Meet the Directors
The Graduate School in Migration and Integration is run by the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University (LiU) and the Department of Sociology and Work Science (SOCAV) at the University of Gothenburg (UGOT). At UGOT the school also benefits from close cooperation with the Centre on Global Migration (CGM), the Department of Law and the School of Global Studies.
Peo Hansen
Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University and Director of the Graduate School. He has been senior fellow at New York University’s Remarque Institute and visiting professor at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center in Paris. Peo Hansen’s research examines the historical and contemporary trajectory of European integration, and he has written extensively on the questions of migration, citizenship, nationalism, and identity. As part of an EU project he examines the economics of migration in the EU and Sweden. His research also examines colonialism’s role in the historical development of European integration and in the EU’s current geopolitics. His books include Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (co-author Stefan Jonsson, Bloomsbury, 2014); A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy (Agenda Publishing, 2021); and Migrationsmyten: Sanningen om Flyktinginvandringen och välfärden – ett nytt ekonomiskt paradigm (Leopard, 2021).
Gabriella Elgenius
Gabriella Elgenius is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg, Director of the Centre on Global Migration (CGM), and Co-Director of the Graduate School. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Migration Studies. Prior to joining the University of Gothenburg, she worked at the Universities of London and Oxford and held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a British Academy Fellowship at the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College. Her research is situated within political sociology and is comparative, multi-method, and interdisciplinary in scope. It focuses on civil society, diversity, inequality, and integration; nostalgia and ethnic nationalism of the radical right; and the changing political landscape in Sweden and the United Kingdom, including work on Brexit, racialized logics, and diaspora. She has also published extensively on nationalism, nation-building, and political symbolism. Her work appears in British Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Societies, Sociological Forum, Social Semiotics, Voluntas, Voluntary Sector Review, and Frontiers in Political Science. Her books include Symbols of Nations and Nationalism: Celebrating Nationhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011/2018); National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750–2010: Mobilization and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change (with Peter Aronsson, Routledge, 2015); and Expressions of Nationhood: National Symbols & Ceremonies in Europe (LSE Press, 2005).
Andrea Spehar
Andrea Spehar is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre for European Research (CERGU) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Andrea Spehar has a broad research interest is comparative public policy, particularly with regards to gender policy and migrant integration policy in the European context. Her work has appeared, among others, in the Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, Citizenship Studies and International Feminist journal of Politics. She holds various board and committee positions including those at the Swedish Research Council and other research policy organizations.
