Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)

REMESO is an institute answering to the Vice Chancellor for interdisciplinary research, education and knowledge exchange on trans-national migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship in light of economic transformations and labour market changes. REMESO is also a division within the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS).

REMESO gather researchers from several departments and runs a PhD program in Ethnic and Migration Studies, an International Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society, the Bachelors program Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA) and an international Master programme in Ethnic and Migrations Studies.

Associate Professor Anders Neergaard is Director of the Institute and Professor Stefan Jonsson is Deputy Director. Associate professor Branka Likic-Brboric is head of the unit.

REMESO develops a multilevel approach to migration, ethnicity and society. The research relates individual experience, local community development and civil society to the restructuring of the labour market, changing frameworks of citizenship and welfare. Thus the research agenda includes policy and practices of governments, public agencies, NGO´s, media, firms and trade unions, contextualised by national state transformations, globalisation and regional integration. REMESO's research also includes projects linking migration and ethnicity to post-colonial historical developments, education and health issues.

Forte has recently evaluated REMESO’s first ten years as an Institute. Read the self-evaluation report and Fortes evaluation below.

REMESO´s research is organized into five Streams:

Migration, Welfare and the Political Economy of Labour Market Segmentation
Globalisation and the Reconstitution of Normative and Legal Frameworks
Post-National Strategies for Growth, Inclusion and Diversity
Citizenship and Ethnic Relations: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives
Migration, Public Service and Health

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Evaluation

Research and doctoral studies
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Research

Migration, Public Service and Health

Research in this stream study welfare institutions with particular focus on health and education and how public and private services are organized and distributed to an ethnically diverse population.

Citizenship and Ethnic Relations: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives

Citizenship and ethnic relations are seen as instances of social formation and collective identification and hence as parts of the most enduring fabrics of human history.

Post-National Strategies for Growth, Inclusion and Diversity

The focus of this stream are strategies for "renewal", in Europe, as part of changes of welfare policy. Strategies for development, inclusion and diversity, from the post-national to the local level, are examined.

Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society

The REMESO Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society offers courses for PhD- and MA-students, on a variety of perspectives on international migration. Courses are taught by REMESO staff and international guest lecturers.

Migration, Welfare and the Political Economy of Labour Market Segmentation

Migration, changing work organisation and ethnic segmentation in private and public sectors of the economy demands new research strategies that relates the global political economy tochanging welfare regimes.

Globalisation and the Reconstitution of Normative and Legal Frameworks

This stream addresses policy challenges brought about by the globalisation, EU enlargement, changing governance of migration and related flexibilization of labour markets and the consequential implications for labour standards.

Doctoral studies

The Doctoral Programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies

The doctoral programme offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary research education in ethnic and migration studies.

Education
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Degree programme

MA in Ethnic and Migration Studies, 120 credits

Learn to analyse the causes of migration, and consequences for formations of race, gender, labor, citizenship, healthcare, welfare and culture. Relates ethnicity and migration to economic and cultural change, to systems of domination and resistance.

News
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Exchange gave new perspectives on research in Serbian minority groups

How are Serbian minority groups in Croatia integrated? This is a question which Aleksandra Paravina from University of Helsinki asks in her PhD-project. From March 2020 she has been a visiting PhD student at the REMESO Institute.

Black Lives Matter - a global human rights movement

The Black Lives Matter movement is an international human rights movement that has existed since 2013. In late spring 2020 the movement spread to countries across the world. LiU PhD candidate Mavis Hooi answers four questions about the movement.

The coronavirus shines a spotlight on health equality

Certain groups of migrants have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus, and people have started to question why. Anna Bredström, who conducts research into ethnicity, has examined health equality.