Refugees’ social histories and their encounters with education in Sweden

About the seminar

Refugees are often perceived as a homogeneous group and defined by their present conditions; the diversity of their social histories is thus overlooked. In this presentation, Nubin Ciziri challenges the mainstream perspective on integration by emphasising refugees as products of their social histories. She focuses on the extent to which the backgrounds of Kurdish refugees from Syria shape their encounters with education in Sweden, a key vehicle of state-led integration.

About Nubin Ciziri

Nubin Ciziri is a sociologist and researcher specialising in migration, sociology of education, integration, ethnicity, and Kurdish diaspora studies. She received her PhD from Uppsala University in 2024 with the dissertation "(Dis)Integrating Families: Refugees’ Social Histories and Their Encounters with Education in Sweden". She is currently affiliated with REMESO (Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society) at Linköping University.

About the organisers

The Collegium Gender Perspectives in Education focuses on questions related to critical perspectives on gender and education. The Collegium for the Sociology of Education provides a forum for scholarly discussion of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of education and teaching. Both collegia regularly organise seminars that are open to the public.