MIM Academic Record 2016

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MIM

Malmö Institute for Studies of

Migration, Diversity and Welfare

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MIM Academic Record 2016

PUBLISHED BY Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)

Malmö University

205 06 Malmö, Sweden www.mah.se/mim

EDITED BY Merja Skaffari-Multala and Angela Bruno Andersen

Online publication: Malmö University Electronic Publishing, www.mah.se/MUEP

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About MIM

MIM, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, was estab-lished on 1st January 2007 as a research institute at Malmö University. It strives to be a vibrant Swedish centre for research on migration, diversity and welfare, while at the same time keep a high international profile.

MIM welcomes international scholars who choose to locate or undertake parts of their research projects in Sweden. The Willy Brandt Guest Professorship is a fully financed research position at MIM which hosts prominent researchers from all over the world.

MIM is directed by Professor Pieter Bevelander and consists of a nucleus of senior and junior researchers, the guest professor and a network of affiliated researchers.

Research

Researchers affiliated with MIM focus on processes of mobility, inclusion and exclusion and its varying expressions in politics, policies, places, institutions as well as people’s everyday lives. Research results are published in books, peer-reviewed journals as well as in our own publication series accessible via our homepage. News about our research is disseminated four times per year via our newsletter.

Networks & Activities

MIM organises workshops and conferences, and is represented in various organ-isations for migration related research such as the IMISCOE board, the NMR board and the Metropolis steering committee.

MIM contributes to the newly developed PhD programme for studies of Migration, Urbanisation and Societal Changes (MUSA), started in March 2013 at Malmö Uni-versity.

The weekly Migration Seminar is a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers inside and outside Malmö University, which also attracts policymakers and specialists from outside academia.

MIM Staff 2016

Director

Pieter Bevelander, Professor Administrative Director Louise Tregert Administrator Merja Skaffari-Multala

Willy Brandt Guest Professors

Giuseppe Sciortino Autumn 2015 – Spring 2016 Joaquín Arango - Autumn 2016

Keith Banting – Autumn 2016

Willy Brandt Research Fellow

Erica Righard, PhD, Associate Professor – January 2016 Nahikari Irastorza, PhD – February 2016 -

Willy Brandt PhD candidate Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy, PhD student

Researchers at MIM 2016

Beint Magnus Aamodt Bentsen, PhD student; Ioana Bunescu, PhD; Daniela DeBono, Senior Lecturer; Inge Dahlstedt, Phil. Lic.; Henrik Emilsson, PhD; Christian

Fernández, Associate Professor; Björn Fryklund, Professor Emeritus; Gabriela Galvao Andersson, PhD student; Anders Hellström, Associate Professor; Derek Stanford Hutcheson, Associate Professor; Peter Håkansson, PhD; Christina Johansson, Senior Lecturer; Linda Lill, Senior Lecturer; Jacob Lind, PhD student; Anna Lundberg, Associate Professor; Elisabeth Mangrio, Senior Lecturer; Sayaka Osanami Törngren, PhD; Bo Petersson, Professor; Margareta Popoola, Associate Professor; Maja

Povrzanovic Frykman, Professor; Anne Sofie Roald, Professor; Mikael Spång, Associate Professor; Michael Strange, Associate Professor; Brigitte Suter, PhD; Slobodan Zdravkovic, Associate Professor; Anders Wigerfelt, Associate Professor; Berit Wigerfelt, Associate Professor

Affiliated researcher at MIM 2016

Carin Björngren Cuadra, Associate Professor; Benny Carlson, Professor; Katarina Carlzén, Project Leader

Post docs in Refugee Migration

Malmö University has made a significant commitment to refugee migration research, among other things by creating six two-year post-doctoral positions that were

announced through an international call Spring 2016. MIM as a coordinator of the post doc program welcomes and introduces the new post docs and their respective departmental affiliations:

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Jason Tucker at Global Political Studies (Faculty of Culture and Society, starting October 2016)

Erin Cory at the School of Arts and Communication (Faculty of Culture and Society, starting January 2017)

Anna-Karin Ivert at Criminology (Faculty of Health and Society, starting September 2016)

Katarina Sjögren Fors at Care Science (Faculty of Health and Society, starting August 2016)

Tessa Verhallen at Social Work (Faculty of Health and Society, starting January 2017)

Article on postdoc programme kick off 9 March, 2017

Read more about refugee research at Malmö University (in Swedish)

Visiting scholars 2016

Daniel Auer, PhD student, University of Lausanne

Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in 1.9 – 30.9.2016

Diana Cucos, Associate Professor, Academy of Sciences of Moldova Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in 11.1 – 30.6.2016

Martina Cvajner, Assistant Professor, University of Trento Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in March – May 2016

Flavia Fossati, PhD, University of Lausanne

Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in 1.9 – 30.10.2016

Tinatin Gvenetadze, PhD student, Tbilisi State University Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in 1.9 – 30.06.2017

Marc Andrée Luik, PhD student, Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany Visiting scholar at MIM, Malmö University in 2016

Per Mouritsen, Research Professor, Aarhus University

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MIM Board 2016

Chair

Kent Andersson, Member of Steering Committee of the international network METROPOLIS, Member of External Advisory Committee of the European

Commission-funded Network of Excellence IMISCOE, Mayor of the City of Malmö

Members

Linda Lill, PhD, Head of Department of Social Work, Malmö University Carina Listerborn, Professor in urban planning and design; urban and gender researcher, Faculty of Culture and Society, Malmö University

Marie-Louise Niklasson, HR officer, IKEA

Jonas Otterbeck, Professor inIslamology, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University

Bim Riddersporre, PhD, Speech Pathologist, Clinical Psychologist. Vice Dean at Faculty of Education, Malmö University

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Guest Professorship in Memory of Willy Brandt

The Guest Professorship in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) in Memory of Willy Brandt is a gift to Malmö University financed by the City of Malmö. It was donated to The School of IMER on the occasion of the inauguration of Malmö University on 31 August 1998, and signed by Ilmar Reepalu, Chairman of the Municipal Executive Board. Between 1998 and 2007 the Guest Professorship in Memory of Willy Brandt was placed at the School of IMER and since 2007 has been housed at MIM.

