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, an International Graduate School and an international Master programme within the area of Ethnic and Migration Studies. It also rund the Bachelors program Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA).

REMESO develops a multilevel approach to research on migration, ethnicity and society that relates individual experience, local community development and civil society to the restructuring of the labour market, changing frameworks of citizenship and welfare. The research agenda include policies and practices of governments, NGO´s, media, firms and trade unions, contextualised by 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. Read more about our research here.

Professor Anders Neergaard is Director of the Institute and Professor Stefan Jonsson is Deputy Director. Associate professor Branka Likic-Brboric is head of the Division within the Department of Culture and Society.

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Portrait on Paula Mählck. University lecturer at REMESO.

Paula Mählck studies racism in academia

Discrimination in academia and how race, ethnicity, gender and postcolonial relations construct conditions for research and education. This has been the focus of Paula Mählck's research. She will be at REMESO for a two-year lectorship.

SEK 21 million to research in humanities and social sciences

Four LiU researchers will share more than SEK 21 million from the Swedish Research Council’s funding for the humanities and social sciences. Also, three LiU-based journals will together receive SEK 2.2 million.

Pouran Djampour, Linköping University, researches how welfare services for migrants are negotiated.

Pouran Djampour studies negotiations about which migrants are allowed welfare services

How do the negotiations in society about which migrants are to stay and be allowed welfare services, and which are not, look like? This is studied by Pouran Djampour, new post doc at REMESO. Djampour answers four questions about her research.

Exhibition about covid-19 and migration. By the students in the master's programme Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Master's students create exhibition about migration and covid-19

How is the corona pandemic affecting integration and migration? The students in the master’s program in ethnic and migration studies have studied this. The results are shown in an exhibition at Campus Norrköping.

1,2 ton konst landar på Bredgatan. Höljet är gjort i brons....

Art installation The House reflect cracks in society

Until the end of October, a film sculpture entitled The House will be on display on Bredgatan in Norrköping. The artists who created the installation want to shine a light of the situation of many job-seeking immigrants in Europe today.

Aleksandra Paravina, University of Helsinki, was a visiting PhD student at REMESO institute.

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.

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Man in refugee camp behind the Belgrade Central Station

The Migration, Ethnicity and Society research environment

The research environment is a meeting place for researchers who want to develop a multilevel approach to the understanding of migration, ethnicity and society.

REMESO Projects

In the Research Database our current and terminated research projects are presented, with information about publications and impact.

The Board of REMESO and the REMESO International Advisory Board

REMESO is proud to have a board consisting of prominent researchers and intellectuals and an International Advisory Board (IAB) composed of internationally distinguished scholars in the field of REMESO’s research.

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.

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.

Courses within the doctoral programmes at the Department of Culture and Society

The Department of Culture and Society offers a variety of graduate courses within the humanities and social sciences. The courses are offered to doctoral students at Linköping University and other institutions of higher education.

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Ethnic and Migration Studies, Master's Programme, 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.

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Social and Cultural Analysis, 180 credits, 180 credits

The Social and Cultural Analysis programme focuses on modern society and its´changes. You will study peoples´ varied living conditions, as well as political, social and ethnic identities and conflicts.

Migration, Health and Biopolitics, 7.5 credits

In this advanced course students examine health related issues using intersectional theories of migration, ethnicity and racism. Students will learn about encounters between sociocultural and (bio)medical perspectives on health, and explore themes...

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REMESO SEMINARS

Wedensdays at 1:15-3 pm. Open seminars and Working seminars via Zoom.

REMESO. Conference. Archive

Information about past conferences and workshops, download proceedings and more.

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Subscribe to the REMESO newsletter and receive updates on our latest activities and research. The newsletter is sent out a couple of times per semester.

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Ambivalent Solidarities? Migrant Labour and Trade Unions in South Africa, USA and Sweden.

