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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

Anja Karlsson Franck

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

Anja Karlsson Franck

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