Presentations

2024 

• Neighborhood Segregation Preferences Among Migrants and Host Community Members in Turkey: A Pre-Analysis Plan with Preliminary Results Paper by Ahmet Akbiyik, Karen Ferree, and Kristen Kao, February 9-10. 

Kristen Kao, at EGAP Displacement, Migration, and Integration Priority Theme Meeting, New York University, Washington DC, USA. 

2022 

• Unpacking the Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis: The effects of immersive virtual reality on attitudes and behaviors towards refugees in Jordan, Turkey, and Sweden, 25 October 2022  

Kristen Kao, at The Role of Political and Social Institutions in the Integration of Refugees into Host Cities (SIPGI) Conference, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• A sense of presence; visual ethnography using immersive 360-video with Syrian refugees, 25 October 2022 and 2nd December 2022.

Josepha Wessels, on 25 October at The Role of Political and Social Institutions in the Integration of Refugees into Host Cities (SIPGI) Conference, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

And on 2nd December at the Visual Teaching and Practice Mini-Conference, in Malmö, Sweden. 

• A Multidimensional Understanding of Syrian Refugees’ Integration in Jordan, Turkey, and Sweden (2021-2022) Policy Report, 24 October 2022

Mina Ghassaban Kjellen and Iman Abu Zueiter, at The Role of Political and Social Institutions in the Integration of Refugees into Host Cities (SIPGI) Conference, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats: Refugee integration in Jordan, Sweden and Turkey, 24 October 2022

Isabell Schierenbeck and Andrea Spehar, at The Role of Political and Social Institutions in the Integration of Refugees into Host Cities (SIPGI) Conference, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Individualization as key to labour market integration for migrants? Street-level bureaucrats' and migrant clients' perspectives on policy implementation gaps in Sweden, 24-26 August 2022

Andrea Spehar and Isabell Schierenbeck, at the RC21 "Ordinary cities in exceptional times" Conference in Athens, Greece.

• Navigating through Depoliticization: International Stakeholders and Refugee Reception in Jordan and Turkey, 29June-1 July 2022

Alexander Jung, at the IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) 19th Annual Conference in Oslo, Norway.

• Newly arrived migrants meet street-level Bureaucrats: Refugee integration in Jordan, Sweden and Turkey, 13-14 June 2022

Tareq Naseef, Isabell Schierenbeck, and Andrea Spehar, at the SWEMENA Conference 2022 - Building Networks across Sweden, the Middle East and North Africa, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

2021

• Migration in the Welfare State: Encounters between Syrian Refugees and Frontline Workers, 6 December 2021

Isabell Schierenbeck and Andrea Spehar, at Lund: Studentlitteratur, Sweden.

• Presentations to the Youth International Think Tank at Lindholmen Visual Arena on” Living in Europe: Work, Welfare, and Family” and “Challenges for Democracy in Post-Conflict Settings” with Q&A on migration issues, 23 November 2021

Andrea Spehar and Kristen Kao, at the International Youth Think Tank / Urban Strandberg

• Migration in the Welfare State: Encounters between Syrian Refugees and Frontline Workers, 8-9 November 2021

Isabell Schierenbeck, at European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel, and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

• Implementing integration policy: encounters between street-level bureaucrats and newly arrived migrants in Sweden”, 13 October 2021

Isabell Schierenbeck and Andrea Spehar, at the Central of Global Migation seminar at University of Gothenburg

• International Donors and Refugee Reception in Centralized States: Navigating Domestic Politics in Turkey and Jordan, 7-9 July 2021

Ezgi Irgil, Alexander Jung, Isabell Schierenbeck and Andrea Spehar, at the 18th IMISCOE Annual Conference, in Oslo, Norway. 

• A sense of presence; participatory digital ethnography using immersive 360-video with Syrian refugees in Sweden, Jordan and Turkey for 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspective stories, 19-28 March 2021

Josepha Wessels, at The Royal Anthropological Institute Ethnographic Film Festival Conference (online) on the RAI Panel 12.

• Refugee Migration and Cities in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden; using participatory 360-video as a method for research, 4 February 2021

​​​​​​Josepha Wessels, at a MIM Migration seminar (online), Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Sweden. The seminar was attended by Andrea Spehar who participated in a scholarly debate and discussion with colleagues from Malmö University.

2019

• From Apathy to Empathy? The Effects of Face-to-Face Dialogue and Virtual Reality Immersion on Attitudes towards Refugees of War in Sweden, Turkey, and Jordan, 1 November 2019

Kristen Kao and Josepha Wessels, at Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies Conference, the Centre of Global Migration, University of Gothenburg, November 2019.

• National visions and local realities: Comparing governance approaches to refugee integration in Adana, Gothenburg and Irbid, 1 November 2019

Ezgi Irgil, A. Jung, Isabell Schierenbeck and Andrea Spehar, at Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies Conference, the Centre of Global Migration, University of Gothenburg, November 2019.