Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare

30 March
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

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13 April
PhD seminar
Hilda Gustafsson, Doctoral Student, Malmö University 

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

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27 April
20% PhD seminar: Organising with or against Formations of Migrant Labour? Challenges and New Directions for Labour Movements in Denmark and Beyond
Karen Ravn Vestergaard, Doctoral Student, Malmö University


4 May
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

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11 May
TBA
Stig Westerdahl, Senior lecturer, Malmö University

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

Autumn 2022

Explaining Diverging Immigration-Integration Policy in Sweden and Denmark: a Research Review
- Christian Fernández, Associate professor, Malmö University

Similar disruptions, different reactions? Refugee crises and the politicization of immigration in Sweden and Switzerland
- Anders Hellström, Senior lecturer, Malmö University, Marco Bitschnau, Research Fellow, University of Neuchâtel, Didier Ruedin, Senior lecturer, University of Neuchâtel
Marie Sundström, Doctoral student, University of Gothenburg

Opening up and closing down: spaces, people and relations in a mixed neighbourhood in Malmö, Sweden
- Tina Gudrun Jensen, Researcher, Malmö University and Erica Righard, Associate professor, Malmö University

When does the ‘immigrant’ stop migrating? The social understanding of immigrants in Swedish immigrant/integration-policy 1964-2000
- Peter Eriksson, Doctoral student, Malmö University

Syrian Families in Flux; a longitudinal study based on multi-sited, digital and visual ethnography conducted over two decades
- Josepha Ivanka Wessels, Associate Professor, Malmö University

Where do we go from here? Anthropological reflections on the role
of the imagination in human (im)mobility
- Noel Salazar, Professor, Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven

One step back or two steps forward? Pathways in Swedish municipalities' integration policies after the 'crisis'
- Måns Lundstedt, Research assistant, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Migrants Trust in the Swedish Migration Agency. Exploring influencing factors through large scale survey data
- Carolin Schütze, Postdoc at Copenhagen Business School and Affiliated researcher at MIM, Malmö University

Multiscalar un-homing: Residents’ experiences of interventions for social mix
- Rebecka Söderberg, Doctoral student, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Final seminar: Frontex in Wonderland: Banal Securitization and Normalization in the Field of EUropean External(ized) Border Management
- Eline Waerp, Doctoral student, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

How Ontological (in) Security Shapes Refugee Women’s Sense of Belonging in Sweden and Beyond
- Nadeen Khoury, Research Assistant, Malmö University

“Here in Sweden it’s cold. People are cold”: An intersectional approach to understanding the experiences of friendship among young migrants and non-migrants in Sweden
- Jacob Lind, Nadeen Khoury and Christina Hansen, Project researchers, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Mapping and explaining Swedish migration policy 1954-2020: Policy developments and parliamentary debates about migration policies. Preliminary empirical findings
- Henrik Emilsson, Associate senior lecturer, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Global Political Studies, Malmö University

Spring 2022

University 20% seminar: Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery (The case of Kosovo)
- Valon Junuzi, Doctoral student, Malmö University

Start-up seminar: The Struggle for (Re)Producing Food and Life: Organizing Informalized Migrant Labor in the Neoliberal Era
- Karen Ravn Vestergaard, Doctoral student, Malmö University

Defining Swedishness: when Swedes without a migration background are a local minority
- Marina Lazëri, Doctoral student, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

MIM Master Award - 2020: Emma Gade-Nielsen; 2021: Thomas Alexander

75% PhD seminar: (De)Securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EUropean External(ized) Border Management and Frontex’s ‘Border Knowledge’
- Eline Waerp, Doctoral student, Malmö University

Presentation of the RJ-funded project Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
- Maja Povrzanovic Frykman, Professor, Malmö University 

A place based approach to integration: way out or dead end?
- Bridget Anderson, Malmö City Guest Professor in Migration Studies at MIM

Temporalizing infrastructures: How time and temporalities shape the encounters between asylum seekers and multiple infrastructuring
- Paolo Boccagni, Professor, University of Trento

Why the Long Term Matters: Global Historical Approaches to Migration
- Leo Lucassen, Professor, Leiden University

Can you live in two countries simultaneously? What theoretical approaches on transnationalism and mobilities can tell us
- Marta Bivand Erdal, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

Unpacking the migration–development nexus: theoretical perspectives, and empirical evidence from Albania
- Russell King, Professor, University of Sussex

Controlling Immigration:  A Comparative Perspective
- James Hollifield, Professor, Southern Methodist University

The work of the ‘national’ in ‘national welfare states’
- Bridget Anderson, Malmö City Guest Professor in Migration Studies at MIM

50% seminar: Waiting for family reunification
- Hilda Gustafsson, Doctoral student, Malmö University

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

We focus both on a general analysis of emigration and immigration from/to Sweden and other places, and on individual experiences of migration, and how these are represented in, for instance, politics, media and museums. Here, migration concerns people moving from conflict zones and applying for asylum in Sweden as well as other countries, but also highly educated people looking for better job opportunities in, for example, Shanghai and Sweden.

