
Expert pool
The purpose of the expert pool is to enable better communication and dissemination of information between researchers and external actors (e.g. journalists, local government authorities, and civil society). Below you find contact information for a selection of researchers at the University of Gothenburg who are researching issues related to migration and integration.
Swedish Migration Policy
Andrea Spehar
andrea.spehar@pol.gu.se telephone: 031–786 1192
Department of Political Science
Keywords: Political parties and migration, migration policy development in Sweden
Karin Zelano
karin.zelano@gu.se
Department of Political Science
Keywords: EU mobility, Vulnerable EU citizens, Multilevel governance
Senior lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies anja.franck@globalstudies.gu.se telephone: 031–786 1414 , 0709101150
Jesper Strömbäck
jesper.stromback@jmg.gu.se
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication
Keywords: Media coverage of immigration, Public attitudes on immigration, Media effects on public attitudes on immigration, The impact of immigration on Sweden
Otto Swedrup
otto.swedrup@law.gu.se
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: Public law, Welfare, Civil society, Social rights, EU-migration
EU migration policy
Andrea Spehar
andrea.spehar@pol.gu.se telephone: 031–786 1192
Department of Political Science
Keywords: Political parties and migration, migration policy development in Sweden
Karin Zelano
karin.zelano@gu.se
Department of Political Science
Keywords: EU mobility, Vulnerable EU citizens, Multilevel governance
Senior lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies anja.franck@globalstudies.gu.se telephone: 031–786 1414 , 0709101150
Global Migration
Andrea Castro
andrea.castro@sprak.gu.se
Department of Languages and Literatures
Keywords: Latin American literature, Nation building, Migration, Exile, Subjectivity
Sari Kouvo
sari.kouvo@law.gu.se
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: International law, EU and foreign policy, Afghanistan
Fredrik Olsson
fredrik.olsson@sprak.gu.se
Department of Languages and Literatures
Keywords: Borders, Irregular migration, Transnational families, Decoloniality, Contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature
Camilla Orjuela
camilla.orjuela@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Peace-building, Migrants' involvement in homeland politics, Transitional justice, Post-war societies, Transnationalism
Helena Lindholm
helena.lindholm@gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Diaspora, Identity, Refugees, Middle-East, Access to healthcare
Karsten Paerregaard
karsten.paerregaard@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Diaspora, Caretaking, Religion, Remittances, Entrepreneurship, Peru
Lisa Åkesson
lisa.akesson@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: North-South migration, Return, Remittances, Transnationalism, Global families, Portuguese speaking Africa
Susanne Åsman
susanne.asman@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Critical studies of sex trafficking and anti-trafficking interventions, Migration for sex work and everyday life at return migration, The migration industry, brokerage and gendered labor migration
Health
Lena Andersson
lena.andersson@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Undocumented migrants' health
Elisabeth Lönnermark
elisabet.lonnermark@infect.gu.se
Institute of Biomedicine (Sahlgrenska academy)
Jesper Löve
jesper.love@socmed.gu.se
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Sahlgrenska academy)
Keywords: Mental health, Health literacy, Barriers to care, Intervention
Integration
Gabriella Elgenius
gabriella.elgenius@gu.se
Department of Sociology and Work Science
Keywords: Diaspora mobilization and civil society; Labor-market integration and other forms of social integration; Nationalism and ethno-nationalism
Ezgi Irgil
ezgi.irgil@gu.se
Department of Political Science
Keywords: Local governance, Collaborative governance, Urban refugees
Jonas Landgren
jonas.landgren@ait.gu.se
Department of Applied Information Technology
Keywords: Digitalization, Migration, Digitalized migration, Organization of humanitarian response, Information technology as enabler and barrier in migration processes.