The purpose of the Guest Professorship is to strengthen research at Malmö University in the field of IMER. The City of Malmö sought, via the Guest Professorship, to reinforce contacts with international experts in order to ensure that they would become an integral part of research and teaching in the field of IMER. To this end, an internationally oriented Guest Professorship creates a constant exchange of knowledge and ideas and enhances Malmö University’s academic strength clustered at MIM. During their stays, the Guest Professors share their expertise with a wide audience of academics, students and the interested public in a series of lectures and debates at the university as well as open lectures at Malmö City Library co-organised with Europa Direkt.

Willy Brandt Guest Professors 2016

Giuseppe Sciortino (Autumn 2015 – Spring 2016)

Giuseppe Sciortino is a professor of sociology and an internationally renowned expert on migration from the University of Trento in Italy.

Joaquín Arango - Autumn 2016

Joaquín Arango is a sociologist and an experienced specialist in international migration, diversity and integration from Complutense University in Madrid, Spain.

Keith Banting – Autumn 2016

Keith Banting is a political scientist and experienced specialist in policy analysis, diversity and integration from Queens University in Kingston, Canada.

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Conferences, Workshops and PhD Courses organised by MIM 2016

25–26 January, 2016

Willy Brandt Guest Professorship 15th Anniversary Academic Symposium Current Themes in Migration Research: Where Do We Go from Here?

Niagara, Malmö University. The two-day symposium took place in a stimulating atmosphere of academic exchange and socialization, which attracted participants from near and far, academics as well as the wider public, senior researchers as well as PhDs and students.

Willy Brandt Guest Professorship 15th Anniversary Academic Symposium, Niagara, Malmö University (Photo: Merja Skaffari-Multala 26 January 2016)

3–4 February, 2016

Joint Workshop on Methodology in Migration Studies for application proposals on migration studies of PhD students at Malmö University from all faculties.

18 May, 2016

Presentation on inventory of all refugee related research at Malmö University conducted by Erica Righard and Mikael Spång. The university invests in refugee migration through extra research funds to the faculties. The inventory shows a

considerable volume of research, primarily linked to Sweden and Malmö as receiving contexts. Read about the inventory (in Swedish)

25–26 May, 2016

Conference Museums in Times of Migration and Mobiity: Processes of Representation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Social Change

Orkanen, Malmö University. The conference was organized by Christina Johansson and attracted 160 participants from academia, museums, NGO’s, public

administration and politics from around the world. The Swedish minister of Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, held the inaugural speech (read here) and Professor Peggy Levitt from Wellesley College and Harvard University held the keynote (listen to the interview here).

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9 15–16 June 2016

International Conference on Migration, Irregularisation and Activism: Challenging Contemporary Border Regimes, Racism and Subordination

Orkanen, Malmö University. The conference was organized by among others Jacob Lind and Ioanna Tsoni and attracted over 200 participants with keynote speeches by Bridget Anderson (Oxford University, Britain), Liz Fekete (Institute of Race Rela-tions, Britain) and Mercedes Jiménez (University of Algarve, Portugal). The conference connected critical migration scholars and activists from around the world in a constructive discussion about how to address issues of the irregularisation of an increasing number of migrants.

22–23 September

Transit Europe Symposium, Mobility, Communication and Governance - Ørecomm International Conference.

Niagara, Malmö University.

22 October

Let's Talk integration - Integration Conference Orkanen, Malmö University

24–25 November MIM Internat

Hotel Öresund, Landskrona

MIM research symposium, 24-25 November 2016, Hotel Öresund, Landskrona (Photo: Inge Dahlstedt 25 November 2016)

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3rd AMIS-MIM Master's Conference and presentation of MIM Master Award Orkanen, Malmö University

3rd AMIS/MIM Masters Conference on Migration Studies,6 December 2016, coffee break at Orkanen, Malmö University (Photo: Merja Skaffari-Multala)

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Public lectures (co-)organised by MIM 2016

22 January, Malmö City Library, co-organised with Europa Direct "They think I am a free lunch: Consequences of emigration"

Giuseppe Sciortino, Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at MIM/Malmö University for 2015-2016, Professor at University of Trento

15 September, Malmö City Library, co-organised with Europa Direct The refugees tragedy and the crisis of the European Union

Joaquin Arango, Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at MIM/Malmö University for September-October 2016, Complutensa University, Madrid

3 November, Malmö City Library, co-organised with Europa Direct Is Immigration and Diversity Weakening the Welfare State?

Keith Banting, Professor, Political Studies, Queen's Research Chair in Public Policy at Queen's University (Canada) and Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare

Willy Brandt Public Lecture in co-operation with Europe Direct at Malmö City Library on 3 November 2016 with Keith Banting, MIM Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt

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Research Seminars at MIM

— The Migration Seminar 2016

For more than eight years, on Thursdays from 14.15 to 16.00, MIM has provided a common forum for migration researchers at Malmö University and beyond. The seminar venue is on the ninth floor of

Niagara.

