Forskningsseminarier

Tidigare forskningsseminarier

2024

• Neighborhood Segregation Preferences Among Migrants and Host Community Members in Turkey
  Speaker: Kristen Kao, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
• Individualising Education in Swedish for Immigrants: Challenges and Innovations Across Policy and Practice
  Speaker: Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Lecturer, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg
• Paying attention to people you study: A critique of the Muslims in Europe research, and a suggestion
  Speaker: Jonas Otterbeck, Professor of Islamic Studies, The Aga Khan University, UK
  Co-organized with: Migration and Ethnicity Research Group (MERGU), Department of Sociology and Work Science; Research Group on Young People, Precariousness and Wellbeing, Department of Education, Communication and Learning
• “My Land Lives in Me” (Alan Gilsenan, 2019): on the edge of environmental displacement
  Speaker: Bruna Kadlitz, facilitator, writer, public speaker, humanitarian activist
• Language Learning as a Site for Power and Control: Lived Experiences of Agency and Structure in the Case of Adult Migrant Language Learners in Sweden
  Speaker: Samah Ibrahim, Doctoral Student, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg
• Reconstituting Imagined Communities of Whiteness through Racial Banishment: The Would-Be Deportation Centre Lindholm and the “Ghetto Law” in Denmark
  Speaker: Erling Björgvinsson, Professor of Design, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
• Religion, Diversity, and Secularities-in-Practice: Accommodating Muslim Pupils and Preserving Danish Identity in Multi-Ethnic Danish Schools
  Speaker: Laura Gilliam, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
  Co-organized with: MERGU (Migration and Ethnicity Research Group) and SOCAV (Department of Sociology and Work Science)
• International Students, Forced Migrants, and Legal Liminality in the De Facto State of Northern Cyprus
  Speakers: Athanasia Hadjigeorgiou, University of Central Lancashire Cyprus; Bart Klem, University of Gothenburg
  Co-organized with: Human Rights Seminar Series, School of Global Studies
• Migration, Development, and the Environment: Theory and Some Multi-Level Evidence from the MIGNEX Project
  Speaker: Mathias Czaika, Professor of Migration and Integration, Danube University
• Aesthetic Resistance to Victimhood: Syrian Female Refugees’ Narratives of Displacement through Art and New Technology
  Speaker: Yafa Shanneik, Visiting Professor, Lund University
  Co-organized with: Peace & Development Seminar, School of Global Studies

2023

• Liminality and the Lived Experience of the Law in Medicine: The Legal Consciousness of Physicians in Encounters with People Living as Undocumented Migrants
  Speaker: Josephine T. V. Greenbrook, University of Gothenburg / University of Edinburgh
• Symbolic Violence and (De)colonized Approaches in Humanitarian Care of Gender-Specific Trauma Among Refugee/Migrant Women
  Speaker: Nena Močnik, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Co-organized with: Centre for European Research (CERGU), University of Gothenburg
• European Responses to Forced Displacement from Ukraine: Where Do We Go from Here?
  Speaker: Eleni Karageorgiou, Postdoc, Faculty of Law, Lund University
• Constructing the “Good Citizen”: Discourses of Social Inclusion in Swedish Civic Orientation
  Speaker: Simon Bauer, Doctoral Student, University of Gothenburg
• Contemporary Narratives of Migration: Seeking New Directions
  Speaker: Lena Englund, Senior Researcher, University of Eastern Finland
• TikTok and the Voice of Ukrainian Refugees
  Speaker: Noam Tirosh, Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• The Elusive Triple Win: Addressing Temporary Labour Migration Dilemmas Through Fair Representation
  Speaker: Rainer Bauböck, Professor, European University Institute
• Illiberalism, Migration Policies and the Politics of De-Development in Europe: A Profile of Late Capitalism
  Speaker: Ioana Vrabiescu, Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Biking to Work and Listening to Worship Songs: Religious and Social Support for Refugees from Ukraine in Värmland
  Speakers: Katarina Plank, Karlstad University; Daniel Enstedt, University of Gothenburg
• Settling in Uncertainty and Risk: Polish Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the War in Ukraine
  Speakers: Paula Pustulka, SWPS University Warsaw; Irma Budginaité-Mackiné, Vilnius University
• Temporal Bordering and Its Undoing: Chronoscopy & Resistance in an Era of Externalisation
  Speaker: Loren B. Landau, University of Oxford; University of the Witwatersrand
• ‘Fraid Fraid’ Cowards and the Beloved: Representations of Jamaicans in the Diaspora
  Speaker: Aieka Yasheva Smith, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

