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International Migration and Ethnic Relations
and Ethnic Relations
The research field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) is multidisciplinary and incorporates approaches from both the social sciences and humanities. It has a focus on the processes of mobility, inclusion and exclusion and its varying expressions in politics, policies, places, institutions, and everyday lived experiences.
The research environment has an interdisciplinary approach and reflects expertise in:
- Economic history
- Political science
- Social work
- History
- Sociology
- Ethnology
- Social anthropology
- Human geography
- Religious studies
- Cultural studies
The environment largely overlaps with the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), and is a natural meeting point for researchers and others who are jointly committed to investigating migration-related issues, and to working in an interdisciplinary setting.
The plurality of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches of international migration and ethnic relations stimulates new and original research ideas and projects. It also offers an inclusive and innovative academic environment for international students and teachers.
Our research can be broadly divided into 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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Staff
Caroline Adolfsson - Doctoral student
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Staff
Svitlana Babenko - Project researcher
svitlana.babenko@mau.se -
Staff
Christofer Berglund - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Staff
Pieter Bevelander - Professor
pieter.bevelander@mau.se -
Staff
Linda Clavier - Senior lecturer
linda.lill@mau.se -
Staff
Erin Cory - Senior lecturer
erin.cory@mau.se -
IDStaff
Inge Dahlstedt - Head of unit/Senior lecturer
inge.dahlstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Ekstedt - Doctoral student
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
HEStaff
Henrik Emilsson - Researcher
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
Staff
Christian Fernandez - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christian.fernandez@mau.se -
Staff
Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Hellström - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Mikaela Herbert - Project researcher
mikaela.herbert@mau.se -
Staff
Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor/Pro dean
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
Staff
Nahikari Irastorza - Associate Professor
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
Staff
Tina Gudrun Jensen - Researcher
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Staff
Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy - Project researcher
ingrid.j.ramsoey@mau.se -
CJStaff
Christina Johansson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christina.johansson@mau.se -
Staff
Valon Junuzi - Doctoral student
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
Staff
Jacob Lind - Postdoc
jacob.lind@mau.se -
Staff
Vanja Lozic - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
vanja.lozic@mau.se -
Staff
Måns Lundstedt - Research assistant
mans.lundstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Katarina Mozetic - Project researcher
katarina.mozetic@mau.se -
Staff
Sayaka Osanami Törngren - Associate Professor/Researcher
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Staff
Thomas Persson - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
thomas.persson@mau.se -
Staff
Bo Petersson - Professor
bo.petersson@mau.se -
Staff
Margareta Popoola - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
margareta.popoola@mau.se -
Staff
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman - Professor
maja.frykman@mau.se -
Staff
Haodong Qi - Project researcher
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Staff
Erica Righard - Associate Professor /Assistant head of dep.
erica.righard@mau.se -
Staff
Michael Strange - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
michael.strange@mau.se -
Staff
Brigitte Suter - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
Staff
Rebecka Söderberg - Doctoral student
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
Staff
Malin Thor Tureby - Professor
malin.thor@mau.se -
Staff
Karen Ravn Vestergaard - Doctoral student
karen.vestergaard@mau.se -
Staff
Josepha Wessels - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
BWStaff
Berit Wigerfelt - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
berit.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson - Associate Professor
anders.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Eline Wærp - Doctoral student
eline.waerp@mau.se -
CZStaff
Charlotta Zettervall - Senior lecturer
charlotta.zettervall@mau.se
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2024 | Chapter in book
Translocal Lifelines through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing with Distance and Connection
Maja Povrzanovic Frykman
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2023 | Chapter in book
The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants
Pieter Bevelander
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2023 | Report
Ökar röstande aptiten på medborgarskap?