4 February

Refugee resettlement to Japan: an investigation into the government's decision to launch a refugee resettlement programme

Naoko Hashimoto, PhD, University of Sussex Discussant: Brigitte Suter, MIM, Malmö University

The Migration Seminar “Refugee resettlement to Japan: an investigation into the government's decision to launch a refugee resettlement programme” on 4 February 2016 with Naoko Hashimoto,

PhD, University of Sussex (Photo: Merja Skaffari-Multala)

11 February

Being Highly Skilled and a Refugee: The Experiences of Non-European Physicians in Sweden

Katarina Mozetič, MA in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, GPS, Malmö University

18 February

Sustainable Marriages? Divorce Patterns of Binational Couples in Europe and North America

Nahikari Irastorza, PhD, Willy Brandt Research Fellow, MIM, Malmö University

3 March

Nation-building in Ukraine, Estonia and Georgia: Culture in/and Sports

Alexandra Yatsyk, Visiting researcher, Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Uppsala

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Practicing Abundance: Immigrants Adaptation and the Challenges of Consumption Martina Cvajner, Assistant Professor, University of Trento

7 April

Migration and Sexuality: Erotic Plasticity in the Settlement Process

11 April Monday Lunch seminar 12.00-13.00, Lounge room 9th floor Just Visiting? Social Solidarity in a Mobile World

Keith G. Banting, Professor, Queen’s University, Canada

The Migration Seminar “Just Visiting? Social Solidarity in a Mobile World”, 11 April with Keith G. Banting, Professor, Queen’s University (Photo: Merja Skaffari-Multala)

14 April

Onward migration among African Swedes: significance of social policies and personal experiences

Sadia Hassanen, PhD, University of Stockholm

21 April 14.15-16.00

The Folkhem in the Age of Migration: The Dynamic between Welfare Provision and Migration in Swedish Social Policy

Ov Cristian Norocel, DrSocSci, University of Helsinki Discussant: Christian Fernández, MIM, Malmö University

http://mah.se/english/News/News-2016/How-the-Sweden-Democrats-dont-fit-in---book-reveals-new-research/

27 April, at 15.15-17.00

Structural Strains in the International and European Refugee Regimes: a Long-Term View

12 May

Diplomatic Protection and Consular Assistance of Migrants in Public International Law

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Protest or issue-based voting? Populist radical right party-voter issue congruence in Europe

Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Associate Professor, Södertorn University Discussant: Henrik Emilsson, MIM, Malmö University

26 May

Political Déjà vu: symbolic transferability and political cultural reconstruction among Mexican migrants in New Zealand

Guillermo Merelo Alcocer, PhD Scholar, University of Auckland

2 June

Paneldiskussion - Migration, terroristattacker och yttrandefrihet – erfarenheter från fältet. Panelen: Mats Deland, forskare och historiker om bl a rasism vid Uppsala och Stockholms Universitet; Heidi Avellan, politisk chefredaktör på Sydsvenskan och Paul Lappalainen, statlig utredare, Det blågula glashuset: strukturell diskriminering i Sverige, svensk och amerikansk jurist, fd lokalpolitiker.

8 September

Introduction of Post-Doc project: Cultural competence among health care

professionals: Knowledge and skills needed for delivering a cultural competent care to improve health among refugees

Katarina Sjögren Forss, PhD, Post-Doc researcher, Faculty of Health and Society, Department of Care Science, Malmö University

22 September, Brown bag lunch seminar 12-13.30 Migration regimes: the four worlds of migration policy

Joaquin Arango, Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at MIM/Malmö University for September-October 2016, Complutense University, Madrid

The Migration Seminar “Migration regimes: the four worlds of migration policy” on 22 September 2016 with Joaquin Arango, MIM Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt for September-October

2016, Complutense University, Madrid (Photo: Merja Skaffari-Multala)

29 September (in Swedish)

Report presentation "Rasist? Inte jag. Om rasismer: En begreppsinventering?" for Forum för Levande Historia

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15 Political Studies and Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University

13 October

Australian multiculturalism: The Light on a hill?

Adam Ridley, PhD Candidate, Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, School of Medicine, Flinders University

20 October

Immigrant Integration through Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from Switzerland

Dr. Flavia Fossati, University of Lausanne and nccr-on the move, Rue de la Mouline 28, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

27 October

Moving the Mainstream: Radicalization of Political Language in the German PEGIDA-Movement

Andreas Önnerfors, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg

Discussant: Ane Kirkegaard, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University

10 November

Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies Keith Banting, Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at MIM/Malmö University for October-November 2016, Queen’s University, Canada

17 November

The pre or post national citizenship of stateless refugees: lived experiences from Denmark and Sweden

Jason Tucker, MIM Post-Doc researcher at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

1 December

Contextual determinants of refugee children´s victimization and fear of crime in Sweden

Anna-Karin Ivert, Post-Doc researcher, PhD, Department of Criminology, Malmö University

8 December

Solidarity without Borders

Martin Bak Jørgensen, Associate Professor, The Faculty of Humanities, Department of Culture and Global Studies, CoMID - Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity, Aalborg University

15 December

The Internationally Mobile Student In EU Policy: Constructing an Ideal?

Ane Kirkegaard, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University and the co-author, BA Katja Lund Thomsen

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16 Other seminars and meetings at MIM

21 April

Book release "Trust us" authored by Anders Hellström

4 October

Mini-Lecture for the opening of the IMER bachelor course by Keith Banting

7 October, Friday, at 10.15-12.00, Room NIC0E11, Niagara

Dissertation: Paper Planes: Labour Migration, Integration Policy and the State Henrik Emilsson, PhD

Malmö University’s First PhD in IMER/MUSA

Henrik Emilsson successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Paper planes: labour migration, integration policy and the state”. Henrik Emilsson is both the first to receive a PhD in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) and the first to graduate from the PhD program MUSA (Migration, Urbanisation and Societal Change). In the thesis Henrik investigates the consequences of the Swedish deregulation of labour immigration from 2008 and onwards and the alleged local turn in European integration policy.

