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Maria Persdotter

Associate Professor

Senior lecturer at the Centre for Local Government Studies and the Division of Social Work. As a researcher, I focus mainly on issues at the intersection of migration- and social policy.  

The intersection of social policy and migration policy

My research mainly concerns the intersection of social policy and migration policy. I also have a keen interest in urban politics, and in feminist and critical race theory.

I am employed as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Culture and Society and split my time between the Centre for Local Government Studies and the Division of Social Work.

Currently, I am involved in a number of different research projects that all concerns inclusion and exclusion from the Swedish welfare state, homelessness and inequality.

My educational background is in human geography. I hold a double PhD degree in Urban studies from Malmö University (SE) and Roskilde University (DK). My PhD dissertation, Free to Move Along, was based on an in-depth qualitative study of the municipal-level governance of homeless Roma EU citizens during 2014-2016. The thesis is available here.

Teaching

I teach in the undergraduate program in social work and supervise candidate and master students in social work. 

Publications

ResearchGate

2024

Anna Lundberg, Sandra Mantu, Maria Persdotter, Jean-Pierre Tabin, Ulrika Wernesjö (2024) The welfare state Critical Social Policy, Vol. 44, p. 588-604 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lisa Marie Borrelli, Anita Heindlmaier, Anna Lundberg, Sandra Mantu, Maria Persdotter, Ulrika Wernesjö (2024) Banishment Critical Social Policy, Vol. 44, p. 683-699 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maria Persdotter (2024) Ett stort samhällsproblem har landat på vår grannes tomt: Sorgenfrilägret, 2014-2015 Läget i staden: Fallet Norra Sorgenfri, mellanrummet och innerstaden som löfte, p. 219-242 (Chapter in book)
Maria Persdotter (2024) Book Review of Lidén, Gustav and Nyhlén, Jon 2022. Local Migration Policy: Governance Structures and Policy Output in Swedish Municipalities. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 320 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 14, Article 5 (Article, book review) Continue to DOI

2023

Maria Persdotter (2023) The Othering and Dispossession of Romania Roma - from Romania to Sweden Urban Matters (Article in journal)

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