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Peter Scholten is full professor of Migration and Diversity Policy at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology. He is director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic network of research institutes on migration, integration and social cohesion, and editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies. Besides, he is coordinator of the master Governance of Migration and Diversity (cooperation of Leiden University, Delft University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam), and coordinator of the Erasmus Migration & Diversity Institute (EMDI). Currently, he is leading several international research projects, among it the CROSS-MIGRATION project (a H2020 funded project on the systematic cross-national accumulation of knowledge).His research interests include migration, diversity governance, multi-level governance, comparative public policy.
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| Priscilla Solano, Senior Lecturer at MIM and the department of Global Political Studies has launched her book, "Shelter on the journey. Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration", published with Temple University Press. The book explores the politics of the shelters, their social world, and the dynamics of charity and solidarity, as well as the need for humanitarian assistance and advocacy for dignified and free transit migration. You can order your copy here. |
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Prof Maja Povrzanović Frykman has received partial funding (26 000 SEK) from the Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) for organizing the symposium “Academia and cultural production as post-migrant fields: Swedish and European perspectives”, in Malmö, between 17-18 October 2024.
Valter Sandell-Maury, PhD student at MIM has received a travel grant from the Crafoord Foundation for a two-month research visit at the University of Bristol. |
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Eline Waerp, PhD researchers at MIM, has written in the Eurac Science Blog about the way Frontex frames non-rescue at the borders as humanitarian. She argues that the European Border and Coast Guard agency (Frontex), believes that search and rescue constitutes a so-called ‘pull-factor’ which entices more people to attempt the dangerous crossing and die at sea, and in this way portrays non-rescue as being in migrants' best interest.
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Brigitte Suter co-organised the symposium “Linking policy and academia: Transnational Families in Europe” on 13/14 May at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca (UBB) Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The event which was co-organised by the IMISCOE Standing Commmittee on Migrant Transnationalism (MITRA) and the COST Action Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (TraFaDy), brought together academics and practitioners from a wide range of organisations.
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1. My PhD research is about how the European Border and Coast Guard agency (Frontex) securitizes migration through its production of a particular kind of border knowledge. By examining Frontex’s risk analysis reports from 2010-21, I look at the construction of risk, crisis, and humanitarianism in the reports, and how this is key to the gradual normalizationof securitization in EU external border control.
2. A main finding of my thesis is that securitization occurs in both banal and explicit ways in Frontex’s border knowledge and the field of EU external border control. This is important because most securitization literature depicts securitization as being either banal or explicit, whereas treating it as a scale opens for a more nuanced analysis.
3. My plans next is focusing on the digitalization of border controls at airports, and looking especially at how this impacts border guards perceptions of risk in their daily work. I will do this as a postdoc at the FAU Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN).
4. Doing a PhD was a steep learning curve for me, so it is hard to name just one lesson learned. Perhaps one advise I would give to new PhD students is to not treat the dissertation like a blackbox but a task that you can break down into smaller tasks, that might make it seem more overcomable. |
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1. My research is about social mix interventions in Denmark, resulting from the so-called ‘ghetto legislation’. I explore how these are legitimized in policies and how residents experience – and resist – these interventions, which are targeting multi-ethnic public housing neighbourhoods with e.g., privatization and demolition.
2. My main empirical finding is that the ghetto legislation has contradictory consequences which reach beyond the targeted neighbourhoods. Ghetto policies aim to achieve mixed neighbourhoods, increased safety and integration, but causes lessmixed and more divided neighbourhoods, unsafety and exclusion from equal rights, democratic influence and local and national communities. As these consequences emerge already during the implementation phase, my research suggests that policy makers need to take into consideration the immediate and wide-reaching consequences and not solely focus on evaluating the outcomes at a neighbourhood level.
3. My plans for the future is to apply for post doc positions, preferably in Denmark. Ideally, I would be employed at a Danish university but in a research project where I can make use of my academic network on the Swedish side of Øresund.
4. One advice I would give to a new PhD student is to remember that as a PhD student, you are learning by doing and that it is OK to be confused and feel incompetent sometimes during the PhD journey. Remember to acknowledge your own progress. |
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1. My research is about the perception and use of race in the group construction of Swedishness. My dissertation aimed to disentangle the ways in which race, whiteness, and Swedishness are interconnected.