November 17

Lecture to IMER master students by Keith Banting

November 18

Lecture to IMER bachelor students by Keith Banting

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Research projects at MIM

Support Platform for Migration and Health, MILSA 2.0

Funding: EU, The Asylum, Migration and Integration fund, AMIF (2016-09-01-2019-08-31)

Contact: Slobodan Zdravkovic, Malmö University

Participants: Katarina Carlzén, Elisabeth Mangrio, Peter Håkansson, Ragnar Westerling

Partners: MIM, Malmö University (project owner), The County Administrative Board, Region Skåne, Uppsala University, Lund University, City of Malmö, Skåne’s Municipality Union, the municipalities of Helsingborg, Eslöv and Landskrona, The Social Economy Network in Skåne / Sweden – NGO and Council of Sport Clubs in Malmö (MISO)

The aim of MILSA 2.0 is to contribute to regional and national knowledge, method and policy development through examining how health is affected by migration and establishment processes. This knowledge is applied in method development for effective integration. In relation to the establishment process, the health status of adults, families with children and young people are examined and the effects of an extended social orientation broadened to several social arenas linked to social capital, sense of cohesion and the ability to make use of information. MILSA creates a

research-based support and development platform for health promoting establishment in the job market in cooperation with research and practice. The project collaborates research and practice for a common development of knowledge about the target group's needs and practical application of knowledge-based establishment activities. The expected result is target group customized health-oriented establishment efforts that improve the conditions for a more effective integration on equal terms.

Nyanlända flyktingfamiljer i etableringsprocessen och deras upplevelse av hälsa/ Newly arrived refugee families in the resettlement process and the lived

experience of health- A qualitative study

Funding: : EU, The Asylum, Migration and Integration fund, AMIF (2016-09-01-2019-08-31)

Participants: Elisabeth Mangrio,Slobodan Zdravkovic and Elisabeth Carlson

Migration, in particular involuntary migration, is known to be a factor that causes mental stress. The situation that has surrounded the families during the flights have often contributed with its many stress factors. Earlier studies have shown that there are different factors related to how well newly immigrants establish themselves in the new country. These factors could be traumatic events and the effect on the physical and psychological wellbeing of migrating families and how these events have affected the family both physically and psychologically.

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18 The establishment process started in Sweden 2010 and is a process where newly arrived migrants with granted residence permits, get an establishment plan for the first year in Sweden. The aim of the establishment process is to offer support to facilitate a rapid entrance into the Swedish labor market. Health is an important factor for

integration and establishment to the labor market in Sweden, thereby exploring health conditions for newly arrived immigrants is of importance. The issues raised are important for not only the individual, but also on a community level.

Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the health among newly arrived refugee families that have residence permit and that are in the establishment process. Interviews will be held with families from the county of Scania and that are a part of the establishment process.

Museums as integrative arenas – new perspectives and methods of inclusion Funding: The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, AMIF (2016-2018) Participant: Christina Johansson, Malmö University

Within the framework for the project, methods are being developed for how museums can improve their representations of migration and in an active way through

collaboration with civil society, including third country nationals and other migrants in various activities.

The project plans to perform a pilot study with the target audience and the Regional Museum in Kristianstad. The aim is to develop methods for inclusion that are then integrated into the education and the educational material that the project will develop. The program will then be directed to people working in museums, cultural and voluntary sectors in Sweden and abroad. Research results in this area will also be compiled in a book project disseminated nationally and transnationally. The objective is that the project results will contribute to greater integration in society as well as guidance for national democracy and migration museum planned construction in Malmö.

In the context of the current influx of refugees and the changing political climate, there are plans for establishing a democracy- and migration museum in Sweden. Closely related to the national integration aim of strengthening the intercultural dialogue between the third-country nationals and the local society, this project aims at producing, testing and disseminating knowledge relevant to the improvement of the Swedish museums’ integration work. Special attention is given to the methods of collaboration between museums, civil society and migrants.

The project will involve refugees and reach out to a number of actors in the museum-, cultural- and civil society sector, by the means of a conference, publications, a course, and an educational material package.

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The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (NIEM)

Funding: The Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, AMIF (2016-2020) Participant: Pieter Bevelander, Sayaka Osanami Törngren and Henrik Emilsson MIM, Malmö University

Online information:

http://www.forintegration.eu/pl/about-the-project

https://www.facebook.com/allinforintegration/

https://twitter.com/forintegration

The National Integration Evaluation Mechanism (NIEM) is a six-year-long

transnational project which aims to prepare key actors in the integration field in 15 EU Member States to better face the current challenges and improve the integration outcomes of beneficiaries of international protection. Conflict situations tend to last longer and it takes currently on average 17 years, before refugees fleeing civil wars may eventually have a chance to return to their home country. Hence, the long-term integration of newly arrived beneficiaries of international protection is without alternative and presents an immediate challenge for European societies.

NIEM will establish a mechanism for a biennial, comprehensive evaluation of the integration of beneficiaries of international protection to provide evidence on gaps in integration standards, identify promising practices and evaluate the effects of

legislative and policy changes.

NIEM is developed against the background of the changing legal environment on international protection both at national and European levels, induced by the high numbers of new arrivals in the recent years. The project endeavours to provide evidence on some of the most burning discussions concerning these changes: Are EU standards on integration of beneficiaries of international protection well

implemented? How are they impacting integration policies? Are policies aimed at beneficiaries of international protection having an impact on successful integration? What are the challenges and good practices, and which policy gaps need to be addressed?

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20 Flyktingbarns erfarenheter och upplevelser av utsatthet och otrygghet i Sverige/ Contextual determinants of refugee children´s victimization and fear of crime in Sweden.

