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.

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Seminar, 4 February

MIM Migration seminar: Refugee Migration and Cities in Jordan, Turkey and...

Seminar, 11 February

MIM Migration seminar – James F. Hollifield

Seminar, 18 February

MIM Migration seminar: From breaking-ice to breaking-out: Integration as an...

Seminar, 18 March

MIM Migration seminar: What is a Ghetto? Examples from Denmark 1850-2018

Workshop, 28 April - 29 April

IMISCOE PhD Lead Workshop on Norms and Values

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Reflecting on the refugee crisis

GLIMER film

GLIMER announces the launch of the project film, 'GLIMER (Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees)'

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This policy research alert sums up the results of the briefing paper "Valuing Gender Equality: Ideas, Practices and Actors in Everyday Integration Work". The paper investigates how the value of gender equality is understood and conveyed in integration work in Europe, especially after the increase in state and non‐state initiatives to integrate newcomers. We discuss fieldwork from four European countries - Germany, Hungary, Poland and Sweden.

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Winter 2020

Our research

MIM was established in January 2007 with the goal of strengthening Malmö University’s migration research profile. Further to this, MIM was also envisaged as a platform to expand Malmö University’s international networks and build bridges between the university and non-academic actors. MIM consists of a core of senior and junior researchers and a large international network of affiliated researchers. MIM regularly hosts prominent professors in IMER from around the world.

The research conducted at MIM is multidisciplinary and is pursued in collaboration with international partners. It is funded either nationally or by the EU and can be classified under the following 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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Affiliated researchers

Affiliated researchers at MIM

Björn Fryklund

Professor Emeritus, Malmö University. Publications

Dr Liliia Korol

– is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the National University of Ostroh Academy in Ukraine. Her main research interests are in the field of inter-ethnic relations and inter-ethnic attitudes, including tolerance, prejudice, and discrimination toward immigrant and ethnic minority groups. She is also interested in the adjustment of immigrant-origin youth in host countries. Dr Korol is the author of more than 30 scientific publications (mostly first- and single-authored research papers), including those published in internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals as well as top-level journals in her field in Ukraine and Russia.

Katarina Mozetič
– is a PhD Research Fellow at Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Her research project explores the occupational aspirations and experiences of highly educated refugees in Oslo, Malmö and Munich. Publications

Floris Peters

– is a postdoctoral researcher in the "Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition" (MiLifeStatus) project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by professor Maarten P. Vink. He holds a PhD from Maastricht University (cum laude) on the relevance of citizenship for the socio-economic integration of immigrants. Furthermore, during 2018-2020, Floris is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM). Publications

Mahama Tawat

– is an Associate Researcher at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Otago in New Zealand and other postgraduate degrees from Stockholm, Malmö and Dalarna Universities in Sweden. His academic endeavours revolve around comparative migration policy with a focus on the Nordic countries, the European Union-Africa migration dialogue, comparative social policy and public management reforms (good governance). He was an assistant professor in public policy at National Research University, Higher School of Economics. He was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Comparative Immigration Studies of the University of California at San Diego in 2016 and visiting lecturer at the University of Bamberg in 2019. His publications have appeared in such academic outlets as Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions; East European Politics; International Journal of Cultural Policy and the London School of Economics and Political Science Blogs. https://mahamatawat.weebly.com/

The Migration Seminar

This is a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from all faculties at Malmö University with an interest in migration, integration, diversity and related issues. Master’s students interested in the research field are welcome to participate in the Migration Seminar.

The purpose of the seminar is to facilitate an exchange of ideas and knowledge, and to stimulate a pluralism of perspectives, theories and methods. It offers a wide variety of research-related activities ranging from paper and project presentations to specially-invited guests and panel debates. It also hosts the seminar series of the Willy Brandt Guest Professor. As the seminar has a distinctly international profile, both with respect to attendance and topics, most sessions are held in English.

Seminars on Thursdays

Usually the Migration seminars are held Thursdays at 14.15-16.00 at MIM’s seminar room on the 9th floor of Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, but due to the Covid-19 situation the seminars are held online via zoom.