Helena Lindholm
helena.lindholm@gu.se
School of Global Studies
Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Inclusion and Newly Arrived
Edgar Platen
edgar.platen@sprak.gu.se
Department of Languages and Literatures
Keywords: Migration literature, Transculturality, Cultural racism, Basis of values ("Leitkultur")
Rodney Stevens
stevens@gvc.gu.se
Department of Earth Sciences
Keywords: Immigrant based case studies for integration and networking
Labor Market Integration
Andreas Diedrich
andreas.diedrich@gri.gu.se
Gothenburg Research Institute (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: Organisational studies, Labour market integration of refugees and other immigrants
Denis Frank
denis.frank@socav.gu.se
Department of Sociology and Work Science
Keywords: Labor market integration, Labor migration, historical sociology, Immigration policy, Recruitment
Vedran Omanovic
vedran.omanovic@handels.gu.se
Department of Business Administration (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: Diversity in organizations, Inequalities in organizations, Organizational changes, Restructuring / conversion
Maria Jose Zapata Campos
mj.zapata@handels.gu.se
Department of Business Administration (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: Public-private collaboration, Organizing sustainability
Asylum
Baharan Kazemi
baharan.kazemi@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Unaccompanied children and youth taken care of according to Swedish law (LVU)
Charlotte Melander
charlotte.melander@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Social support and care-giving within transnational families, Unaccompanied minors
Kristina Wejstål
kristina.wejstal@law.gu.se
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
Keywords: Asylum, Human Rights, International and European Migration Law
Education (general)
Girma Berhanu
girma.berhanu@ped.gu.se
Department of Education and Special Education
Keywords: Ethnicity, Special education, Inclusive education, Participation of marginalized groups at tertiary education, Integration, Disability studies
Emma Gyllerfelt
emma.gyllerfelt@hdk.gu.se
Academy of Design and Crafts
Keywords: Crafts, Newly arrived students, Mapping, Interaction, Multimodality
Tarja Häikiö Karlsson
tarja.haikio@hdk.gu.se
Academy of Design and Crafts
Keywords: Interculturality, including working methods, Participation, Mapping of newly arrived students knowledge
Anna Lyngfelt
anna.lyngfelt@gu.se
Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Keywords: Narratives, Multilingualism, Education, Literacy
Frida Siekkinen
frida.siekkinen@gu.se
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
Keywords: Swedish as a second language coded students, Swedish as a second language, Language and discourses, Multilingualism, Translanguaging
Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
sylvana.sofkova.hashemi@gu.se
Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
Keywords: Language use in social media, Mobile learning, Social semiotics, Cross-cultural learning design
Swedish as a Second Language
Carina Carlund
carina.carlund@svenska.gu.se
Department of Swedish
Director of Studies for Swedish as Secondary Language
Tommaso Milani
tommaso.milani@svenska.gu.se
Department of Swedish
Keywords: Multilingualism, Gender/sexuality, Language politics, Language ideology, Media debates
Anna Winlund
anna.winlund@gu.se
Department of Swedish
Keywords: Newly arrived students, Swedish as a second language, Literacy, Second language development
Identity
Michael Azar
michael.azar@lir.gu.se
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Keywords: Identity, Identification, Globalization, Historical perspectives, Libidinal economy, Middle East
Katharina Kehl
katharina.kehl@gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Migration, Gender, Sexuality, Homonationalism, Norms
Mikela Lundahl Hero
mikela.lundahl@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Migration, Temporality, Belonging, Imagined communities, Refugees
Tetz Rooke
tetz.rooke@sprak.gu.se
Department of Languages and Literatures
Keywords: Arabic migration literature; Arabic in Sweden; Environment and migration in the Middle East
Ove Sernhede
ove.sernhede@gu.se
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
Keywords: Multiculturalism, New Ethnicity, Segregation, Learning, Youth Culture
Ylva Svensson
ylva.svensson@psy.gu.se
Department of Psychology
Keywords: Social integration, Inclusion, Inter-ethnic relations, (Ethnic) identity
Eva Zetterman
eva.zetterman@gu.se
Department of Cultural Sciences
Keywords: Crossers / Passers of Borders (Mexico-USA) - Marginalization - Experience as Chicana/o - Critical Whiteness - Representations of Identity
Religion
Göran Larsson
goran.larsson@lir.gu.se
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Keywords: Religion, Migration, Islam
Daniel Enstedt
daniel.enstedt@lir.gu.se
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Keywords: Religion, Migration, Diaspora, Power, Religious behavioral science
Segregation
Björn Gustafsson
bjorn.gustafsson@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Immigration, Poverty, Income distribution
Nils Hammarén
nils.hammaren@gu.se
Department of education, communication and learning
Keywords: Youth culture, Gender, Multiculturalism, Segregation, Identity processes
Jonas Lindbäck
jonas.lindback@gu.se
Department of education, communication and learning
Keywords: Education, School segregation, Urban segregation, Territorial stigmatization, Othering.
Johannes Lunneblad
johannes.lunneblad@ped.gu.se
Department of education, communication and learning
Keywords: Refugees, Migration, Childhood, Segregation, Pre-school, School
Discrimination
Marie Demker
marie.demker@gu.se
Department of Political Science
Keywords: Racism, Religion, Nationalism and Xenophobia
Cecilia Ekström
cecilia.ekstrom@globalstudies.gu.se
School of Global Studies
Keywords: Stigmatization, Discrimination, Power, Violence, Identity
Adrian Groglopo
adrian.groglopo@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Racism, Intersectionality, Postcolonialism, Decolonialism theory, Colonial capitalism, Structural discrimination.
Lena Sawyer
lena.sawyer@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
Keywords: Diaspora, Postcolonialism, Racism, Institutional discrimination
Can´t you find the expert you are looking for?
Contact our research coordinator who will be happy to help you find someone who can answer your questions.
Alice Johansson
alice.johansson@gu.se