Funding: in the frames of the two-year post-doctoral position at Faculty of Health and Society, research program at MIM, Malmö University (2016-2018)

Participant: Anna-Karin Ivert

In 2015 nearly 163 000 people applied for asylum in Sweden, more than 40 percent of them were children. Even though the number of asylum seekers decreased

significantly in 2016 there are still many children living in more or less temporary accommodation for refugees. Since these accommodations are the home for the children living there, in some cases for a long time, it is important that these places are safe and secure. However, there have been reports of incidents, both conflict and violence from within these accommodations, as well as of violent attacks directed at refugee accommodations by outsiders, which can make children feel unsafe. Based on this it is important to extend knowledge on refugee children’s experiences of

victimization (both direct and indirect) and fear of victimization. Victimization and fear of crime might have direct negative consequences for children’s everyday life and health as well as more long term consequences on their development. Therefore, the objective of this project is to investigate how the social context (at the

accommodation and in the surrounding neighbourhood) influences victimization and fear of crime among refugee children, as well as the consequences of fear and victimization on their well-being and everyday life.

Daily encounters at the border: reception in the EU and irregular migrants arriving by sea

Funding: COFAS, Marie Curie Forte Outgoing International Fellowship (2016-2019) Contact person: Daniela DeBono, Malmö University

Alongside the increase in EU border control, there are efforts by the European Union (EU) and its Member States to mainstream human rights principles in external border control and in the construction of fair asylum systems. The safeguarding of human rights is important for migrants. The responsibility for ensuring that the dignity and human rights of the migrants are safeguarded is recognised by the EU and its Member States. This accounts for the great investment in the mainstreaming of human rights principles in all areas of border activity. Reception activity is officially regulated by four sets of policies and procedures, which are usually conducted within a few days or weeks. These are rescue at sea, immigration, reception/detention and asylum

procedures. They are policies that involve a vast range of stakeholders and, as such, the complex interactions between their activities need to be carefully managed in order for the whole reception system to function

The Social Life of the Reception Regime from the point of view of Irregular Migrants

Funding: FORTE/FOIP Outgoing International Postdoc fellowship (2016-2019) Contact person: Daniela DeBono

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21 Global Political Studies, Malmo University, Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and European University Institute. Florence Partner: Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Cetnre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence

Alongside the increase in EU border control, there are efforts by the European Union (EU) and its Member States to mainstream human rights principles in external border control and in the construction of fair asylum systems. First reception activity is regulated by four sets of policies and procedures, which are usually conducted within a few days or weeks - rescue at sea, immigration, reception/detention and asylum procedures. Research has so far focused on the analysis of policy and institutions, but not so much on what happens on the ground. This project will contribute to these efforts by examining the first reception of irregular maritime migrants in Italy, Malta and Greece.

Sustainable Marriages? Divorce Patterns of Binational Couples in Europe and North America

Funding: Guest Professor Grant, City of Malmö (2016-2019) Participant: Nahikari Irastorza, Malmö University

This project analyzes the marital dissolution of binational couples (i.e. couples comprised of immigrants and natives) in countries with traditionally distinct

integration models: Canada, the United States and France. Previous studies appeal to cultural differences to explain the higher divorce rates of binational couples but they omit the potential effect of migration or that of environmental factors such as

immigration policies and attitudes towards migration and intermarriage. In order to test a model that includes all these factors, an identical online survey was conducted in the cited countries. The concepts “binational couples” and “culture” were

disentangled into specific types of couples and variables. While being involved in a binational marriage was not found to be a significant predictor of divorce, being involved in one where both partners are foreign-born decreases the risk of divorce. Religion, family values and families’ perception of a relationship are also

significantly related to marital stability INFORM

Funding: EU, Asylum, migration and integration fund, AMIF (2016-2018) Participant: Ioana Bunescu, Malmö University

Website: http://www.inform-asylum.eu/

The project is funded by the coordinated by Middlesex University in London and includes partners in 5 other EU countries. The project on access to legal and procedural information for asylum seekers aims to identify the practices in these countries, gather them in national reports and also in a comparative report that will serve as a base for improving the quality of asylum decisions and reducing asylum appeals in the EU.

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22 Europe’s Stateless Refugees: Navigating the Pre or Post National Space of

Indefinite Statelessness in Sweden and Denmark

Funding: in the frames of the two-year post-doctoral position at GPS, Malmö University (2016-2018)

Participant: Jason Tucker, Malmö University

The research project investigates a largely overlooked group of refugees in Europe, those who are stateless. To be stateless is to not be considered as a citizen by any state. While a refugee faces a temporary lack of protection from their State, the

stateless person permanently lacks this protection. While not all refugees are stateless, a considerable number globally are. With the majority of refugees entering Europe originating from states with significant stateless populations, discriminatory nationality laws or statelessness which has arisen from state succession, European states, as well as regional and international organisations are having to increasingly deal with the poorly understood multifaceted relationship between statelessness and forced migration.

Doing Family Across Borders: A Comparative Study of Work, Family and Welfare Strategies among Polish Migrants in Norway, Sweden, and the UK

Funding: Norges forskningsråd (2016-2017) Participant: SIK Stavanger

This project seeks to answer the main research question: how transnational family considerations, combined with labor market conjuncture and migrants' rights to welfare provision in the host country, shape migrant workers' relation to work and welfare? In order to answer this research question from a comparative perspective the project will focus on two groups of Polish migrant workers, living alone or reunited with the family in the host country, in three different welfare and labor market contexts (Norway, Sweden and the UK). The study will explain why some migrant workers fare relatively better at the host country's labor market, while others are more prone to rely on social welfare provision. The project will in particular look at

migrants' actual and planned use of welfare provision, tax-reduction strategies, and their plans regarding family reunification, re-emigration or eventual retirement in the host country. The project will use mixed methods. At the beginning, data from available databases will be analyzed (WP1). Further, a tailor-made online survey tool will be used to generate data missing in existing databases (WP2).