2022

• Local Migration Policy: Governance Structures and Policy Output in Swedish Municipalities
  Speaker: Jon Nyhlén, Stockholm University
• Welcome to Your New Job! Refugee Reception and Integration in Swedish Municipalities
  Speaker: Gregg Bucken-Knapp, University of Gothenburg
• Systems of Selection: Designing Refugees in Canada and Sweden, 1960s–1990s
  Speaker: Andreas Lundstedt, University of Gothenburg
• Climate Change and Human Mobility
  Speaker: Fanny Thornton, University of Canberra / Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• What is Home? Syrian Refugees and the Search for Belonging
  Speaker: Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University
• Laughable Borders: On the Humorous in Migration Studies
  Speaker: Anja Franck, University of Gothenburg
• Exile in the Aftermath of Violence: Can Therapy Become a Form of Resistance?
  Speaker: Mayssa Rekhiss, University of Gothenburg; Physician; RICEVE member; ENPA board member
• Navigating the Legal Liminalities of an Unrecognized State: Migrant Precarity and Placeholder Identity Papers in Northern Cyprus
  Speakers: Emmanuel Achiri, Eastern Mediterranean University; Bart Klem, University of Gothenburg
• Social Investment in Times of Large-Scale Migration: Cure or Source of the Migrant Poverty Gap?
  Speaker: Lutz Gschwind, Uppsala University

2021

• Hybridity and Hegemony: The Integration of Portuguese Migrants in Luanda and Maputo
  Speaker: Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg
• Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty: Refugee Governance in Lebanon
  Speaker: Nora Stel, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Anvisning och etablering: Om mottagande enligt 2016 års bosättningslag
  Speaker: Tobias Jansson, University of Gothenburg
• Citizenship as Status, Habitus and Acts: Language Requirements and Civic Orientation in Sweden
  Speakers: Andrea Spehar, Tommaso Milani, Kerstin von Brömssen, Simon Bauer
• Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Receiving Migrants in Northeastern Europe
  Speakers: Wojtek Jezierski, Sari Nauman, Christina Reimann, Leif Runefelt
• Life History Research and Visual Storytelling: Experimenting with New Forms of Knowledge Creation
  Speaker: Cindy Horst, PRIO
• A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy
  Speaker: Peo Hansen, Linköping University
• Contextual Effects on Educational–Occupational Mismatch by Gender and Immigration Status: A Cross-Country Comparative Study in Europe
  Speaker: Debora Pricila Birgier, University of Gothenburg

2020

• Sexual Integration? Teaching “Danish Sexual Morals” to Asylum Seekers
  Speaker: Kristine Köhler Mortensen, University of Gothenburg
• Four Frames for (Mis)understanding Brexit: Three Red Herrings and a White Whale
  Speaker: Steve Garner, Cardiff University
• Integrationsfrämjande genom dialog: Att leda gruppsamtal
  Speaker: Thomas Jordan, University of Gothenburg
• Middle East, Islam and Women, Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (with migration focus)
  Speaker: Rola Abu Zeid-O’Neill, University College Cork
• Co-Creating Caring Relationships Among Central European-Born Children and Youth
  Speakers: Charlotte Melander, Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, Ingrid Höjer, University of Gothenburg
• In Search of European Asylum Solidarity Post-2015
  Speaker: Eleni Karageorgiou, Lund University
• The Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration
  Speakers: Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanovic, Andrea Spehar, University of Gothenburg

2019

• Bricolage as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding Access to Healthcare in Superdiverse Populations
  Speaker: Jenny Phillimore, University of Birmingham
  Co-organized with: MERGU – Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, University of Gothenburg
• Legal Consciousness and Physicians’ Rejection of Law in Encounters with Undocumented Migrants
  Speaker: Josephine Greenbrook, University of Gothenburg / University of Edinburgh
• Why Does a 1.5°C Warming Goal Matter to Migration?
  Speaker: Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg
• A Mobile Ethnography of Things via Public Art Intervention: Migratory Cardboard Waste in Hong Kong
  Speaker: Tintin Wulia, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg
• Understanding the Impact of Migration on Societies of Origin
  Speaker: Anne White, University College London
  Co-organized with: MERGU – Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, University of Gothenburg
• Governing the Deportation Limbo: Detention and Exclusion of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Denmark and Sweden
  Speaker: Annika Lindberg, University of Gothenburg
• Putting Oneself in the Other’s Shoes: Trust and Difference in Relations Between Civil Servants and Residents in Marginalised Areas
  Speaker: Stina Hansson, University of Gothenburg
• Asylum and Refugee Law in the USA – National Developments and the Texas/Mexico Border
  Speakers: Barbara Hines, Denise Gilman, University of Texas at Austin; Commentator: Gregor Noll, University of Gothenburg
• From the Vanishing of Sameness to the Revival of Whiteness
  Speaker: Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis
• Conceptions and Narratives of Assimilation in Diasporic Contexts
  Speaker: Barzoo Eliassi, Linnaeus University
• The “Right” Kind of Queer: Racialised Grids of Intelligibility in Swedish Gender Exceptionalism
  Speaker: Katharina Kehl, Linköping University
• Closing the Gaps: An Analysis of Nordic Countries’ Responses to Children Seeking Asylum
  Speaker: Bina D’Costa, UNICEF

