The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School in Migration and Integration

• 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

Mixed Methods in Ethnic and Migration Research

This course addresses dilemmas and difficulties that researchers confront when collecting and interpreting data about migration, ethnic relations, diversity, discrimination, racism and social inclusion/exclusion. The course provides an orientation to the main methodological questions that need to be grasped when conducting research in this field.

Different methodological solutions to common research problems will be presented and discussed, covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, including ethnographic research and visual methodologies. The course highlights the cross-disciplinary aspects of migration research as well as the additional demands placed on data collection and sampling, such as ethical requirements and ethical sensitivity associated with different methods.

Other key questions covered in the course concern accessibility to and reliability of data, how to handle confidential research material, and specific questions related to multi-strategy research design. Students will also engage with power relations (majority/minority) concerning insider/outsider dilemmas, problems of representation and cross-cultural translation and other, related ethical considerations.

Course leaders

• Olav Nygård, Linköping University
• Kristoffer Jutvik, Linköping University

Climate Change and Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This course addresses the complex relationship between migration and climate change and provides interdisciplinary analytical tools for understanding the multicausality of migration. Being based in the social scientific field, it will also involve climate science perspectives. The course discusses various methodological approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, to study the complexities of social, political and ecological drivers behind migration, their interactions and variations across regions and scales of governance.

Drawing on the most recent theoretical advances and a broad variety of empirical studies from different world regions, the course develops a critical engagement with different frameworks for exploring the climate migration nexus. The course also dwells on issues of climate and mobility justice from a North-South perspective and explores the state of the current global policy development in the field. Important international actors such as the UN and the EU will be analysed and problematized in terms of the ability to provide viable support and protection for climate migrants.

Course Lecturers

• Deliang Cheng, Professor of Physical meteorology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Dr. Julia Curio, climatologist, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Dr. Fanny Thornton, legal scholar, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Dr. Haodong Qi, economic demographer, University of Malmö
• Mathias Czaika, Professor of Migration and Integration, Danube University
• Karsten Paerregaard, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg

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

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

• 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