Seminar at REMESO 2/16, 2021

Speakers: Janet Munakamwe, Els de Graauw, Shannon Gleeson, Anders Neergaard

Commentators: Bridget Anderson and Ronaldo Munck

Moderator: Carl-Ulrik Schierup

Unionizing the precarized, syndicalism and the contemporary working class - panel discussion

Speakers: Eli Adekur, Marissa Begonia, Daria Bogdanska, Franck Iyanga Makelo

Moderator: Asher Goldstein

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Head of Division

Research coordinator and secretary

Director of REMESO research

Director of Studies

Director of REMESO Graduate School

Director of Doctoral program in ethnicity and migration

Staff

Haqqi Bahram

PhD Student

Erik Berggren

Senior Research Coordinator

Anna Bredström

Senior Lecturer

Pouran Djampour

Postdoc

Asher Goldstein

PhD Student

Peo Hansen

Professor

Mavis Hooi

PhD Student

Stefan Jonsson

Professor

Kristoffer Jutvik

Senior Lecturer

Lisa Karlsson Blom

PhD Student

Karin Krifors

Assistant Professor

Branka Likic-Brboric

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Catrin Lundström

Associate Professor

Rudeina Mkdad

PhD Student

Paula Mählck

Senior Lecturer

Anders Neergaard

Professor

Olav Nygård

Research Assistent

Celina Ortega Soto

PhD Student

Carl-Ulrik Schierup

Zoran Slavnic

Associate Professor

Claudia Tazreiter

Professor

Julia Willén

Assistant Lecturer

Aleksandra Ålund

Address

Postal address

Linköping University
Department of Culture and Society
REMESO
SE-601 74 Norrköping
Sweden

Visiting address

Kåkenhus
Kungsgatan 40
House 1
Floor 4 and 5
Campus Norrköping

Phone: +46 11 36 30 00

Affiliated Researchers

Robert Aman

Associate Professor

Bridget Anderson

Professor, University of Bristol

Gurminder K Bhambra

Professor, University of Sussex

Eva Bolander

Senior Lecturer

Moa Bursell

Researcher, Stockholm University

Barzoo Eliassi

Senior Lecturer, Linnaeus University

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

Resarcher, PhD, London Metropolitan University

Måns Fellesson

Researcher, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Anna Gavanas

Investigator, PhD in Social Anthropology

Sabine Gruber

Senior Lecturer

Nacira Guenif

Professor, Universite Paris-8

Jennie K Larsson

Investigator, PhD, The Swedish Employment Agency

Aliaksei Kazlou

Assistant Professor

Martin Klinthäll

Senior Lecturer

Shai Mulinari

Researcher, PhD, Lund University

Ognjen Obucina

Researcher, The French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)

Sayaka Osanami Törngren

Lecturer, Malmö University

Annette Thörnquist

Associate Professor, Forschungsinstitut für Arbeit, Technik und Kultur (F.A.T.K.), Tübingen

Andrey Tibajev

PhD Candidate, REMESO, Linköping University

Madina Tlostanova

Professor

Xolani Tshabalala

Researcher, PhD, Freelance

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Department of Culture and Society

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

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Paula Mählck studies racism in academia

SEK 21 million to research in humanities and social sciences

Pouran Djampour studies negotiations about which migrants are allowed welfare services

Master's students create exhibition about migration and covid-19

Art installation The House reflect cracks in society

Exchange gave new perspectives on research in Serbian minority groups

Black Lives Matter - a global human rights movement

The coronavirus shines a spotlight on health equality

REMESO at the 8th World Social Forum of Migrations

Researchers recives funding from Volkswagen Foundation

Wives who accompany husbands working abroad

Movement across borders – not an option for everyone

Workshop on Dance and Migration

Your diagnosis may depend on where you’re from

Master’s students graduate in ethnicity and migration

Migration to Norrköping the focus of student report

Labour market professor on Asian tour

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The Migration, Ethnicity and Society research environment

REMESO Projects

The Board of REMESO and the REMESO International Advisory Board

Doctoral studies

The Doctoral Programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies

Graduate School in Migration, Ethnicity and Society

Courses within the doctoral programmes at the Department of Culture and Society

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Ethnic and Migration Studies, Master's Programme, 120 credits

Social and Cultural Analysis, 180 credits, 180 credits

Migration, Health and Biopolitics, 7.5 credits

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REMESO SEMINARS

REMESO. Conference. Archive

Subscribe to the REMESO newsletter

REMESO TALKSShow/Hide content

Ambivalent Solidarities? Migrant Labour and Trade Unions in South Africa, USA and Sweden.

Unionizing the precarized, syndicalism and the contemporary working class - panel discussion

Social mediaShow/Hide content

Follow REMESO on facebook and Twitter

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Head of Division

Research coordinator and secretary

Director of REMESO research

Director of Studies

Director of REMESO Graduate School

Director of Doctoral program in ethnicity and migration

Staff

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Visiting address

Affiliated Researchers

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