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

REMESO GRADUATE SCHOOL

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.

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.

Directors of the Graduate School

Peo Hansen, Director
Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University.

Gabriella Elgenius, Co-Director
Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg.

Andrea Spehar, Co-Director
Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Director of the Centre on Global Migration (CGM) at the University of Gothenburg.

For information, please access the Graduate School website here

 

Introduction to Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies


18 September – 20 October, 2017. On-campus week 02-06 October.
Course Directors: Associate Professor Zoran Slavnic and Postdoc Simone Scarpa, REMESO


This course addresses dilemmas and difficulties that researchers confront when collecting and interpreting data in studies of ethnic relations, ethnic diversity, discrimination, racism, social inclusion/exclusion, and migration. Research methods discussed include quantitative studies on
integration and migration, qualitative methods such as discourse analyses, long-term field work, participant observation as well as multi-strategy research. The course addresses the crossdisciplinary and trans-national aspects of research that place extra demands on research
methods in data collection, sampling, comparative policy framework analysis, usage of terminology, comparisons of discourses and ideological representations in a sometimes contested and controversial field of inquiry.

Deadline for applications: 18 August 2017


Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates

30 October – 1 December. On-campus week, 13–17 November

Course Directors: Professor Peo Hansen and Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO
Confirmed Guest Lecturer: Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Sociology, Univerity of Warwick

This course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking on ethnicity and nationalism, including 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-national. Much emphasis is put on the ways in which nation and ethnicity need to be re-thought and re-historicized when confronted with issues of coloniality, postcolonialty, gender and sexuality. Questions of methodology are highlighted, addressing in particular methodological nationalism, methodological Eurocentrism and other forms of tacit methodological assumptions that have influenced research. In this way, the course also aims to stimulate and enhance students’ ability to carry out empirical research.

Deadline for applications: 10 October 2017

Contact: peo.hansen@liu.se, stefan.jonsson@liu.se


General information:

• The courses are offered to postgraduate students (PhD or MA).
• 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping.
• Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
• Accommodation is provided for all course participants during on-campus week.

For information and application form, se links on this page and/or contact: 
Graduate School Coordinators Branka Likic-Brboric  branka.likic-brboric@liu.se

Courses Autumn 2023

Housing Segregation and the Challenge of Building Sustainable Migration Policies (7,5 ECTS)

Course Calendar

Course Period: 20 November – 22 December 2023

Course Week in Norrköping: 4 – 8 December 2023

Accommodation in Norrköping is covered for all PhD students who are admitted to the course.

 

Application

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2023

Use this form for application.

 

Course Directors and Lecturers

Kristoffer Jutvik, Assistant Professor, REMESO

Mauricio Rogat, Postdoc, REMESO

If you like to contact anyone about the course, please send an e-mail to any of the course directors.

Confirmed Lectures

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, Linköping University, REMESO

Kristoffer Jutvik, Linköping University, REMESO

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).

Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates

11 September – 12 October. On-campus week in Norrköping, 25–29 September

Accommodation in Norrköping is covered for all PhD students who are admitted to the course.

Course Directors and Lecturers

Professor Peo Hansen, REMESO, Linköping University
Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, Linköping University
Professor Gabriella Elgenius, SOCAV, University of Gothenburg

 

Confirmed International Lecturers

  • 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.
  • Sujata Patel: Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professor, Umeå University. Author of Doing Sociology in India (Oxford UP, 2016); and editor of Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India (Oxford UP, 2022).



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.

Application

Deadline for application: 1 August 2023.

For information further contact the course directors:

Peo Hansen, peo.hansen@liu.se
Stefan Jonsson, stefan.jonsson@liu.se

Guest lecturers

Listed here are some of the international guest lecturers who have taught at the REMESO Graduate School in 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

Grad School courses

Here is a sample of courses that have been offered by the REMESO Graduate School over the years:

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

Contact us

Director of The REMESO Graduate School 

Peo Hansen

Professor
 

Gabriella Elgenius

Professor
  • University of Gothenburg, Department of Sociology and Work Science
 

Andrea Spehar

Associate professor
  • University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science

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