pathways: a tool for fairer sharing of responsibilities in the context of global displacement?
- Zvezda Vankova, researcher at the Law Faculty of Lund University

The Role of Social and Cultural Capital in Accessing the Labor Market: The case of Syrians in Sweden
- Dalia Abdelhady, Associate professor, Lund University

Culture’s role in integration: The expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
- Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Member, National Academy of Sciences

Branding the deep nation – Self-exoticization and Constructions of Swedes as a ‘Nature-Loving People’ in the Image Bank of Sweden
- Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Malmö University, and Katarina Mattsson, Södertörn University

PhD seminar: Social and legal vulnerability in the wait for Swedish family reunification
- Hilda Gustafsson, Doctoral Student, Malmö University 

Convoluted mobility: On the precarious movements of transnational migrant workers
- Marlene Spanger, Associate Professor, Aalborg University

Planning PhD seminar: Organising with or against Formations of Migrant Labour? Challenges and Potentialities for Labour Movements in Denmark and Beyond
- Karen Ravn Vestergaard, Doctoral Student, Malmö University

Changing roles, emerging networks. Local government as employer, procurer, and entrepreneur in labour market integration
- Emma Ek Österberg, associate professor, School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg
Nanna Gillberg, associate professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg
Maria Norbäck, associate professor, director of Work and Employment Research Centre, Dpt of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, university of Gothenburg
Patrik Zapata, professor, School of Public Administration, university of Gothenburg
María José Zapata Campos, associate professor, Dpt of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg

Accounting for migration: an inquiry into a research conversation in the margins 
- Amanda Curry, Luleå University
Mikaela Herbert, Malmö University
Johan Sandström, Luleå university of technology
Stig Westerdahl, Malmö University

Pursuing futures through children: Crisis, social reproduction, and transformation in Burundi’s transnational families
- Simon Turner, Professor, Lund University, and Editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies 

Migration Society 2.0 Lecture Series

Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) is an international research centre with a multidisciplinary profile and a strong international presence. Within the centre and its extensive network, researchers develop, explore and exchange knowledge of international migration and ethnic diversity. The objective of the Migration Society 2.0 series is to draw attention to and enhance understanding of the new forms of diversity that migration scholars are talking about under banners such as super-diversity, everyday diversity, commonplace diversity, post-migration society and so on. We are specifically interested in how diversity is normalized and resisted on different levels and spheres of society. How is this normality construed and co-produced by its own generation of agents and subjects? What kind of mindset and strategy of co-existence is diversity, really? And how is it sustained in public imagery and narratives? To answer these questions, we have handpicked seven particularly interesting and original researchers from the diversity field.

Autumn 2020 – watch the seminars 

Keith Banting, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and Stauffer Dunning fellow at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University;
Will Kymlicka, Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen’s University.

Beyond National Identity: Shared Membership, Deservingness,
and Inclusive Solidarity in Diverse Societies

Maurice Crul, Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Identities, Diversity and Inclusion Program, University of Amsterdam

Becoming a Minority. How do people without migration background influence the living climate in majority-minority neighbourhoods?

Eva van Belle, Assistant Professor of Economics and Post doc at NCCR – on the move, University of Neuchatel

The immigrant-native wage gap: is there a gap and is it "fair"?

Miri Song, Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent

How should we (teachers and students) talk about racism
in the classroom and in our research?

Susanne Wessendorf, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

Social exclusion, symbolic boundaries and convivial labour in
East London’s context of ongoing immigration

Who was Willy Brandt?

Willy Brandt was West Germany’s Chancellor between 1969 and 1974. He was forced to seek refuge in Sweden during the Second World War and developed strong ties with the country. In order to emphasise the importance and status of the scientific investment, the City of Malmö obtained the family’s permission to name a guest professorship after him.

Guest professors

Magdalena Nowicka (spring 2020)

Ellen Percy Kraly (spring and autumn 2019)

Per Mouritsen (autumn 2018)

Maarten Vink (autumn 2017 and spring 2018) 

Ruth Wodak (spring and autumn 2017)

Keith Banting (2016 October-December)

Joaquín Arango (2016 August- September )

Giuseppe Sciortino (2015 autumn and 2016 spring)

Garbi Schmidt (2014 and 2015 spring)

Miri Song (2013 autumn)

Russell King (2012 and 2013 spring)

Ayhan Kaya (2011 autumn)

Raymond Taras  (2010 autumn and 2011 spring)

Daniel Hiebert (2009 autumn and 2010 spring)

Peggy Levitt (2009 spring)

Carlo Ruzza (2008 autumn)

Yasemin Soysal (2007 autumn and 2008 spring)

Cas Mudde (2007 spring)

David Ingleby (2007 spring)

Ewa R. Morawska (2006 autumn)

Nina Glick Schiller (2006 spring)

Sandro Cattacin (2005 autumn)

Nikos Papastergiadis (2005 spring)

Marco Martiniello (2004 autumn) 

Don DeVoretz 1942-2020 (2004 spring)

Katherine Fennelly (2003 autumn)

Thomas Faist (2003 spring)

Grete Brochmann (2002 autumn) 

Jock Collins (2002 spring)

Ellie Vasta (2001 autumn)

Thomas Faist (2001 spring)

John Rex 1925-2011 (2001 spring)

Rainer Bauböck (2000 autumn)  

Kent Andersson (Chair) Member of Steering Committee of the international network METROPOLIS, Member of External Advisory Committee of the European Commission-funded Network of Excellence IMISCOE, Mayor of the City of Malmö.

Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, Bristol University, och Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol 

Linda Clavier, Senior lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Malmö University

Anne Harju, Associate Professor/Senior lecturer, Department of Childhood, Education and Society, Malmö University

Jonas Otterbeck, Professor, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, the Aga Khan University

Peter Scholten, Professor of Migration and Diversity Policy, the Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University