2. Results indicate that although ‘race’ as a concept might evoke uncomfortability – especially in white ethnic Swedes – it is still a primary way that Swedishness is assessed. This challenges ideas around Swedish colorblindness and the ways in which a Swedish ingroup is constructed.
3. I have applied to jobs and grants. But my short term plans are to lay in the sun during the summer while toasting the fact that I am a Doctor.
4. Take breaks. |
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1. The European Union Agency for Asylum’s increased involvement in asylum case processing and migration governance with a focus on their frontline staff and activities in Greece.
2. In this thesis, I show how discrepancies between official values and actual practices reduce caseworker morale, despite local managers' unsuccessful efforts to adjust normative narratives. I also examines differences in discretionary practices among EUAA and national asylum caseworkers, noting that bureaucratic structures hinder caseworkers from exercising discretion. Furthemore, I evaluate the EUAA's role in fostering policy change through bureaucratic tools, highlighting the agency's ability to unify diverse actors for despite political challenges. These results are important because they reveal potential for bureacratic reform within the EU asylum system beyond what is typically disucssed. Looking closley at the agency’s inner-workings is also a contribution in and by itslef, since few other resreachers have had access to interveiws EUAA caseworkers in a similar way.
3. Do more research about asylum in the EU!
4. Go to as many seminars as you can, even if the topic seems completely irrelevant or even uninteresting. You never know in advance what may come out of it. |
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The final project symposium of the project Academia and Cultural Production as Postmigrant Fields in Sweden led by Prof Maja Povrzanović Frykman will take place at Malmö University on 17-18 October 2024. Regina Römhild, Professor at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, will be the keynote speaker. More information to follow soon.
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Dr Sayaka Osanami Törngren has participated in a debate titled "can equality data counter ethnic discrimination and racism?", organized by Swedish labour unions. You can view the debate here.
Dr Sayaka Osanami Törngren's research on understanding discrimination in recruitment in Sweden was presented in Social Innovation. You can read it here.
Dr Sayaka Osanami Törngren makes the case that Sweden should introduce equality data in a new issue of Varlds Horisont. You can read her work here.
Rebecca Söderberg has written about the Danish Ghetto Law and its effect on cities and its residents. You can read her piece here.
Magdalena Ulceluşe has been interviewed in the European Parliament's monthly magazine, about the rise of Romania's far right party AUR, and what their success could mean for the European Parliament. You can read the article here.
Eline Waerp has written about Frontex’s normalization of crisis at the EU borders. You can read her piece here. |
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| The Migration Seminar is a multidisciplinary forum for researchers with an interest in migration, integration, diversity and related issues. The Seminar endeavours to facilitate an exchange of ideas and knowledge and to stimulate a pluralism of perspectives, theories and methods. |
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Hemmaty, M., Lind, J., Hansen, C., & Khoury, N. (2024). “We Never Say We Are Integrating People!” Interpretative Repertoires of Integration Among Local Stakeholders in Sweden. Journal of International Migration and Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01127-y
Jensen, Tina Gudrun (2024) ”Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing.” Space and Culture, 12063312231220265.
Mozetič, K., Lebek, K. & N. Ratzmann (2023) Using the lens of emotions. Exploring Ukrainian refugee women’s anchoring processes in Berlin. Culture, Practice & Europeanization 8(2): 238–249. DOI: 10.5771/2566-7742-2023-2-238.
Osanami Törngren S, Schütze C, Van Belle, E and Nyström, M. (2024) "We choose this CV because we choose diversity" -What do eye movements say about the choices recruiters make? Front. Sociol. Sec. Race and Ethnicity Volume 9 doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1222850
Söderberg, R. (2024). Multiscalar Un-homing: Residents’ Experiences of Interventions for Social Mix. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 14(1): 6, pp. 1–20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.646
Suter, B. and Ramsøy, Ij. (2024) “Reciprocity as a Value In Integration: Integration Workers’ Reflections On The Role Of Gift-Giving For The Process Of Integration“, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 14(3): 1, Pp. 1–16. Doi: Https://Doi.Org/10.33134/Njmr.614 |
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