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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.

Asylum

Charlotte Melander
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
e-mail: charlotte.melander@socwork.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 63 84
Keywords: Social support and care-giving within transnational families, Unaccompanied minors

Kristina Wejstål
Doctoral Student
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
e-mail: kristina.wejstal@law.gu.se
Keywords: Asylum, Human Rights, International and European Migration Law

Discrimination

Adrian Groglopo
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
e-mail: adrian.groglopo@socwork.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 18 85
Keywords: Racism, Intersectionality, Postcolonialism, Decolonization theory, Colonial capitalism, Structural discrimination

Lena Sawyer
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work
e-mail: lena.sawyer@socwork.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 65 80
Keywords: Diaspora, Postcolonialism, Racism, Institutional discrimination

Marie Demker
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
e-mail: marie.demker@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 12 42
Keywords: Racism, Religion, Nationalism and Xenophobia

Education (general)

Anna Lyngfelt
Professor of Subject Didactics and Assistant Head of Department
Department of Pedagogical, Curricular and Professional Studies
e-mail: anna.lyngfelt@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 22 48; +46 727-11 00 82
Keywords: Narratives, Multilingualism, Education, Literacy

Emma Gyllerfelt
Lecturer
HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design
e-mail: emma.gyllerfelt@hdk.gu.se
Keywords: Crafts, Newly arrived students, Mapping, Interaction, Multimodality

Girma Berhanu
Professor
Department of Education and Special Education
e-mail: girma.berhanu@ped.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 23 25
Keywords: Ethnicity, Special education, Inclusive education, Participation of marginalized groups at tertiary education, Integration, Disability studies

Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
Associate Professor of Educational Science
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
e-mail: sylvana.sofkova.hashemi@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 31 28; +46 766-18 31 28
Keywords: Language use in social media, Mobile learning, Social semiotics, Cross-cultural learning design

Tarja Häikiö Karlsson
Professor / Associate professor of Visual and Material Culture
HDK-Valand - Academy of Art and Design
e-mail: tarja.haikio@hdk.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 48 79; +46 707-35 95 47
Keywords: Interculturality, including working methods, Participation, Mapping of newly arrived students’ knowledge

EU migration policy

Anja Karlsson Franck
Associate Professor of Peace and Development Studies
School of Global Studies
e-mail: anja.franck@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 14 14; +46 709-10 11 50

Andrea Spehar
Associate Professor of Political Science and director of Centre on Global Migration (CGM)
Department of Political Science and School of Global Studies
e-mail: andrea.spehar@pol.gu.se
telephone: 031–786 1192
Keywords:
Political parties and migration, migration policy development in Sweden

Global Migration

Andrea Castro
Professor of Spanish and Assistant Dean for Research
Department of Languages and Literatures and Faculty of Humanities
e-mail: andrea.castro@sprak.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 17 99; +46 766-18 17 99
Keywords: Latin American literature, Nation building, Migration, Exile, Subjectivity

Camilla Orjuela
Professor
School of Global Studies
e-mail: camilla.orjuela@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 58 73
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Migrants' involvement in homeland politics, Transitional justice, Post-war societies, Transnationalism

Helena Lindholm
Professor
School of Global Studies
e-mail: helena.lindholm@gu.se
telephone: 0703-93 27 96
Keywords: Diaspora, Identity, Refugees, Middle-East, Access to healthcare

Karsten Paerregaard
Emeritus Professor and Researcher
School of Global Studies
e-mail:
karsten.paerregaard@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +45 61278108
Keywords: Diaspora, Caretaking, Religion, Remittances, Entrepreneurship, Peru

Lisa Åkesson
Professor of Social Anthropology
School of Global Studies
e-mail: lisa.akesson@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 53 36
Keywords: North-South migration, Return, Remittances, Transnationalism, Global families, Portuguese speaking Africa

Sari Kouvo
Associate Professor of International Law
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
e-mail:
sari.kouvo@law.gu.se
telephone: 031-786 34 81; 0766-18 34 81
Keywords: International law, EU and foreign policy, Afghanistan

Health

Elisabeth Lönnermark
Associate Professor and Chief Physician
Department of Infectious Diseases
e-mail: elisabet.lonnermark@infect.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 32 02; +46 766-18 32 02

Jesper Löve
Associate Professor of Public Health Science
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
e-mail: jesper.love@socmed.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 68 68; +46 766-18 68 68
Keywords: Mental health, Health literacy, Barriers to care, Intervention

Lena Andersson
Associate Professor in Social Work
lena.andersson@socwork.gu.se
Department of Social Work
e-mail: lena.andersson@socwork.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 57 75
Keywords: Undocumented migrants' health

Identity

Eva Zetterman
Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies
Department of Cultural Sciences
e-mail: eva.zetterman@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 67 86
Keywords: Crossers / Passers of Borders (Mexico-USA) - Marginalization - Experience as Chicana/o - Critical Whiteness - Representations of Identity

Michael Azar
Professor in the History of Ideas
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
e-mail: michael.azar@lir.gu.se
telephone: 031-786 45 27
Keywords: Identity, Identification, Globalization, Historical perspectives, Libidinal economy, Middle East

Mikela Lundahl Hero
Associate Professor
School of Global Studies
e-mail: mikela.lundahl@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 26 97; +46 709-36 01 19
Keywords: Migration, Temporality, Belonging, Imagined communities, Refugees

Ove Sernhede
Senior Researcher
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
e-mail: ove.sernhede@gu.se
telephone: +46 766-18 10 19
Keywords: Multiculturalism, New Ethnicity, Segregation, Learning, Youth Culture

