Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)

REMESO is a division for research, education and knowledge exchange on trans-national migration, ethnic diversity and citizenship in light of economic transformations and labour market changes.

REMESO gather researchers from several departments and runs a PhD programme, an International Graduate School and an international Master's programme within the area of Ethnic and Migration Studies. It also rund the Bachelor's programme Social and Cultural Analysis (SKA).

REMESO is also an institute, Institute for research on migration, ethnicity and migration, that 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.

Research

Doctoral Studies

Education

Seminars and Conferences

News

Ph.D.:s

10 April 2025

An unique Exchange within Austria and Sweden

A group of LiU PhD candidates took part in a research exchange programme in Vienna. The programme is a collaboration in philosophy, sociology, and migration studies, that strengthens the research and the academic ties between Austria and Sweden.

Students taking the course Scholars at risk student led workshop

02 April 2025

Academic freedom in practice

The group of master’s students on the Ethnicity and Migration programme at LiU are unique. They are the first in Sweden to take a university course in how to create a campaign in support of an imprisoned researcher and for academic freedom.

Neferti Tadiar, LiU guest professor in the name of Moa Martinson, and Jonathan Beller, visiting professor at REMESO.

08 November 2024

Learn more of the world through a unique film series

The film series Moving Worlds includes seven films that, in various ways, explore the global forces shaping today’s world – forces that drive migration, conflict, environmental destruction, but also people’s resistance to violent change.

Contact us

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

Organisation