Migration and Diversity
The research group Migration and Diversity explores how globalization is expressed in transnational mobility and cultural diversity in various contexts.
About us
The research group Migration and Diversity emerges from a long tradition of research at the School of Global Studies. The research group explores how globalization is expressed in transnational mobility and cultural diversity in various contexts, including Angola, Cap Verde, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar (Burma), Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and the United States.
The research is carried out by members of this group covers a number of sub-themes of relevance to broader migration and development debates. One of these concerns the links between migrants and their homelands, such as the role of diaspora groups for processes of transitional justice and the role of remittances for social relations and agency. Another sub-theme explores the experiences of asylum-seekers, labor migrants, returnees, and residents of multicultural neighbourhoods – in relation to their immigration status, identity, and sexuality and as embedded in various geopolitical and postcolonial contexts.
In recent years a number of projects have further taken an interest in the governance and infrastructure of migration, including the outsourcing and privatization of immigration controls and labor migration schemes, often emphasizing how different groups of migrants navigate these regimes to increase their room to manoeuvre.
Research projects
- Everyday practices of integration: Negotiating identity through culture, ethnicity and religion
Lisa Åkesson and Jörgen Hellman - Portuguese migrants in Mozambique: Postcolonialism and exchange of knowledge
Lisa Åkesson, Inês Macamo Raimundo and Anette Hellman - Navigators of the "in-betweeen": Brokers manoeuvring il/legal terrains of gendered labour migration control between Nepal and the Gulf countries
Susanne Åsman - The governance of asylum at the southeast EU border islands
Alexandra Bousiou - Negotiating Migration Trajectories through the Migration Industry. A Case Study of Bangladeshi Migrants in Italy
Emanuelle Brandström Arellano - Work, temporary residence, and deportability: Research on asylum seekers’ room to manoeuver in the Swedish labor market
Anja Karlsson Franck and Joseph Anderson - In the shadows of ‘order at the border’: Stateless and ‘undeportable’ Palestinians in the Swedish migration regime
Helena Lindholm - Diaspora youth and the struggle for democracy
Camilla Orjuela and Arne Wackenhut - The logistification of migration and the production of liminality - the Settlement Act and migrants’ struggle for housing in Stockholm
Mauricio Rogat - Refugee Migration and Cities: Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden (SIPGI)
Andrea Spehar (PI), Mine Eder, Alexander Jung, Kristen Kao, Ellen Lust, Isabell Schierenbeck and Josepha Wessels
