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Gabriella Elgenius

Professor

Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap
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031-786 37 69
0766-10 95 00
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gabriella.elgenius@gu.se
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Skanstorget 18
41122 Göteborg
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Box 720
40530 Göteborg

Om Gabriella Elgenius

Om Gabriella Elgenius

Gabriella Elgenius är professor i sociologi vid Göteborgs universitet, föreståndare för Centrum för global migration (CGM) och biträdande föreståndare för Vetenskapsrådets forskarskola för migration och integration. Hon är en av redaktörerna för Journal of Comparative Migration Studies och är medlem i styrgruppen för Centre for the Study of Nationalism vid Köpenhamns universitet. Innan hon började vid Göteborgs universitet innehade hon tjänster vid University of London och University of Oxford samt ett Marie Curie Fellowship vid London School of Economics and Political Science och ett British Academy Fellowship vid sociologiska institutionen och Nuffield College i Oxford.

Hennes forskning är förankrad i politisk sociologi och är komparativ och interdisciplinär i sin inriktning och använder sig av mixade metoder. Forskningen behandlar civilsamhälle, migration och integration samt nationalism, nostalgi och den radikala högern.  Hennes forskning har publicerats i tidskrifter såsom British Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, European Societies, Sociological Forum, Social Semiotics, Voluntas, Voluntary Sector Review och Frontiers in Political Science. Bland hennes böcker finns 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 (tillsammans med Peter Aronsson, Routledge, 2015) samt Expressions of Nationhood: National Symbols & Ceremonies in Europe (LSE Press, 2005).

Gabriella leder forskningsprojekten Localities, om civilsamhälle och arbete i områden präglade av socioekonomiska utmaningar i Sverige och Storbritannien (FORTE); Rethinking Integration (VR); samt Empowering Cities of Migration om sociospatial integration och lokalt deltagande i Sverige, Tyskland och Storbritannien (JPI HORIZON/FORMAS). Hon är även medsökande i det VR-finansierade projektet om den populistiska radikala högern, som leds av Jens Rydgren vid Stockholms universitet, samt i programmet The Challenges of Polarization on the Swedish Labour Market (FORTE), lett av Tomas Berglund vid Göteborgs universitet.

Gabriella undervisar och handleder inom områden relaterade till migration och integration, civilsamhälle, nationalism, radikala högern och stratifiering i organisationer. Hon undervisar även i avancerade kvalitativa forskningsmetoder och teori, teoretisk analys och kodning på forskarnivå.

Gabriella är också Visiting Scholar vid UCL, Associate Member vid sociologiska institutionen vid University of Oxford samt Fellow vid RSA (Royal Society of Arts) i London.

Ongoing Research Projects:

Rethinking Integration: a comparative mixed methods study of civil society action in vulnerable superdiverse neighbourhoods in Sweden (funded by Swedish Research Council, VR):

This project builds on a multi-dimensional approach to integration and inclusion and aim for a detailed picture of civil society’s role in aiding integration, to develop theory around integration and social capital while contributing to long-standing debates about civil society, integration and diversity. The project fills a gap in current scholarship by approaching civil society responses to integration across multiple domains in Sweden’s so called ‘vulnerable areas’, linking these to the local context of vulnerability, to superdiversity, to formal and informal variants of civil society and variants of social capital: https://www.vr.se/english/mandates/funding-and-promoting-research/research-on-migration-and-integration/research-projects-about-migration-and-integration/rethinking-integration-a-comparative-mixed-methods-study-of-civil-society-action-in-vulnerable-superdiverse-neighbourhoods-in-sweden.html

The role of civil society in supporting employability in diverse areas in Sweden and the United Kingdom (funded by FORTE):

This project explores the role of civil society in supporting employability and access to the labour market in diverse neighbourhoods in Sweden and the UK. The local context is especially relevant since civil society is increasingly recognised in supporting residents accessing local labour markets. More specifically, our aim is to investigate under what conditions and by which mechanisms civil society initiatives supports employability in diverse neighbourhoods in Sweden and the UK. We compare these two countries, both diverse and with different welfare systems that impact the environments within which civil society operates. Both Sweden and the UK are also experiencing a transition towards welfare pluralism in recent years.The little work undertaken on civil society and its role in supporting access to employment, has mainly focused on registered formal organisations (CSOs). Yet, formal organisations constitute only one part of a larger civil society. Thus, our comparative focus includes both formal organisations and informal initiatives in Sweden and the UK, research that will help to capture how different types of CSO support labour market participation and how their modes of operation are shaped by national regulatory frameworks and local contexts. https://localitiesproject.home.blog/

EMPOWER: Empowering Cities of Migration: new methods for citizen involvement and socio-spatial integration (Joint Programme Initiative on Urban Migration, funded by FORMAS, the ESRC, and the German Research Council): This is a collaboration between universities, research institutes, local authorities, urban and housing planners and civil society organisations in Sweden (Gothenburg), England (Birmingham) and Germany (Bochum). The aim is to establish an International Community of Practice and a Theory of Change to more effectively engage and empower citizens in cities and neighbourhoods experiencing population change, socio-spatial segregation and housing challenges. We build on previous research and networks, a mixed methods design, to co-design new gender-aware approaches for housing and integration in urban areas. A key part is to upskill, train and work together with Community Researchers (in Swedish Medborgarforskare): https://www.gu.se/en/research/empowering-cities-of-migration-new-methods-for-citizen-involvement-and-socio-spatial-integration-empower

Why Do Working Class Voters Support the Populist Radical Right?" (funded by the Swedish Research Council, VR) led by Jens Rydgren, SU. The project "Why Do Working Class Voters Support the Populist Radical Right? A Mixed-Methods Study of a Changing Political Landscape in Sweden" explores the relationship between class politics and support for the populist radical right. The projects' overall aim of answering questions about why and how the Sweden Democrats has gained electoral support among the working class in Sweden. We address the theoretical puzzle of realignment processes in which working class voters has increasingly started to move from center-left to the populist radical right. This is an important societal change that has significant consequences for governance and policy making. Since populist radical right parties tend to side with center-right parties in parliament, working class voters’ increased support for the populist radical right have contributed to shifting policies toward the right. https://www.su.se/english/research/research-projects/why-do-working-class-voters-support-the-populist-radical-right

Migration and Polarization: patterns, mechanisms and experiences or workpackage 3, lead by Gabriella Elgenius, of Fortes research programme on Challenges of Polarization on the Swedish Labour Market lead by Tomas Berglund, addresses the integration of migrants and minorities into the Swedish labour market by assessing distribution across the occupational structure. https://www.gu.se/en/research/the-challenges-of-polarization-on-swedish-labour-market

Diaspora, Civil Society and BREXIT: Polish civil society and migration in the UK. This project investigates processes of social solidarity and division within diaspora civil societies that keep them together but also divides them, taking the Polish civil society abroad as the case in point. The aim is to contribute towards explanations as to how and why diaspora civil societies develop the way they do. Previous projects include Gabriella Elgenius PI, funded by the British Academy, John Fell and Kerstin Jacobson, PI, funded by Swedish Research Council. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/dr-gabriella-elgenius