The respondents will be recruited onboard international flights between Poland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Finally, the quantitative analyses will be

complemented by qualitative analyses of semi-structured interviews with Polish migrant workers collected in Norway, Sweden, and the UK (WP3). A smooth implementation of the project will be ensured by including four overseas research grants between the Project Owner and the two international partners in Sweden and the UK. Apart from its high scientific value, the project will have an explicit practical value for Norwegian and international stakeholders dealing with the issues concerned in this study. Knowledge produced by the project can be used policy formulation by relevant national organizations, including ministries, tax authorities, labor and welfare organizations.

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23 Skilled migration to globalising China: An ethnographic study on migrants'

integration /Arbetskraftsinvandring till Kina: en etnografisk studie om högutbildade migranters integration

Funding: FORTE/FOIP Outgoing International Postdoc fellowship COFAS 2, Outgoing International Postdoc Fellowship (2015–2017)

Participant: Brigitte Suter

Partner: Fudan University, Shanghai

China attracts an increasing number of skilled European migrants into its cities, and will continue to do so in the coming decade. This project is set to study the migration projects of skilled European migrants in Shanghai’s emerging globalising economy, a topic that still remains underexplored in migration-related research (that is dominated by and large by a focus on unskilled, non-Western migrants). While the main focus is on Swedish and Swiss nationals, narrated accounts of African and East Asian skilled migrants will also be included in order to provide a more heterogeneous and therefore more comprehensive account. Material gathered through ethnographic fieldwork among individual migrants, their families as well as key network nodes will be analysed from a gender and intersectional perspective and with theories of mobility, social networks, and transnational urbanism. The project is grounded in migration studies, but actively seeks to link to urban studies and political economy. The design of this multidisciplinary study will allow for important contributions to the body of knowledge of the incorporation of skilled migration into urban globalised economies in China.

Governing and experiencing Citizenship in Multicultural Scandinavia (GOVCIT) Funding: Peace Research Institute OSLO (PRIO) (2015-2018)

Participant: Pieter Bevelander

What are the relationships between policies and laws on citizenship and experiences of belonging, recognition and sense of community? The Governing and Experiencing Citizenship in Multicultural Scandinavia (GOVCIT) project will shed new light on relationships between citizenship and integration. We do this through studying top-down policies and bottom-up lived experiences. The Scandinavian countries have undergone major cultural and social changes due to migration. Considering the homogeneity of the region, the discrepancy in current citizenship regulation is remarkable. Requirements for citizenship acquisition differ: Norway is positioned in between liberal Sweden and restrictive Denmark. But both Sweden and Denmark permit dual citizenship, while Norway does not. Citizenship in Scandinavia has become eroded, as most substantial rights are attached to permanent residency, not to citizenship. Social cohesion at community level is an explicit aim for citizenship policy. These macro-level paradoxes inform our study. We will learn more about these through document analysis and interviews with civil servants. At the individual level we recognize that identity cannot be legislated. Lived experiences are affected not by the letter of the law, but by practices, interpretations and negotiations. We are interested in the experiences of immigrants and descendants, as citizens or prospective citizens, which we will learn about through a Scandinavian survey. In Norway we also use ethnographic methods to capture lived experiences of people living in a diverse society. We are interested in the lived experiences of people both with and

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integration are key to ongoing public debates, to which the GOVICT project will contribute through a focus on the interface of governing and experiencing citizenship. The project is funded by the VAM programme of the Research Council of Norway (Welfare, Working Life and Migration).

Lita på oss. Fo-uppdrag. Migration, political parties and media in the Nordic countries.

Funding: Regeringskansliet/Delmi (2015-2016) Participant: Anders Hellström

This project studies similarities and differences in the societal responses to parties critical of immigration in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The first part of the study compares how these parties and their migration policies were depicted on the editorial pages of the major daily newspapers in the respective countries over a number of years. How do the established media choose to describe and handle the parties? In order to evaluate the treatment of the parties, however, it is not enough to study the established media and daily press. The successes of the Sweden Democrats (SD) among voters in Sweden over the last decade, for example, cannot then be explained. The second part of the study therefore studies how SD is described in alternative public arenas, namely on the Internet.

Invandrarföretagande och mentorskap / Immigrant entrepreneurship Funding: LU/Fam Kamprads stiftelse (2015–2017)

Participant: Gabriela Anderson

This project investigates deeper knowledge about Somali company owners and their integration process into different environments, such as in Sweden and in the UK. The motivation for this project is that Somali-born company owners in working age (16– 64 years) are 9% in Minnesota, 0.7% in Sweden, and many Somalis have moved to the UK during the last years to start companies. We look at their life stories in different environments, how they manage integrate in the societies, different reasons for starting and not starting companies, failures and successes.

Work-life balance and well-being among highly skilled migrants within the health sector in Agder

Funding: Forprosjekt – RFFAGDER, (2015-2016) Placed at: Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway

Participants: Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö University), Eugene Guribye (Agderforskning) and Knut Hidle (Agderforskning)

Demographic challenges related to an aging population and migration, has led to an increase in expenditure in the health sector. In Norway, projections suggest a shortfall of up until 52,000 health workers in 2030. Hence, there is an increasing need to recruit health care personnel from the global labour market. The situation raises issues

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Exploring integration as emplaced practice Funding: Forprosjekt – RFFAGDER, (2015-2016)

Placed at: Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway (based on a partnership involving Agderforskning, The University of Agder, the University of Malmö and the

municipality of Lindesnes)

Participants: Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö University), May-Linda Magnussen (responsible researcher, Agderforskning), Hege Wallevik and Hanne Sortevik Haaland (Agder University)

The main goals of this project are to improve integration processes involving labour, refugee and family migrants in a local context and to build a foundation for a

comprehensive future project. The pilot-study sets to explore integration as emplaced practice, using the municipality of Lindesnes as a case. The study focuses on local forms of and conditions of integration by exploring how, where and why the inhabitants do or do not engage in common activities with other people in the

municipality and how they perceive local contacts, communication and commonalities across differences of origin. In doing so, the study will offer new knowledge

pertaining to immigration that can contribute to crucial social change in the Agder region and beyond on an urgent matter.