21 January
Policies on marginalised migrant communities during Covid-19: A cross-country comparison with international guidance
Elisabeth Mangrio, Associate Professor, Malmö University
Michael Strange, Senior lecturer, Malmö University
Louise Dalingwater, Professor, Sorbonne University
Slobodan Zdravkovic, Associate Professor, Malmö University

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/69364861274?pwd=Z1NhM1ZScFVYamMxcmpNUTMzME1wZz09
Meeting ID: 693 6486 1274
Passcode: 212440


4 February
Refugee Migration and Cities in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden; using participatory 360-video as a method for research
Josepha Wessels, Senior lecturer, Malmö University

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/62763668739?pwd=NlhoVzBTN0dHSzl6VmllMWNxQ1FnUT09
Meeting ID: 627 6366 8739
Passcode: 877611


11 February
Title TBA
James Hollifield, Professor, Southern Methodist University


18 February
From breaking-ice to breaking-out: Integration as an opportunity creation process
Quang Evansluong, Visiting Researcher, University of Gothenburg
Marcela Ramirez Pasillas, Assistant Professor, Jönköping University

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/68089010207?pwd=dGxqd1hmSm05dXk2a3VwMjlvaFlKQT09
Meeting ID: 680 8901 0207
Passcode: 818137


4 March
TBA


11 March
Winner MIM Master Award: Expatriate humanitarians working in displacement crises - A mixed-method research of occupational stress and impacts of job performance
Lisa Green, Malmö University

 

18 March
What is a Ghetto? Examples from Denmark 1850-2018
Garbi Schmidt, Professor, Roskilde University

 

25 March
TBA


8 April
Title TBA
Haodong Qi, Project researcher, Malmö University


15 April
Title TBA
Erica Righard, Associate Professor, Malmö University


22 April
Title TBA
Pieter Bevelander, Professor, Malmö University


29 April
Title TBA
Nahikari Irastorza, Research fellow, Malmö University
Jason Tucker, Senior lecturer, Malmö University


20 May
50% seminar: Title TBA
Rebecka Söderberg, PhD Student, Malmö University


27 May
Title TBA
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Associate Professor, Malmö University


3 June
50% seminar: Title TBA
Beint Bentsen, PhD Student, Malmö University

 

Guest Professorship in Memory of Willy Brandt

The Guest Professorship within the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Memory of Willy Brandt is a donation to Malmö University financed by the City of Malmö when the University was inaugurated.

Willy Brandt Series of Working Papers

International migration and ethnic relations

The aim of the professorship is to strengthen research at Malmö University within the field of IMER. As IMER has a strong international network, the City of Malmö sought, via the guest professorship, to strengthen contacts with international experts in order to ensure that they would become an integral part of research and teaching. An international guest professorship creates a constant and dynamic exchange of knowledge and enhances the centre’s academic strength. The donation also funds a research fellow and a PhD position.

Who was Willy Brandt?

Willy Brandt was West Germany’s Chancellor between 1969-1974. 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.

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 (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 (2001 spring)
(1925-2011)

Rainer Bauböck (2000 autumn)  

 

Advisory Board

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.

Guy Baeten, Professor, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University

Malin Ideland, Professor, Department of Natural Science, Mathematics and Society, Malmö University

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

Jonas Otterbeck, Professor, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University

 

 

Nordic Migration Research

Nordic Migration Research is an organisation of individuals and institutions conducting or using research related to different aspects of international migration and ethnic relations such as integration, ethnicity/race, culture, religion, marginalisation, citizenship, nationalism, discrimination and racism.

IMISCOE

IMISCOE is Europe's largest network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The network involves 45 member institutes and over 700 scholars and focuses on comparative research, publications, the organization of events, PhD training, awards and communication.

MILSA

MILSA is a knowledge-based platform that addresses issues such as health and stimulation of physical activity among newly arrived refugees, the implementation of work ability evaluations and the needs of newly arrived refugees when it comes to health information. The County Administrative Board of Scania and Malmö University are responsible for coordinating MILSA.

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