Migration politics are analysed at policy and discursive levels, and migration patterns, dynamics and outcomes are considered. The perspectives range from the global to the local and from the international to the transnational, and we employ a variety of methodological approaches.

• The future of resettlement: Vulnerability revisited
  
  Transnational families in Europe – Care, inequalities and wellbeing
• “Under the hood” of European asylum bureaucracy - frontline workers and the development of norms and values inside EASO and IOM
• Waiting for family reunification
• Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery: The case of Kosovo
• Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective - HumMingBird
• Resilience in Urban Sudan (RUS): Resilience, social cohesion and climate change in urban areas of Greater Khartoum

Immigration creates both opportunities and challenges for the receiving country, and many of our research projects study the policies for and processes of inclusion, particularly those related to the first years after receiving residence. Under this theme, projects and studies deal with, for example, establishing “integration” indicators in a European context, which policies and practices are encountered by asylum seekers and refugees in local contexts. Research within this theme also studies which labour market integration and housing patterns are visible, including work-life balance for various immigrant and refugee groups by educational level as well country of origin.

• The Housing-Integration-Nexus: shaping exchange and innovation for migrants’ access to housing and social inclusion - HOUSE-IN
• ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
• Housing for immigrants and community integration in Europe and beyond: Strategies, policies, dwellings, and governance - MERGING
• MIMY - Migrant Youth Integration & Empowerment

• Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective (Whole-COMM)a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)

This research strand focuses on the representations of migration. How are issues of, for instance, ethnic diversity represented at universities, on stage in theatres, or at museums? How are national identities reproduced in the age of migration? These questions invite studies that move the research interest from “them” to “us”. What kind of stereotypes of and attitudes towards immigrants and different ethnic groups are found in societies both in and beyond the West? How do they affect majority-minority relations? How are people’s negative attitudes to increased levels of diversity translated to the realm of party politics and represented in the different media venues? More generally, how do the Scandinavian welfare states with historically homogenous populations, tackle the challenges of ethnic diversity? And what are the discursive changes and policy measures suggested and implemented in host-societies?

Other related research endeavours empirically and theoretically investigate notions of e.g. freedom of speech, hate speech activities, and tolerance and racism in everyday settings.

• CHILD-UP
• Cities of diversity? How segregation, social mix and diversity is framed, reframed and negotiated in policy and in everyday life in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Malmö, Sweden
• Exploration of hiring discrimination and possibilities for intervention through eye-tracking
• TiMS: The role of tourism in multicultural societies - adding to stereotypes or contributing to diversity?
• 'You're not Swedish Swedish': Inclusion and belongingness within Sweden
• Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)
• Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
• MIMY - Migrant Youth Integration & Empowerment
• (De)securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EU Border Management and the Production of Borders
• Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery: The case of Kosovo

Almost all areas of integration are represented in our research, such as political integration, labour market integration and social integration from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. We study policy development and the effects of these policies as well as patterns of integration for the migrant communities. Several of our researchers have a special interest in the idea, institution and role of citizenship and its relation to integration. Our research focuses among other things on the motives of naturalisation policies, such as greater transparency, compulsory (cultural) assimilation, legal exclusion of foreigners, and political participation, as well as liberal democratic legitimacy. Another area of citizenship research is the formation and education of citizens in diverse societies in school. Our expertise in this field ranges from political and educational philosophy to curriculum and classroom studies and from politics and policy to ethnographic “realities on the ground”.

• PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
• AI and the everyday political economy of global health
• Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
• MIMY - Migrant Youth Integration & Empowerment

'You're not Swedish Swedish': Inclusion and belongingness within Sweden

We are very happy to announce that we recently received confirmation from the City of Malmö that our guest professorship will be financed for another ten years. Malmö University and MIM have, since 2000, hosted 32 prominent researchers as part of the guest professorship and it has generated a constant and dynamic exchange of knowledge, enhancing MIM’s academic strength while also reinforcing our international network. We are therefore very glad that the City of Malmö wishes to continue collaborating with MIM and that we can look forward to another ten years of academic and social exchange with leading scholars from the migration field. Read more about the guest professorship and previous guest professors below.

• Article in Swedish

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.

Bridget Anderson (spring 2022)

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 

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, 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