MIM Newsletter Winter 2022
Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) |
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| Here at MIM we are keeping busy despite the Omicron wave. We have a full (online and hybrid) seminar schedule during the spring, we are conducting fieldwork for several projects, we are welcoming a new Guest Professor, and we are continuing to publish as always. While we are already well into 2022, we want to take the opportunity of this year's first newsletter to wish you all a very happy 2022. May it bring us more possibilitites to meet in person and, hopefully, open up our societies to a post-pandemic life. We hope to see you soon! |
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| This spring semester we once again have an exciting line-up of presenters for our weekly Thursday (14:15-16:00) MIM Migration Seminar. The list includes both junior and senior members of staff, as well as invited guests from beyond Malmö University. This week, a former visitig PhD candidate at MIM, Marina Lazëri from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, is presenting on the topic of "Defining Swedishness: when Swedes without a migration background are a local minority". Later this spring we will also have presentations by Russell King, Marta Bivand Erdal, James Hollifield, and Bridget Anderson. Stay tuned for more details ad find the Zoom link by pressing the button below. |
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This spring MIM is organizing a PhD course on International Migration: Theories, Causes, and Consequences in hybrid form. The course provides a deeper understanding of theories and concepts related to causes and consequences of international migration in the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) from a multidisciplinary perspective. The theoretical emphasis is on five interrelated themes: migration and history, transnationalism and mobility, migration and development, migration and governance, and migration and welfare.
Application deadline is March 8. For more information on how to apply see link below. |
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| Professor Bridget Anderson, Specialist Research Institute Director at the Migration Mobilities Bristol, University of Bristol, will soon join us as the Malmö City Guest Professor in Migration Studies (former Guest Professorship in Memory of Willy Brandt) here at MIM. The Guest Professorship within the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) is a donation to Malmö University financed by the City of Malmö when the University was inaugurated. We are excited to welcome Professor Anderson in March 2022! |
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On Monday 14 March, 10:00-11:00, the Precision Health and Everyday Democracy (PHED) commission presents its first report through an online seminar. During the event, the commission introduces the report, considers what has been learnt so far, and opens up for a Q&A. Importantly, the report outlines a series of recommendations divided into the following six categories:
- Communication for health
- Structural basis of health inequity
- Living conditions and employment impact health
- Health is affected by residency status
- The health role of civil society organisations
- Networking between state agencies
You can access the report here (English) and here (Swedish). Press the button below to sign up for the Zoom launch!
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| As part of the JPI funded project Transnational Families in Europe: Care, Inequality, and Wellbeing, MIM researchers Brigitte Suter and Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy, as well as research assistant Mimmi Åkesson, will be collaborating with peer researchers from the Church of Sweden to do fieldwork among transnational families with backgrounds from and connections to multiple countries within and beyond Europe. The peer researchers have their own experiences of living transnational lives and will be conducting interviews with people from their own networks in multiple languages. Below you can read an interview with the research group published by the Church of Sweden. |
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Sayaka Osanami Törngren & Nahikari Irastorza:
“Model minority and honorary White:
Structural and individual accounts on being Asian in Sweden” At: MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD: SOCIOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES December 13-14th, 2021, Stockholm School of Economics
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Liliia Korol & Pieter Bevelander. “Are Immigrants Scapegoats? The Reciprocal Relationships Between Subjective Well-Being, Political Distrust, and Anti-immigrant Attitudes in Young Adulthood, (2022) in Psychological Reports. Available here!
Pieter Bevelander “How Immigrants fare in European Labour markets”, (2022) in Understanding Global Migration,(eds. James Hollifield and Neil Foley), Stanford University press
Hansen, C, (2021) “A critical ethnography of political activism: Challenges related to practical and theoretical closeness to the field”, kritisk etnografi—Swedish Journal of Anthropology. Available here!
Osanami Törngren, S., Färm, K. A., & Ulver, S. Vem syns i etern i färgblinda Sverige?. Vitt eller brett, Institutet för Mediastudier. Available here!
Osanami Törngren, S., & Shinozaki, K. (2021). Reflections on Multiple and Unconventional Positionality through a Lens of Multi-layered Institutional Whiteness: Challenging the Binary. Global South Scholars in the Western Academy: Harnessing Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and Positionality in the Third Space, 108-119.
Strange, Michael and Gustafsson, Hilda and Mangrio, Elisabeth and Zdravkovic, Slobodan (2022) ‘REPORT#1 PHED COMMISSION ON THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE POST COVID-19 SOCIETAL INEQUITY MAKES US VULNERABLE TO PANDEMICS: BASED ON PUBLIC SESSIONS CONDUCTED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2020’. Available here!
Strange, Michael and Gustafsson, Hilda and Mangrio, Elisabeth and Zdravkovic, Slobodan (2022) ’RAPPORT #1 PHED-KOMMISSIONEN FÖR FRAMTIDEN FÖR HÄLSO- OCH SJUKVÅRD EFTER COVID-19 OJÄMLIKHET I SAMHÄLLET GÖR OSS SÅRBARA FÖR PANDEMIER: BASERAD PÅ OFFENTLIGA SEMINARIERSOM HÅLLITS OKTOBER - DECEMBER 2020’. Available here!
Tawat, M. & Lamptey, E. (2021) The 2015 EU-Africa joint Valletta action plan on immigration: A parable of complex interdependence. International Migration, 00, 1– 15. Available here!
Tawat, M. (2021), A lot of people are saying: The new conspiracism and the assault on democracy. Nancy Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead (eds). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2019. 232 pp. Governance. Available here!
Tawat, M., Fake News and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of Practices and Sociopolitical Implications in Cameroon (May 21, 2021) (preprint). Available here!
Tucker, Jason and Bahram, Haqqi. 2021, 'I Must Be from Somewhere. I'm Not from the Moon’: Navigating the Politics of Labelling for Stateless Palestinian Refugees from Syria, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Vol. 3, no 2, p.330-346. Available here! |
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