On 26–27 November, the Swedish Research Council and the Centre on Global Migration at the University of Gothenburg will host a workshop to share experiences from completed projects carried out within the Swedish Research Council’s National Research Programme on Migration and Integration (NFP-MI).
The purpose of the workshop is to share experiences from completed projects that have been part of the Swedish Research Council’s National Research Programme on Migration and Integration (NFP-MI) and explore connections between the projects. In addition to presentations by project participants, the programme will feature two keynote speakers offering different perspectives on how temporary residence status and other legal conditions shape migrants’ opportunities for inclusion and integration in Europe.
Thursday, 26 November
Keynote talks: 13:15–15:00
Coffee break: 15:00–15:30
Project presentations: 15:30–17:30
Friday, 27 November
Project presentations: 08:30–12:00
Across Europe, temporary residence statuses have become an increasingly important feature of migration and asylum governance. In this public seminar, two speakers examine this “temporary turn” from different perspectives. Drawing on the case of Ukrainian displacement and on developments in European migration law, they explore how temporariness shapes migrants’ legal status, opportunities for inclusion, and prospects for building a future in Europe.
Oksana Shmulyar Gréen
Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
Abstract: Amid the arrival of millions of Ukrainians across the European Union, temporariness has become firmly established as a legal, institutional, and administrative condition shaping the lives of displaced populations and other newly arrived migrants. Following the activation of the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) in 2022, scholarly and public debates have often reinforced a narrative of Ukrainians as a comparatively privileged group of migrants. To develop a more nuanced understanding of how temporality has from structured the lives of displaced Ukrainians, I draw on the concept of temporal dissonance, which sheds light on the complex layers of uncertainty and often conflicting tempos embedded within three interrelated forms of temporality: legal, institutional and lived temporalities. Taken together, these intersecting temporalities reveal that the apparent legal privilege associated with temporary protection can coexist with profound temporal uncertainty, limiting displaced Ukrainians’ ability to establish continuity, exercise agency, and construct viable futures.
Jessica Schultz
Senior Researcher, Law, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Abstract: tba