Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare

30 September
Reclaiming one’s time: Attempts of temporal synchronizations among refugee professionals
in Oslo and Malmö
Katarina Mozetič, Doctoral reseach fellow, Oslo University

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21 October
Panel debate: Teaching and Migration Studies: Experiences of Multidisciplinarity
Panel participants: TBA

28 October
Immigrants’ family patterns and household economic assimilation: A comparative study of the U.S. and Sweden
Debora Pricila Birgier, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Gothenburg

4 November
Selection into citizenship
Rainer Bauböck, Professor, European University Institute, Florence, and Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

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11 November
Title TBA
Erica Righard, Associate Professor, Malmö University,
Anne Harju, Associate Professor, Malmö University,
Petra Svensson Källberg, Senior lecturer, Malmö University

18 November 17.00-19.00 NB!
Citizenship as equality
Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology, University of California

25 November
Understandings of young migrants’ integration processes
– a study based on stakeholder interviews within the MIMY project
Christina Hansen, Researcher, Malmö University
Mona Hemmaty, Associate senior lecturer, Malmö University
Nadeen Khoury, Research assistant, Malmö University
Jacob Lind, Project researcher, Malmö University

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2 December
AMIS-MIM Master conference

2 December kl 17.00-19.00 NB!
Citizenship as privilege
Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law, Political Science, University of Toronto

16 December
TBA

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.

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.

MILSA

NIEM: The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism

GLIMER - Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe’s Refugees


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

Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)

Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from
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

EUscepticOBS: analysing Euroscepticism, informing citizens and encouraging debates (Observe)

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

NoVaMigra – Norms and Values in the European Migration and Refugee Crisis

Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)

Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)

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

SEGMIX – Governance and lived experiences of urban diversity in SEGregated and MIXed neighbourhoods

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 recieved 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.

• ARTIKEL PÅ SVENSKA

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)  

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, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, the Aga Khan University