BASED - BaltischeStandards für die Erstintegration junger qualifizierter

Drittstaatsangehöriger / Standardised Procedures for Promotion and Integration of Young Qualified Immigrants from Third-Countries in the Baltic Sea Region Funding: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund

(AMIF), German Federal Office for Refugees and Migration (2015-18)

Contact: Eckart Müller-Bachmann, Christliches

Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands, gemeinnütziger e.V. (CJD), Kiel

Participants: Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö University) represents MIM as cooperation partner

The project aims at developing standardised procedures for promoting and integrating young qualified immigrants in the Baltic Sea Region based on the target group’s needs. In order to achieve this aim, the project seeks to expand and intensify networks and cooperation between stakeholders of integration in the Baltic Sea Region with regard to

orientation, qualification and employment perspectives for

BASED research project meeting on 23 November 2016 with Hedvig Obenius, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Eckart Müller-Bachmann, Svenja Heinrich and Pieter Bevelander (Photo: Beint Beintsen 23 November 2016)

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structures of welcome-ing and integrating young qualified immigrants in the Baltic Sea Region, target groups of the project are not only young and qualified migrants, but also stakeholders in the field of integration in the Baltic rim. Both groups will be involved in the project.

Rasism och främlingsfientlighet

Funding: Forum för levande historia (2015–2016) Participants: Anders Hellström

The overall aim is to ensure the Swedish authorities have access to information on how Swedish research in the last decades views the relationship between "racism" and "xenophobia" as a phenomenon in general and, more specifically, as excluding and subordinating phenomena such as anti-Semitism, Afrophobia, antiziganism and Islamophobia.

Youth mobility: Maximising opportunities for individuals, labour markets and regions in Europe

Funding: EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under the Grant Agreement No. 649491 (2015-03-01 - 2018-02-28)

Participants: Henrik Emilsson and Pieter Bevelander (Malmö University)

YMOBILITY develops a comprehensive research programme which addresses the following issues: (i) identifying, and quantifying, the main types of international youth mobility in the EU, and their key characteristics; (ii) understanding what determines which individuals do and which do not participate in international

mobility as personal and professional development strategies: their motives, migration channels and information sources; (iii) analysing the individual outcomes in terms of both employability and careers and non-economic terms; (iv) analysing the territorial outcomes for the regions of both origin and destination, in economic, demographic and cultural terms; (v) differentiating between short-term and long-term outcomes, taking into account return migration and future intentions to migrate; (vi) identifying implications for policies in migration but also of education, the economy and housing.

The research will utilise existing secondary data for the whole of the EU, but will mainly rely on primary quantitative data (large-scale surveys) and qualitative data (interviews). The study will focus on 9 countries representing different contexts for youth mobility: Romania, Slovakia and Latvia; the UK and Sweden; Germany, Italy, Ireland and Spain. The policy analysis will be informed by interviews undertaken with key informants. Experimental methods will be used to assess how individuals will respond to different scenarios of future economic and social change.

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27 Etniska relationer i socialt arbete. En studie av styrdokument, undervisning och studenterfarenheter inom socionomutbildningen / Ethnic relations in social work. A study of steering documents, teaching and student experiences in Swedish social work education

Funding: Vetenskapsrådet (2014-2016)

Participants: Erica Righard, Linda Lill, Norma Montesino, Lunds universitet, Eva Wikström Umeå universitet, Helene Jacobson Pettersson Linneuniversitetet

The project brings together research in educational science with social work and IMER research. Ethnic relations is a disputed area, not least in the educational sphere. The educational science perspective on ethnic relations in social work is a long established field internationally. With this study we want to contribute to knowledge in this area from a Swedish context. We also want to help to bring international research at Swedish universities and Sweden-specific perspectives in the international debate on the area.

Undocumented children’s rights claims. A multidisciplinary project on agency and contradictions between different levels of regulations and practice that reveals undocumented children‘s human rights.

Funding: Swedish Research Council (2013-2016) Contact person: Anna Lundberg

Co-workers: Jacob Lind, Mikael Spång and Michael Strange Webpage: http://blogg.mah.se/undocumentedmigrants

This four-year project highlights undocumented migrant children’s claims to be right holders focusing on everyday experiences and agency. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s observation that rights can be realised only in a political community and Jacque Rancière’s theory that politics of human rights must be rooted in the practices of rights-holders they the project has a strong agency perspective that asks how children themselves claim and utilize rights. We also investigate contradictions between different levels of regulation regarding undocumented children’s human rights. To reveal how children subjectively experience life as undocumented and negotiate agency in this situation, a child-centred participative research design is adopted. Activities and interviews will be conducted in the city of Manchester, UK and

Malmö, Sweden. We also investigate international and national regulations in the area as well as policy at city level regarding undocumented children’s rights.

The research will provide knowledge about the situation of undocumented migrant children from the point of human rights. This is of central importance especially with regard to the children since they as under-age and non-citizens lack the traditional opportunities for political action. The project will also provide theoretically important insights of the contested meaning of human rights at different levels. Furthermore, a strong aim is to create conditions for a more tempered public debate in Sweden around highly politicised subjects.

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Transnational Migration

Funding: in the frames of the Willy Brandt PhD candidate at MIM (2013-2018) Participant: Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy, Doctoral student

The project will explore how the Bolivian experience of migration to Spain reflects the connections between our globalized world with its hegemonic discourse of ‘development’ and changes in intra- and extrafamilial power relations in Bolivian transnational families.

