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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
caroline.adolfsson@mau.se -
Staff
Christofer Berglund - 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 - Senior lecturer
christian.fernandez@mau.se -
Staff
Hilda Gustafsson - Doctoral student
hilda.gustafsson@mau.se -
Staff
Christina Hansen - Project researcher
christina.hansen@mau.se -
AHStaff
Anders Hellström - Senior lecturer
anders.hellstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Derek Stanford Hutcheson - Professor
derek.hutcheson@mau.se -
Staff
Nahikari Irastorza - Project researcher
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 - Senior lecturer
christina.johansson@mau.se -
Staff
Valon Junuzi - Doctoral student
valon.junuzi@mau.se -
LKStaff
Lisa Källström - Senior lecturer
lisa.kallstrom@mau.se -
Staff
Jacob Lind - Project researcher
jacob.lind@mau.se -
Staff
Vanja Lozic - Senior lecturer
vanja.lozic@mau.se -
Staff
Sayaka Osanami Törngren - Associate Professor
sayaka.torngren@mau.se -
Staff
Bo Petersson - Professor
bo.petersson@mau.se -
MPStaff
Margareta Popoola - 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
erica.righard@mau.se -
MSStaff
Michael Strange - Senior lecturer
michael.strange@mau.se -
Staff
Brigitte Suter - Associate Professor
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 - Senior lecturer
josepha.wessels@mau.se -
BWStaff
Berit Wigerfelt - Associate Professor
berit.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Anders Wigerfelt-Svensson - Associate Professor
anders.wigerfelt@mau.se -
Staff
Eline Wærp - Doctoral student
eline.waerp@mau.se
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2022 | Report
Home in hardship: Exploring how United Nations professionals negotiate constructions of home in and between hardship settings.
Alexander Thomas
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2022 | Report
Deeming Damascus ’Safe’: The Implications of the Paradigm Shift in Danish Asylum Policy and the Increased Focus on Return
Emma Gade Nielsen
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2022 | Article in journal
Collectivity in waiting: transnational experiences in Swedish family reunification [Kollektivitet i väntan: transnationella erfarenheter inom svensk familjeåterförening]
Hilda Gustafsson
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2022 | Report
Measuring refugee integration policies in Sweden: Results from the National Integration Evaluation Mechanism 2021
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Henrik Emilsson, Nadeen Khoury, Tawanda Maviga, Nahikari Irastorza, Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Pieter Bevelander
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2022 | Chapter in book
How Immigrants Fare in European Labor Markets
Pieter Bevelander
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2022 | Chapter in book
Matched-Guise Reloaded: Revising a Classic Experiment for Complex Multi-Lingual Settings
Timothy Blauvelt, Christofer Berglund, Jesse Driscoll
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2022 | Chapter in book
Vilka minnen vill vi hålla kvar vid
Anders Hellström
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2022 | Article in journal
Being Young in the Diaspora: Fragmentation of the Palestinian Youth Mobilisation from the Middle East to Europe
Fanny Christou
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2022 | Article in journal
Waiting for housing: municipal practices of mobility control
Sofi Jansson Keshavarz, Vanna Nordling
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2022 | Article in journal
What does it mean to "go beyond race"?
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Karen L. Suyemoto
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Research project
AI and the everyday political-economy of global health
michael.strange@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
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
Newly arrived teachers' experiences after the Fast Track course
catarina.economou@mau.se -
Research project
EUscepticOBS: analysing Euroscepticism, informing citizens and encouraging debates (Observe)
anders.hellstrom@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? How segregation, social mix and diversity is framed, reframed and negotiated in policy and in everyday life in...
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
Forced displacement and refugee-host community solidarity (FOCUS)
nahikari.irastorza@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
eline.waerp@mau.se -
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 -
Research project
NIEM: The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism
sayaka.torngren@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