Migration and Integration: People, meetings and methods

GU 2025/3979

Appe, S., & Oreg, A. (2020). Lost and Found in Upstate New York: Exploring the Motivations of “Lost Boys” Refugees as Founders of International Nonprofit Organizations. Administration & Society, 52(8), 1209–1238. (29 pages)

Casteleyn, L. (2024). ‘I Had the Feeling I Had the Rehearsal With You’. Autoethnographic Reflections on Preparing Applicants for their Asylum Interview Within LGBTIQ+ Organisations. DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 11(2). (18 pages)

Chess, K. (2021). Famous Men Who Never Lived. Tin House Books. (328 pages)

Halpern, J. (with Sloan, M.). (2020). Welcome to the New World. Bloomsbury Publishing. (183 pages)

Klarenbeek, L. M., & Weide, M. (2020). The participation paradox: Demand for and fear of immigrant participation. Critical Policy Studies, 14(2), 214–232.

Larrison, J., & Edlins, M. (2020). Exploring the Responsibilities of Street-Level Bureaucrats through the Perspectives of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth and Their Sponsors. International Journal of Public Administration, 43(2), 126–136. (10 pages)

Nordberg, C., & Simola, A. (2025). Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language. Social Policy and Society, 24(1), 127–138. (11 pages)

Sundbäck, L. (2024). Between the Client and the Institutional System: Street-level Bureaucrats’ Discretion, Positioning, and Trust in Institutional Encounters with Forced Migrants in Finland and Sweden. Social Policy and Society, 1–14. (14 pages)

Weiss, N., & Gren, N. (2021). Mission Impossible? The Moral Discomfort among Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees. Nordisk Välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research, 6(3), 192–203. (11 pages)

Further reading in the form of journal articles and book chapters (approx. 1000 pages) will be made available at the beginning of the course via Canvas. Each student also selects, in consultation with the instructor, a number of research articles (approx. 200 pages) for use in connection with assignments and exercises.