Focus is especially on the experiences of migrant women and how the migration project, as a strategy for accumulation of economic capital, might also supply the Bolivian (woman) migrant worker with other forms of capital (social, cultural, symbolic) and in effect alter gendered power relations on family and/or community level. Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy will also consider the catalytic impact the current economic crisis might have in producing these alterations. She will conduct

ethnographic fieldwork in both Spain and Bolivia, whilst relying on surveys in order to obtain more quantitative data.

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Publications 2016

MIM publications

MIM publications are available online at Malmö University Electronic Press (MUEP), www.mah.se/muep. Hard copies can be ordered from Holmbergs, Malmö,

http://www.websh op.holmbergs.com/mah/.

Books and Edited volumes

Hellström, Anders. 2016. Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties. New York: Berghahn Books. “Trust Us” (Berghahn Books) is the title of Anders Hellström’s new book on the rise of nationalist populist parties in Scandinavia. Hellström, an expert on populism in the Nordic countries, offers an in-depth and systematic comparison of the Norwegian Progress Party, the Danish People’s Party and the Sweden Democrats, and their respective struggles to earn the nation’s trust.

Conferences and Workshops attended 2016

Keith Banting

Paper, “Just Visiting: The Weakening of Social Protection in a Mobile World”, Conference on Migration and European Welfare States, Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business, 19-21 October 2016

Paper, “The Strains of Commitment”, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, Copenhagen, 12 October 2016

Paper, “Framing the New Inequality: the Politics of Redistribution in Canada”, University of Bremen 26 October 2016

Paper, “Reconsidering Canada: Immigrants, Aboriginals and Support fort Redistribution”, WZB Berlin, 27 October 2016

Paper, “Framing the New Inequality: the Politics of Redistribution in Canada”, Institutet för Framtidsstudier and Katalys, Stockholm, 7 November 2016

Paper, “Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Welfare State”, University of Neuchâtel, 24-25 November 2016

Pieter Bevelander

Paper, “The economic integration of refugees in Sweden”, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 20 January 2016

Panel member of seminar on “The Economic integration of refugees in Europe”, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 29 February 2016

Key note speech, “Economic integration of refugees in Sweden, what can Europe learn!”, European Parliament, Brussels, 1 March 2016

Paper, “How far does the Apple fall from the tree, voting behavior by first and second generation immigrants in Sweden”, Annual CES conference, Philadelphia, 14-16 April 2016

Key note speech, “Typologies of Migration: An overview of our knowledge of Migration”, “Museums in Times of Migration and Mobility" Conference, Malmö University, 25-26 April 2016

Key note speech, “The Employment integration of Refugees in Sweden and Canada”, KEFU days, Lund, 2 May 2016

Paper, “How far does the Apple fall from the tree, voting behavior by first and second generation immigrants in Sweden”, Annual IMISCOE conference, Prague, 29 June – 1 July 2016

Paper, “Economic Integration of Immigrants to Sweden: Intermarriage Premium or Selection?”, 13th Annual IMISCOE Conference “Migration and Development”, Prague, 30 June-2 July 2016

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36 Key note speech,“Refugee Labor market Integration in Sweden and Canada”,

“Nyköpingsdagar”, Nyköping, 18-19 August 2016

Key note and commenting individual papers, NCCR summer school on “Discrimination”, Neuchatel, 21-23 August 2016

Guest lecture “Immigrant Labor Market integration”, Stavanger Högskola, 6 September 2016

Paper, “Syrian migration and integration in Sweden”, Annual Metropolis Conference, Nagoya, 17-21 October 2016

Paper, “Refugee labour market integration in Sweden”, Annual Metropolis Conference, Nagoya, 17-21 October 2016

Henrik Emilsson

Paper, “New Approaches to Facilitating Refugee Integration in Sweden: A Case Study”, 16th plenary meeting at the Transatlantic Council on Migration, Migration Policy Institute, Toronto, 27-28 June 2016

Christian Fernández

Paper, “PK, yttrandefrihet och tolerans – en problemformulering”, SWEPSA, Visby 19 October 2016

Paper, “The Politics of Citizenship Education in Denmark and Sweden” together with Kristian Jensen, CES, Philadelphia 15 April 2016

Paper, “Nationhood and Scandinavian Naturalization Politics; Varieties of the Civic Turn” together with Grete Brochmann and Kristian Jensen, CES, Philadelphia 15 April 2016

Björn Fryklund

Paper, “Populism- changes over time and space- in the Nordic countries from 1965-2015. The Swedish case as an ideal type or comparative yardstick for the development of populism in the other Nordic countries”, Populism as Movement and Rhetoric Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 16-19 March 2016

Anders Hellström

Research initiative IMISCOE: Nationalist Populism together with Martin Bak Jørgensen

Chair, paper presentation, panel: “Public opinion and (media) representations of ‘the other’” together with Martin Bak Jørgensen, 13th Annual IMISCOE conference, Prague, 30 June-2 July 2016

Ingrid Jerve Ramsøy

Paper, “Care Chains, Facultades, and the Violence of the Mundane: Global

Connections in the Everyday”, Session 5221:Geographies of the Everyday: Embodied Experiences of Othering and Violence, AAG San Francisco, April 2, 201

MIM Academic Record 2016

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MIM Academic Record 2016

Contents

About MIM

MIM Staff 2016

MIM Board 2016

Guest Professorship in Memory of Willy Brandt

Conferences, Workshops and PhD Courses organised by MIM 2016

Public lectures (co-)organised by MIM 2016

Research Seminars at MIM

— The Migration Seminar 2016

Research projects at MIM

Publications 2016

Conferences and Workshops attended 2016