Pieter Bevelander, Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutser
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2023 | Report
Data Inventory on Integration Policies, Outcomes, Public Perceptions and Social Cohesion
Sinem Yilmaz, Giacomo Solano, Nahikari Irastorza
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2023 | Other
Understanding the gap between refugee integration policies and experiences of integration: Results from two EU-funded projects, FOCUS and NIEM
Nahikari Irastorza, Sayaka Osanami Törngren
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2023 | Article in journal
From state-controlled to free migration: The income effects of the 2008 Swedish labour-migration reform
Annika Elwert, Henrik Emilsson, Nahikari Irastorza
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2023 | Article in journal
Written on the Body: Tattoo Art as Bridgework in the Post-migration Context
Erin E Cory
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2023 | Article in journal
Migrant-focused inequity, distrust and an erosion of care within Sweden’s healthcare and media discourses during COVID-19
Michael Strange, Tina Askanius
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2023 | Chapter in book
Shifting notions of vulnerability and learning in Swedish prevention policy
Randi Gressgård, Vanja Lozic
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2023 | Report
Resettlement in the ‘new’ Sweden: Potential consequences of the 2022 introduction of integration criteria in the quota refugee programme
Brigitte Suter, Johan Ekstedt
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Research project
Future Society and Democracy in Europe
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Research project
A New Cold War? Africa’s place in the emerging global order
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Research project
Artificial Intelligence as an issue for Global Political Economy – actors, structures, constraints, and possibilities
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
Climate-Induced Migration in Africa and Beyond: Big Data and Predictive Analytics (CLIMB)
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project
European Solidarity, Institutional Changes in Migration Policy, and Adaptation Strategies: De-Othering and Social Integration of Refugees i...
svitlana.babenko@mau.se -
Research project
Growing up in illegality: Young adults’ life histories about the impact of a childhood lived under a long-lasting threat of deportation...
jacob.lind@mau.se -
Research project
Accounting practices in the everyday life of a refugee
stig.westerdahl@mau.se -
Research project
The Uruguayan Exile in Sweden. Tracing the Present Past in Three Generations
pal.brunnstrom@mau.se -
Research project
Organising with or against Formations of Migrant Labour? Challenges and New Directions for Labour Movements in Denmark and Beyond
karen.vestergaard@mau.se -
Research project
Academia and cultural production as ‘postmigrant’ fields in Sweden
maja.frykman@mau.se -
Research project
Transnational families in Europe – Care, inequalities and wellbeing
brigitte.suter@mau.se -
Research project
The Housing-Integration-Nexus: shaping exchange and innovation for migrants’ access to housing and social inclusion - HOUSE-IN
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Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery: The case of Kosovo
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
Research project
Exploration of hiring discrimination and possibilities for intervention through eye-tracking
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project
Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Research project
Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees from a whole of community perspective (Whole-COMM)
nahikari.irastorza@mau.se -
Research project
Housing for immigrants and community integration in Europe and beyond: Strategies, policies, dwellings, and governance - MERGING
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project
ReROOT: Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers
tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se -
Research project
Illiberal deliberation - communist regime travel controls as state capacity in everyday world politics
astrid.hedin@mau.se -
Research project
Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective - HumMingBird
haodong.qi@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Waiting for family reunification
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Research project
Cities of diversity? (Re)constructions of narratives of urban diverse neighbourhoods
rebecka.soderberg@mau.se -
Research project
PHED - Precision Health and Everyday Democracy
michael.strange@mau.se -
Research project
TiMS: The role of tourism in multicultural societies - adding to stereotypes or contributing to diversity?
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
”Under the hood” of the European Union Agency for Asylum: A study of bureaucratic structures, institutional arrangements and frontline...
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
'You're not Swedish Swedish': Inclusion and belongingness within Sweden
caroline.adolfsson@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
(De)securitization, Crisis and Humanitarianism? Mapping the Field of EU Border Management and the Production of Borders
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Research project
Jewish and woman. Intersectional and historical perspectives on Jewish women's lives in Sweden during the twentieth and twenty-first...
malin.thor@mau.se
Doctoral studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations
Malmö University offers doctoral studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations.
The subject IMER is a broad research topic with a multi and interdisciplinary basis. It's about the consequences of migration for both the society of origin and destination at different levels, on the structural, institutional, group and individual level, and how ethnic relations and ethnic diversity become important characteristics for society due to, or as a result of, migration.
Central adjoining areas of research relate to citizenship, belonging, diaspora and identity, as well as unwanted processes such as marginalisation, exclusion and alienation.
Contact for doctoral studies: Maja Povrzanovic Frykman
General study plan for International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER)