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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 -
IDStaff
Inge Dahlstedt - Senior lecturer
inge.dahlstedt@mau.se -
Staff
Johan Ekstedt - Doctoral student
johan.ekstedt@mau.se -
HEStaff
Henrik Emilsson - Researcher
henrik.emilsson@mau.se -
CFStaff
Christian Fernandez - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
christian.fernandez@mau.se -
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Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Staff
Christina Hansen - Senior lecturer
christina.hansen@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Hellström - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor
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/Head of unit/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
Jason Tucker - Associate senior lecturer
jason.tucker@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 - Part-time teacher
eline.waerp@mau.se -
CZStaff
Charlotta Zettervall - Senior lecturer
charlotta.zettervall@mau.se
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2023 | Chapter in book
Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Nahikari Irastorza, Aliaksei Kazlou
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2023 | Article in journal
Tourism memories – a collaborative reflection on inclusion and exclusion
Eva Maria Jernsand, Helena Kraff, Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Caroline Adolfsson, Emma Björner, Lillian Omondi, Thomas Pederson, Sofia Ulver
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2023 | Article in journal
What does Intermarriage Say about Immigrant Integration in Japan?: The Maintenance of a National and Gender Hierarchy through Marriage Norms
Kikuko Nagayoshi, Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Hirohisa Takenoshita
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2023 | Article in journal
At åbne op og lukke ned: Rum, mennesker og relationer i en blandet bydel i Malmø, Sverige
Tina Gudrun Jensen, Erica Righard
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2023 | Report
Unaccompanied foreign minors in the Spanish media: A frame analysis of press editorials
Tábata Martín Olea
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2023 | Report
South-south migration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of media’s construction of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil
Bruna Carvalho Badaró de Melo
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2023 | Article in journal
The Populist Divide in Far-Right Political Discourse in Sweden: Anti-Immigration Claims in the Swedish Socially Conservative Online Newspaper Samtiden from 2016 to 2022
Anders Hellström
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2023 | Other
Att förstå klyftan mellan politiken för flyktingintegration och erfarenheterna av integration: Resultat från två EU-finansierade projekt, FOCUS och NIEM
Nahikari Irastorza, Sayaka Osanami Törngren
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2023 | Chapter in book
Att förstå rasformationer i dagens Sverige: Rasifiering och avrasifiering av mångetniska och mångrasliga svenskar
Sayaka Osanami Törngren
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2023 | Article in journal
Challenges to Relational Commitments of Preschool Staff in Supporting Children in Contexts with a High Proportion of Early Second Language Learners in Sweden
Johannes Finnman, Maja Söderbäck, Madeleine Sjöman, Jonas Welander, Lena Almqvist
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Research project
Climate-Induced Migration in Africa and Beyond: Big Data and Predictive Analytics (CLIMB)
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Research project
European Solidarity, Institutional Changes in Migration Policy, and Adaptation Strategies: De-Othering and Social Integration of Refugees i...
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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
Conviviality and Contamination
oscar.hemer@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
AI and the everyday political-economy of global health
jason.tucker@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
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
Research project | DOCTORAL PROJECT
Critical examination of repatriation programmes in the EU periphery: The case of Kosovo
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
Research project
Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance
christofer.berglund@mau.se -
Research project
Exploration of hiring discrimination and possibilities for intervention through eye-tracking
sayaka.torngren@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
MIMY - Migrant Youth Integration & Empowerment
jacob.lind@mau.se -
Research project
Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries
malin.thor@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 European asylum bureaucracy - frontline workers and the development of norms and values inside EASO and IOM
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
PhD studies
Malmö University offers PhD studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations.
Read about PhD studies in International migration and Ethnic Relations