2018

• Refugees, States and the Politics of Uncertainty: Governing Informal Syrian and Palestinian Settlements in Lebanon
  Speaker: Nora Stel, Maastricht School of Management / Utrecht University / American University of Beirut
  Co-organized with: Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
• Negotiating Distance After Migration: Sending and Carrying Things Across Borders
  Speaker: Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool
• Exile as Context, Exile as a Methodological Tool for Understanding Circulation of Knowledge
  Speaker: Karolina Enquist Källgren, University of Gothenburg
• Bordering Practices: Accidental Crackdowns and Humanitarian Border Work
  Speakers: Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Darshan Vigneswaran, Evie Papada, Antonis Vradis, Anja Franck
• Life-boats and Narratives About Women’s Lives Across Borders
  Speakers: Ann-Dorte Christensen, Aalborg University; Marit Benthe Norheim, visual artist
• The Politics of Return: Exploring the Future of Syrian Refugees and Repatriation
  Speaker: Ahmet İçduygu, Koç University; CGM Scientific Advisory Board member
• Between East Coast and West Bank: Second-Generation Palestinian-Americans Find Their Space
  Speaker: Thomas Brocket, University College London
  Co-organized with: School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
• Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labour Market
  Speaker: Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
• Translating Policies into Practice: Organising Labour Market Integration in the Gothenburg Region
  Speaker: Andreas Diedrich, University of Gothenburg
• Labour Migration and Industrial Relations
  Speaker: Sandra Engelbrecht, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
• Justice on the Move: Evaluating Migration Governance in the European Space
  Speaker: Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
  Co-organized with: CERGU, University of Gothenburg
• Nationalism, Populism, and Radical Right Politics in Europe (and Beyond)
  Speaker: Jens Rydgren, Stockholm University
  Co-organized with: Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
• Ontological Security and the Metamorphosis of the Beast: The EU and Migration
  Speaker: Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
  Co-organized with: CERGU, University of Gothenburg
• After Deportation: The Case of Afghan Deportees
  Speaker: Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University
  Co-organized with: MERGU – Migration and Ethnicity Research Group, University of Gothenburg
• The “Infected Border”: Comparative Notes Across the North Atlantic
  Speaker: Ruben Andersson, University of Oxford
• Unaccompanied Children: Spending Your Youth Waiting in Uncertainty
  Speaker: Live Stretmo, University of Gothenburg
• Career Trajectories and Professional Identities of Highly Educated Female Migrants
  Speaker: Maja Cederberg, Oxford Brookes University
• Fixed Lines, Permanent Transitions
  Speaker: Andrew Canessa, University of Essex
  Co-organized with: Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg
• Knowing Who You Are: Ethnic Identity Among Young People in Sweden
  Speakers: Ylva Svensson, University of Gothenburg / University West; Fanny Gyberg, University of Gothenburg
• The Right to Education for Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Speaker: Alebachew Kemisso, Addis Ababa University
• Asylum Seekers in Sweden: Lessons from a Survey Panel
  Speaker: Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg

2017

• The Public, the Private, and Guestworkers in the United States: Examining Dynamics of Control
  Speaker: Joseph Andersson, University of Gothenburg
• North–South Migration and Postcolonial Encounters: Portuguese Migrants in Angola
  Speaker: Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg
• Migration Studies – Where Next?
  Speaker: Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford
• Go Home? The Performance Politics of UK Immigration Control
  Speaker: Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths College, London
• Everyday Work or a Specific Assignment? Multi-Agency Collaboration in Immigrant Integration in Finland
  Speaker: Sari Vanhanen, University of Jyväskylä
  Co-organized with: Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg
• The Minclusion Project: Mobile Applications for Arabic Migrants in Sweden
  Speakers: Khaled Al-Sabbagh, Lorna Bartram, Linda Bradley, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
• Post-World War II Migrations in Finland: From an Emigration to an Immigration Country
  Speaker: Tuomas Martikainen, Migration Institute of Finland
• Human Rights and Climate Change Displacement: A Bangladesh Perspective
  Speaker: Md Abdul Awal Khan, Eastern University, Dhaka
  Co-organized with: Peace and Development Research, University of Gothenburg
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the US: Can a Dream Come True?
  Speaker: Jesus Velasco, Tarleton State University
• Governing the Deportation Limbo: Selective Control of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Denmark and Sweden
  Speaker: Annika Lindberg, University of Bern
• Transit Migrants of Southeast Asia and Their Access to Higher Education
  Speaker: Gül Inanç, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore