Migration-and-Integration Publications at GU
One of our goals is to disseminate research results on the theme of migration and integration. You can find some of the latest publication from researchers from different departments and faculties at the University of Gothenburg below. The list is by no means complete, but gives some examples of current research at the university.
Boundaries of collaboration – the case of a temporary housing complex for refugees in Sweden
Writers: Sara Brorström, Andreas Diedrich
Public Management Review, 2020 Link to the article
Migration across developed countries: German immigrants in Sweden and the US
Writers: Y. Haberfeld, D. P. Birgier, Christer Lundh, Erik Elldér
International Migration, Journal article 2020 Read the full text on a web page
European migration to Africa and the coloniality of knowledge: the Portuguese in Maputo
Writer: Lisa Åkesson
Third World Quarterly, 2020 Link to the article
From Humanitarian Crisis Management to Prison Island: Implementing the European Asylum Regime at the Border Island of Lesvos 2015-2017
Writer: Alexandra Bousiou
Journal of Balkan and near Eastern Studies, 2020 Read the fulltext here
The International Court of Justice and Migration
Writer: Gregor Noll
Achilles Skordas, Research Handbook of the International Court of Justice, 2020 Link to the book chapter
Understanding the Crisis of Refugee Law: Legal Scholarship and the EU Asylum System
Writers: Rosemary Byrne, Gregor Noll, Jens Vedsted-Hansen
Leiden Journal of International Law, 2020
Migrant Employment Integration and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Writers: Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström, Dina Koutsikouri, Jonas Stier, Matilda Arvidsson
Proceedings of the 32nd annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) online conference, June 16 – 17, 2020. Link to the full text (pdf)
The Role of Trust and Reciprocity in Transnational Care Towards Children
Writers: Charlotte Melander, Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, Ingrid Höjer
Family Life in Transition Borders, Transnational Mobility, and Welfare Society in Nordic Countries, 2020 Link to the book chapter
Introducing the EC Hotspot Approach: A Framing Analysis of EU’s Most Authoritative Crisis Policy Response
Writers: Alexandra Bousiou, Evie Papada
International migration, 2020 Link to the article
Humanitarian Border Workers in Confrontation with the Swedish State's Border Making Practices: "The Death of the Most Generous Country on Earth"
Writer: Abby Peterson
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2020 Link to the article
Migration: Editorial Introduction
Writers: Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal, 2020 Read here!
Art & Migration
Writers: Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
Journal issue, PARSE Journal, 2020 Link to the journal
Support for the political community in a community that doesn’t support you: immigrant youths’ exposure to anti-immigrant attitudes
Writer: Maria Tyrberg
Journal of Youth Studies, 2020 Link to the article
Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark
Writers: Sophie Bergerbrant Frei, K M; Bergerbrant, S; Sjögren, K-G; Jörkov, M L; Lynnerup, N; Harvig, L; Allentoft, M; Sikora, M; Price, T D ; Frei, R; Kristiansen, K
PLoS ONE, 14 (8), 0219850 Link to the article
Integrationsfrämjande genom dialog. Praktiker och förändringsteorier i sex verksamheter
Writer: Thomas Jordan
Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet, Rapport 2019 Read the full text PDF
Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden.
Writers: Bucken-Knapp, Gregg; Omanović, Vedran; and Spehar, Andrea (2019)
Palgrave Pivot Link to the book
Talking about Integration: The Voices of Syrian Refugees Taking Part in Introduction Programs for Integration into Swedish Society.
Writers: Bucken-Knapp, G., Spehar, A., and Fakih, Z. (2019)
International Migration. 57(2) Link to the article
What is a legitimate mobility manager? Juxtaposing migration brokers with the EU
Writers: Lisa Åkesson, J. Alpes
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 Read the article here
Mobile Technology for Social Inclusion of Migrants in the Age of Globalization: A Case Study of Newly Arrived Healthcare Professionals in Sweden
Writers: Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 2019 Link to the article
(Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and Timescapes
Writers: Mona Lilja, Andreas Henriksson, Mikael Baaz
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2019 Link to the article
"Different children or a case of any other child?" Constructions of unaccompanied children in welfare service provision
Writer: Live Stretmo
Published in Trygged, S and Righard, E (2019) Inequalities and Migration – Challenges for the Swedish welfare state, 2019
Non-formal spaces of socio-cultural accompaniment: Responding to young unaccompanied refugees – reflections from the Partispace project
Writers: Janet Batsleer, Björn Andersson, Susanne Liljeholm Hansson, Jessica Lütgens, Yagmur Mengilli, Alexandre Pais, Therese Wissö
European Educational Research Journal, 2018 Link to the article
Selectivity and internal migration: A study of refugees’ dispersal policy in Sweden
Writers: Yitchak Haberfeld, Debora Pricila Birgier, Christer Lundh, Erik Elldér
Frontiers in Sociology, 2019 Link to the article
Equity and choice for newly arrived migrants
Writers: Dennis Beach, Marianne Dovemark
Neoliberalism and Market Forces in Education. Lessons from Sweden. 2019 To the book chapter
From breaking-ice to breaking-out: integration as an opportunity creation process
Writers: Quang Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez Pasillas, Huong Nguyen Bergström
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 2019 Link to the article
Narratives of integration: Liminality in migrant acculturation through social media
Writers: Amit Mitra, Quang Evansluong
Technological forecasting & social change, 2019 Link to the article
The role of family social capital in immigrants’ entrepreneurial opportunity creation processes
Writers: Quang Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez Pasillas
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2019 Link to the article
The ‘street politics’ of migrant il/legality: Navigating Malaysia's urban borderscape
Writer: Anja K. Franck
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2019 Link to the article
Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives
Writers: Harriet Gray, Anja Franck
Security Dialogue, 2019 Link to the article
Maintainers of Ethnic Hierarchies? Investigating the Relationship Between Media Use and Attitudes Toward Perceived Remote Versus Perceived Close Immigration
Writer: Nora Theorin
Mass Communication & Society, 2019 Link to the article
Exploring Media Use and Perceptions of Swedish News Media Among Immigrants During the Election Campaign 2018
Writer: Nora Theorin
Statsvetenskaplig Tidsskrift, 2019 Link to the article
Some Media Matter More Than Others: Investigating Media Effects on Attitudes toward and Perceptions of Immigration in Sweden
Writers: Nora Theorin, Jesper Strömbäck
International Migration Review, 2019 Link to the article
The Cost of Legality: Navigating Labour Mobility and Exploitation in Malaysia
Writers: Anja K. Franck, Joseph Trawicki Anderson
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2019 Link to the article
Corrupt(ing) Borders: Navigating Urban Immigration Policing in Malaysia
Writer: Anja K. Franck
Geopolitics, 2019 Link to the article
The public and the private in guestworker schemes: examples from Malaysia and the U.S.
Writers: Joseph Trawicki Anderson, Anja Franck
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 Link to the article
Migrant Entrepreneurship Beyond Place and Space: A Call to Explore the Roles of Family Across Borders and Contexts
Writers: Quang Evansluong, Marcela Ramirez Pasillas, Allan Discua Cruz, Maria Elo, Natalia Vershinina
Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2019 Link to the article
Writers: Jacob Sohlberg, Peter Esaiasson, Johan Martinsson
Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2019 Link to the article
Immigrants' electoral participation - the cross-national impact of public and political hostility
Writer: Maria Tyrberg
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019 Link to the article
Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters?
Writer: Lisa Åkesson
Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan: London Link to the book
Family obligations across the European borders: Negotiating migration decisions within the families of post-accession migrants in Sweden.
Writers: Charlotte Melander , Oksana Shmulyar Gréen
Palgrave Communications Link to the article
Trajectories of situated transnational parenting: care-giving arrangements of the east European migrants in Sweden
Writers: Charlotte Melander , Oksana Shmulyar Gréen
In Childhood and Parenting in Transnational settings pp 137-154 Link to the book chapter
Frames of Nostalgia and Belonging: The Resurgence of Reactionary Ethno-Nationalism in Sweden
Writers: Gabriella Elgenius and Jens Rydgren
Special Issue on Far Right Movements, European Societies, DOI. Link to the article
Another Kind of Swede: Swedish Youth’s Ethnic Identity Narratives
Writers: Fanny Gryber, Ann Frisén, Moin Syed, Maria Wängqvist, Ylva Svensson
Emerging Adulthood, vol. 6 no. 1, pp. 17-31 Link to the article
Från invandrarkunskap till hemkultur. Interkulturell pedagogik i svensk utbildning
Writers: Johannes Lunneblad och Nils Hammarén
Barn- och ungdomsvetenskap. Grundläggande perspektiv., Stockholm, Liber, Kapitel i bok 2018
Link to the book presentation
The Multi-Level Governance of Intra EU Movement
Writers: Andrea Spehar, Jonas Hinnfors, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Karin Zelano
Between Mobility and Migration. The Multi-Level Governance of Intra-European Movement - 2018 To the book chapter
Nordic discourses on marginalisation through education
Writers: Joron Pihl, Gunilla Holm, Anna-Leena Riitaoja, Jón Ingvar Kjaran, Marie Carlson
Education Inquiry, 2018 To the article
Mobilising diasporas for justice. Opportunity structures and the presencing of a violent past
Writer: Camilla Orjuela
Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2018 Read the full text here
Security in a Liberal Union: EU Asylum and Migration Control Policies
Writer: Gregor Noll
In Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, A., Michalski, A., Nilsson, N. & Oxelheim, L. (2018). The European Union: Facing the Challenge of Multiple Security Threats, 2018 Link to the book chapter
Linguistic citizenship in Sweden: (De)constructing languages in a context of linguistic human rights
Writers: Tommaso M. Milani, Rickard Jonsson
The multilingual citizen: towards a politics of language for agency and change / edited by Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud and Lionel Wee, 2018 Link to the book chapter
Strategies for recruiting highly skilled migrants from India and China: a case study of firms in Sweden
Writer: Denis Frank
Industrial relations journal, 2018 Link to the article
Amendments and frames: The Women Making History movement and Malmö migration history
Författare: Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Høg Hansen
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 2018 Link to the article
The Lesvos Refugee Crisis as Disaster Capitalism
Writer: Anja K. Franck
Peace Review, 2018 Link to the article
Navigating migrant trajectories through private actors: Burmese labour migration to Malaysia
Writers: Anja K. Franck, Emanuelle Brandström Arellano, Joseph Trawicki Anderson
European Journal of East Asian Studies, 2018 Link to the article
The European Media Discourse on Immigration and Its Effects: A Literature Review
Writers: Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Christine E. Meltzer, Tobias Heidenreich, Beatrice Herrero, Nora Theorin, Fabienne Lind, Rosa Berganza, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Christian Schemer, Jesper Strömbäck
Annals of the International Communication Association, 2018 Link to the article
Self-Selection and Host Country Context in the Economic Assimilation of Political Refugees in the United States, Sweden, and Israel
Writer: Debora Pricila Birgier, Christer Lundh, Yitchak Haberfeld, Erik Elldér
International Migration Review, 2018 Link to the article
Policy Effects of Anti-Immigrant Party Representation on Aid to Vulnerable European Union/European Economic Area Citizens
Writers: Maria Tyrberg, Carl Dahlström
Political Studies, 66 (1), 3-22 (2018) Link to the article
IMMIGRATION CONTROL IN DISGUISE? Civic Integration Policies and Immigrant Admission
Writer: A. Ahlen, Frida Boräng
Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2018 Link to the arrticle
Socio-Political Integration Through Diaspora Organisations and Civil Society Initiatives
Writer: Gabriella Elgenius
I Anthony Heath (ed.), Social Integration: London: The British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 66-75. Read the full text PDF
Frames of Nostalgia and Belonging: The Resurgence of Reactionary Ethno-Nationalism in Sweden
Writer: Gabriella Elgenius
Special Issue on Far Right Movements, European Societies, DOI. Link to the article
The Sweden Democrats and the ethno-nationalist rhetoric of decay and betrayal
Writers: Gabriella Elgenius och Jens Rydgren
Sociologisk Forskning, vol. 54 no. 4, pp. 353–358. Link to the article
Passing the Buck: The case of failing multilevel governance and vulnerable EU migrants in Sweden
Writers: Spehar, A., J. Hinnfors, & G. Bucken‐Knapp (2017).
