The Graduate School in Migration and Integration is run by two main partners: the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University (LiU) and the Department of Sociology and Work Science (SOCAV) at the University of Gothenburg (GU). At GU the school also benefits from close cooperation with the Centre on Global Migration (CGM), the Department of Law and the School of Global Studies.
The aim of the graduate school is to provide PhD students with advanced teaching, research training and networking opportunities. It aspires to create a unique intellectual milieu for PhD students who write their dissertations on migration and integration.
By drawing upon the expertise at both Linköping University and the University of Gothenburg, the graduate school offers several courses, some of a comprehensive nature, others more specialised. Our programme includes courses on ethnicity, nationalism, racism; intersectional perspectives; mixed methods in migration research; theories of international migration; climate change; empire and geopolitics; migration and law; citizenship, civil society and the welfare state; housing segregation; political economy; and migration and labour market integration.
The school incorporates a wide range of research directions and theoretical and methodological approaches and attends to international migration and integration from contemporary as well as historical perspectives. Our course programme also benefits from a broad experience with inter- and multidisciplinary approaches, qualitative, quantitative, participatory and mixed methods.
The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School in Migration and Integration
The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School offers courses for Swedish and international postgraduate students (PhD) that address a variety of perspectives on international migration and integration.
Courses Spring 2024
Attributing Responsibility for Transnational Violations of Migrant Rights
In this course, we track violations of migrant rights, such in cases of pushbacks, refoulement or dismal detention conditions, emerging in the context of such multiparty, transnational cooperation. We focus on forms of cooperation involving the EU, its Member States or both. For Northern states, it leverages power differentials between the North and the South while shifting legal responsibility for rights violation onto Southern partners. Attributing international legal responsibility for violations of migrant rights in a multiparty, transnational context is difficult, and the resulting responsibility gap might be an incentive for migration control by proxy.
This course has three main objectives. First, we shall examine how North-South cooperation increases the risk of violating migrant rights. We will focus on EU cooperation with four countries – Niger, Serbia, Tunisia and Turkey. Second, we shall explore how recent international legal debates on the expansion of responsibility attribution may be leveraged to address legal loopholes and to craft arguments that engage the legal responsibility of states in the North. Third, we will discuss the political logic of responsibility shirking through multiparty, transnational cooperation, and of the countermoves by academic researchers.
Course leaders
Dr. Eleni Karageorgiou, Faculty of Law, Lund University
Professor Gregor Noll, Department of Law, Gothenburg University
Course Lecturers
Eleni Karageorgiou, Faculty of Law, Lund University
Gregor Noll, Department of Law, Gothenburg University
Professor Peo Hansen, Linköping University
Confirmed International Lecturers
B.S. Chimni, Jindal Global University, India (by link)
Gamze Ovacik, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey/McGill University, Montreal, Canada
About the course
Duration
26 February – 29 March 2024, On-campus week in Gothenburg, 11–15 March
Location
Hybrid. On-campus week in Gothenburg, 11-15 March 2024. Accommodation in Gothenburg is covered for all doctoral students who are admitted to the course.
Language
English
Study pace
100% 7,5 ECTS
How to Apply
Deadline for applications is 14 February 2024
Use this application form (external link to Göteborgs University)
(please note that the course title is stated in a slightly different manner)
Course website
Al information about this course is rewritten from the course website at University of Gothenburg.
Guest lecturers
Here is a list over some of the international guest lecturers who have taught at the REMESO Graduate School in the recent years:
- Anders Stephanson, Columbia University
- Ann Phoenix, University of London
- Beate Volker, Utrecht University
- Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol
- Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
- Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
- Ellie Vasta, Macquarie University
- Floya Anthias, University of Roehampton
- Gail Lewis, The Open University
- Giovanna Campani, University of Florence
- Guiseppe Sciortino, University of Trento
- Gülay Toksöz, Ankara University
- Gurminder Bhambra, University of Sussex
- Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt
- Jason Frank, Cornell University
- Judy Fudge, McMaster University
- Lois Wise, Indiana University
- Lucy Vickers, Oxford Brookes University
- Manuela Boatca, University of Freiburg
- Marco Martiniello, University of Liège
- Martina Tazzioli, Goldsmiths University of London.
- Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
- Raul Delgado Wise, Autonomous University of Zacatecas
- Russell King, University of Sussex
- Stefan Rother, University of Freiburg
- Steve Fenton, University of Bristol
- Steve French, Staffordshire University
- Ursula Apitzsch, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt
- Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths University of London
Previous grad School courses
Here is a sample of courses that have been offered by the REMESO Graduate School:
- Introduction to Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Citizenship, Welfare and Integration in the Shadow of the European “Refugee Crisis”
- Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates
- Interrogating the “Refugee Crisis”
- Theories and Politics of International Migration
- International Migration, Ethnicity and Gender: Intersectional Perspectives on Labour, Power and Citizenship
- Empires and Ethnicities: Critical Problems in Social Theory, Historiography and Ethnicity
- Citizenship, Ethnic Division and Social Exclusion: National and Post-national Perspectives
- Globalization, Migration and Development
- Social Capital, Stratification and Integration: A Critical Approach
- Migration and Labour in a Global Economy
- Research, Policies and Perspectives on Diversity, Equality and Discrimination
- Migration, and the Political Economy of Ethnic and Gender Segmentation: Issues of Globalisation, Work and Welfare
Courses Autumn 2023
Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism:
Historical and Contemporary Debates
Course Description
The course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking and debates on ethnicity and nationalism. This includes questions of national and ethnic identification and mobilization as well as theories on multiculturalism. Drawing on contemporary, historical and comparative examples, the course engages with different understandings of ethnic solidarities, nationhood and citizenship.
Students also explore more recent debates on supranationalism, cosmopolitanism, populism and the post- and transnational. Much emphasis is put on the ways in which both historical and contemporary notions of nation and ethnicity need to be re-thought and re-historicized when confronted with issues of migration, empire, coloniality, gender, class and caste. Questions of methodology are also highlighted, addressing methodological nationalism, methodological Eurocentrism and other forms of tacit methodological assumptions that have influenced research. In this way, the course aims to stimulate and enhance students’ ability to carry out empirical research.
Lecturers
- Professor Peo Hansen, REMESO, Linköping University
- Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, Linköping Universit
- Professor Gabriella Elgenius, SOCAV, University of Gothenburg
- Hans Kundnani: Associate fellow and former Europe programme director at Chatham House, London. Author of The Paradox of German Power (Hurst, 2016) and Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (Hurst, 2023). Hans Kundnani writes regularly for The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman and Foreign Affairs.
- Anna Bredström, Associate Professor of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Linköping University
- Hans Kundnani, Associate Fellow Chatham House, London
- Patricia Lorenzoni, Researcher, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, Uppsala University
Housing Segregation and the Challenge of Building Sustainable Migration Policies
Course Description
The implementation of efficient migration policies lies at the core of the transformation into sustainable societies on a global scale. Yet, there is currently little agreement on a “best practice” and consequently notable disparities in migration policy across European nation-states, both at the national and local level of government, resulting in a variety of policy structures and approaches to refugee reception and housing.
The course explores state-of-the-art research on integration, segregation, and housing, with an empirical focus on the Swedish context in combination with international examples. Highlighting the current restrictive trend in migration and settlement policy, the course lays a special focus on the impact of temporality, both in terms of residence status and refugee housing. Central to the course is the discussion about the potential paradoxical outcomes inherent in when different institutional strategies are seen in the light of various sustainability aims, such as economic inclusion, family formation, gender equality, and educational possibilities (among others).
Lectures
- Kristoffer Jutvik, Assistant Professor, REMESO, Linköping University
- Mauricio Rogat, Postdoc, REMESO, Linköping University
- Irene Molina, Uppsala University, Institute for Housing and Urban Research
- Andrea Spehar, Gothenburg University, Department of Political Science
- Emma Holmqvist, Uppsala University, Institute for Housing and Urban Research
- Maria Persdotter, Linköping University, Division of Social Work
- Olav Nygård, REMESO, Linköping University
- Kristoffer Jutvik, REMESO, Linköping University
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