In my doctoral research project, I explore local level housing policies through the lens of a contemporary restrictive and impermanence-oriented migration regime in Sweden. Taking the contemporary shift in European and Swedish migration politics as a starting point I scrutinize through what mechanisms and techniques a restrictive turn at the national level implicates the right to housing, in particularly for refugee migrants, at the local level.
Nicolina Ewards Öberg
PhD student
In my doctoral research project, I explore local level housing policies through the lens of a contemporary restrictive and impermanence-oriented migration regime in Sweden.
Doctoral project
My research is situated within migration studies, urban research, and human geography.
Publications
2026
WORKING THE GREY AREA: Street-Level Refugee Housing Governance in Sweden
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
(Article in journal)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.70139
Refugee Settlement Policy within a Racial Capitalist Housing Market
Racial Capitalism: In the Shadow of the Swedish Model, p. 196-223
(Chapter in book)
https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004757639-009
2024
Gustav LIDÉN & Jon NYHLÉN, Local Migration Policy: Governance Structures and Policy Output in Swedish Municipalities
International Review of Public Policy, Vol. 6
(Article, book review)
https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/13gg2