The Journal of Nordic Migration Research, vol. 7 no. 2. Link to the article
Integration of refugee children and their families in the Swedish preschool: strategies, objectives and standards.
Writer: Lunneblad, J. (2017)
European Early Childhood Education Research, vol. 25 no. 3, pp. 359–369. Link to the article
From "Open Your Hearts" To Closed Borders. Sweden, The Refugee Crisis and the Role of Discourse
Writer: Gregg Bucken-Knapp
M. Barlai, B. Fähnrich, C. Griessler and M. Rhomberg (eds.) The Migrant Crisis: European Perspectives and National Discourses, 2017 To the book chapter
Validation of immigrants' prior foreign learning as a framing practice
Writer: Andreas Diedrich
European Management Journal, 2017 Link to the article
Integration and Language Learning of Newly Arrived Migrants Using Mobile Technology.
Writers: Linda Bradley, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2017
”Invandrarkvinna”, ”svensk” och ”jämställd”. Om kategoriell komplexitet och (o)synliggörande i utbildning, politik och arbete
Författare: Marie Carlson
Publicerad tidskrift för Genusvetenskap, 38 (3), 53-76 Länk till artikeln
Facilitators of Physical Activity: Voices of Adolescents in a Disadvantaged Community
Writers: Linus Jonsson, Christina Berg, Christel Larsson, Peter Korp, Eva-Carin M Lindgren
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2017 Länk till artikeln
Queering multilingualism and politics: Regimes of mobility, citizenship and (in)visibility
Writers: Tommaso M. Milani, Erez Levon
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics / edited by Ruth Wodak, Bernhard Forchtner, 2017 Link to the book chapter
Working with refugees in Gothenburg, Sweden
Writer: Therese Wissö
Families Relationships and Societies, 2017 Link to the article
Ethnic Bonding and Homing Desires: The Polish Diaspora and Civil Society Making
Writer: Gabriella Elgenius
Publicerad i Jacobsson, K. & E. Korolczuk (eds.), Civil Society Revisited: Lessons from Poland, 314. 2017 Link to the book chapter
Supporting decision-making by a health promotion programme: experiences of persons ageing in the context of migration
Writers: Emmelie Barenfeld, Susanne Gustafsson, Lars Wallin, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 2017 Link to the article
Im/Mobility and Deportability in Transit: Lesvos Island, Greece, June 2015
Writer: Anja K. Franck
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2017 Link to the article
Media Effects on Attitudes toward Migration and Mobility in the EU
Writers: Christine E. Meltzer, Christian Schemer, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Jesper Strömbäck, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Nora Theorin, Tobias Heidenreich
Read the report here! (2017)
Urban education and segregation: The responses from young people
Writer: Elisabet Öhrn
I S Ball (Red), Sociology of Education II, volym 3, 2017
Adapting to party lines: the effect of party affiliation on attitudes to immigration
Writers: E. Harteveld, Andrej Kokkonen, Stefan Dahlberg
West European Politics, 40 (6), 1177-1197 (2017) Link to the article