Tetz Rooke
Professor
Department of Languages and Literatures
e-mail: tetz.rooke@sprak.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 40 67
Keywords: Arabic migration literature; Arabic in Sweden; Environment and migration in the Middle East

Integration

Edgar Platen
Professor
Department of Languages and Literatures
e-mail: edgar.platen@sprak.gu.se
telephone: 031-786 45 96
Keywords: Migration literature, Transculturality, Cultural racism, Basis of values ("Leitkultur")

Gabriella Elgenius
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Work Science
e-mail: gabriella.elgenius@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 37 69
Keywords: Diaspora mobilization and civil society; Labour-market integration and other forms of social integration; Nationalism and ethno-nationalism

Helena Lindholm
Professor of Peace and Development research
School of Global Studies
e-mail: helena.lindholm@gu.se
telephone: 0703-93 27 96
Keywords: Diaspora, Identity, Refugees, Middle-East, Access to healthcare

Jonas Landgren
Associate Professor of Informatics / Information Systems
Department of Applied Information Technology
e-mail: jonas.landgren@ait.gu.se
Keywords: Digitalization, Migration, Digitalized migration, Organization of humanitarian response, Information technology as enabler and barrier in migration processes

Simon Bauer
Doctoral Student
Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology
e-mail: simon.bauer@gu.se
Keywords: Civic orientation for newcomers, Civic Integration, Multilingualism, Critical discourse analysis, Discourse ethnography, Nationalism

Labour Market Integration

Andreas Diedrich
Associate Professor
Department of Business Administration
e-mail: andreas.diedrich@gri.gu.se
telephone: 031-786 54 04; 0732-30 88 96
Keywords: Organisational studies, Labour market integration of refugees and other immigrants

Denis Frank
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Work Science
e-mail: denis.frank@socav.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 58 14
Keywords: Labour market integration, Labour migration, historical sociology, Immigration policy, Recruitment

Maria Jose Zapata Campos
Associate Professor
Department of Business Administration (School of Business, Economics and Law)
e-mail:
mj.zapata@handels.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 15 55; +46 766-18 15 55
Keywords: Public-private collaboration, Organizing sustainability

Vedran Omanovic
Associate Professor
Department of Business Administration (School of Business, Economics and Law)
e-mail: vedran.omanovic@handels.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 54 17
Keywords: Diversity in organizations, Inequalities in organizations, Organizational changes, Restructuring / conversion

Migration and Climate

Anders Burman
Associate Professor in Human Ecology and Assistant Head of Department
School of Global Studies
e-mail: anders.burman@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 59 19; +46 766-18 59 19
Keywords: "Climate change and migration"; "The link between climate justice, social justice and migration"; "Migration and political ecology"

Deliang Chen
Professor,
August Röhss Chair
Department of Earth Sciences
e-mail: deliang@gvc.gu.se
telephone: +46 31 786 4813
Keywords: Climate change, the third pole, water resource

Religion

Daniel Enstedt
Associate Professor and Director of Studies in Religious Studies and Theology
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
e-mail: daniel.enstedt@lir.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 20 91
Keywords: Religion, Migration, Diaspora, Power, Religious behavioural science

Göran Larsson
Professor in Religious Studies
Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
e-mail: goran.larsson@lir.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 53 15
Keywords: Religion, Migration, Islam

Segregation

Björn Gustafsson
Professor Emeritus
Department of Social Work
e-mail: bjorn.gustafsson@socwork.gu.se
Keywords: Immigration, Poverty, Income distribution

Johannes Lunneblad
Professor
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
e-mail: johannes.lunneblad@ped.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 20 58
Keywords: Refugees, Migration, Childhood, Segregation, Pre-school, School

Jonas Lindbäck
Associate Professor
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
e-mail: jonas.lindback@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 20 43
Keywords: Education, School segregation, Urban segregation, Territorial stigmatization, Othering

Nils Hammarén
Associate Professor of Child and Youth Studies and Director of Studies
Department of Education, Communication and Learning
e-mail: nils.hammaren@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 20 94
Keywords: Youth culture, Gender, Multiculturalism, Segregation, Identity processes

Swedish as a Second Language

Anna Winlund
Lecturer in Swedish as a second language
Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology
e-mail: anna.winlund@gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 39 03
Keywords: Newly arrived students, Swedish as a second language, Literacy, Second language development

Swedish Migration Policy

Andrea Spehar
Associate Professor of Political Science and director of Centre on Global Migration (CGM)
Department of Political Science
e-mail: andrea.spehar@pol.gu.se
telephone: 031–786 1192
Keywords:
Political parties and migration, migration policy development in Sweden

Anja Karlsson Franck
Associate Professor in Peace and Development Studies
School of Global Studies
e-mail: anja.franck@globalstudies.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 14 14; +46 709-10 11 50

Jesper Strömbäck
Professor of Journalism and Political Communication
Department of Journalism, Media and Communication
e-mail: jesper.stromback@jmg.gu.se
telephone: +46 31-786 49 34
Keywords: Media coverage of immigration, Public attitudes on immigration, Media effects on public attitudes on immigration, The impact of immigration on Sweden

Otto Swedrup
Doctoral student
Department of Law (School of Business, Economics and Law)
e-mail:
otto.swedrup@law.gu.se
telephone: +46735325104
Keywords: Public law, Social minimum, Social rights, Civil society, Human rights

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Alice Johansson
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