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Employer logics in the low-wage sector and their influences on refugees’ labor market entry and sustainable employment This study investigates the role of employers in facilitating refugees’ entry into the labour market and their prospects for sustainable employment within the low-wage sector. It does so through th...

What shapes refugees’ access to low-wage jobs?
A new study from the University of Gothenburg shows how three employer hiring logics—efficiency, community engagement, and diversity—shape who gets hired and who remains in precarious work.
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Authoritarian populist parties use visual strategies to normalize fear Authoritarian populist parties in Europe use visual and platform-specific strategies on social media to portray migrants and other groups as security threats. By combining strong visual imagery with l...

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Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland This article focuses on the Swedish and Finnish implementation of the European Union’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), activated by the EU after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 202...

Ukrainians granted temporary protection in Sweden and Finland face different conditions – but in both countries there is no clear pathway to permanent security. A new study shows that the protection is, in practice, strictly temporary.
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The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School in Migration and Integration The aim of this 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 wh...

PhD course calls for Swedish Research Council Graduate School in Migration & Integration
Applications now open for:
• Reproductive Racial Capitalism - deadline 15 March
• Far-Right Publics & Anti-Migrant Mobilisation - deadline 1 April #MigrationStudies #PhDCall #IMISCOE
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Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations This book offers novel conceptualizations of the complexities of child refugees and young migrants worldwide and the impact of national policies on them.

📘Rethinking Childhoods and Migrations (Palgrave), edited by Live Stretmo & Kerstin von Brömssen. Multidisciplinary perspectives on children’s & young people’s experiences of migration, with strong contributions from the Global South and a focus on education rights.
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Researchers followed refugees’ path into work over seven years Integration into the Swedish labour market is often a long and complex process. A new study shows that it is in human encounters that crucial steps are taken. Mentors and immediate managers, as well a...

🤝Integration into the Swedish labour market is often a long and complex process. A new study shows that it is in human encounters that crucial steps are taken.

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GDP and climate drive global migration to Nordic nations A country’s economic condition and climate baseline shape its attractiveness as a migration destination, a new study finds. Migration and climate data from 160 countries over 40 years project Finland ...

GDP and climate drive global migration to Nordic nations. A country’s economic condition and climate baseline shape its attractiveness as a migration destination, a new study finds.

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Governing Diversity at the Frontline: The Dual Logics of Cultural Sensitivity and Assimilation in Sweden This article investigates how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in Sweden manage cross-cultural challenges in their everyday interactions with migrants. While Swedish integration policy promotes both re...

Governing Diversity at the Frontline: The Dual Logics of Cultural Sensitivity and Assimilation in Sweden

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🎓 New policy brief shows how highly educated migrants in Sweden end up in low-wage jobs due to regulations and employer dependence. 📘 Read more: www.gu.se/sites/defaul...
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Another new CGM Policy Brief📘 Spehar, Andrea (2025). "Governance Through Uncertainty: Implications for Refugee Labour Market Integration."

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New CGM Policy Brief!

Elgenius, Gabriella (2025). “Civil Society’s Role in Promoting Integration in Superdiverse Neighbourhoods Facing Socioeconomic Challenges in Sweden.”

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The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Towards a Long-Term Sustainable European Migration Policy? From the late 1990s onward, the European Union has been busy developing a common asylum policy. The Common European Asylum System (CEAS), which first came to serve as the Union’s primary framewo...

New chapter by Andrea Spehar out now via Springer 📘:
"The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum"
🧭 Tackles whether the EU's new policy can really deliver a sustainable, unified migration approach.
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Is residential segregation driven by migrant preferences or host community bias?

Akbiyik, Ahmet and Ferree, Karen E. and Kao, Kristen, Preferences for Segregation? A Study of Migrants and Hosts in Adana, Turkey (September 16, 2024).
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State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg In the wake of policies that facilitate access to the formal labour market, refugees encounter skills devaluation, precarious employment and exploitation. Scholarship on the political economy of re...

📢 Excited to share a new publication in Review of International Political Economy by Alexander Jung and Andrea Spehar:

"State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg"

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Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets | Nordic Journal of Migration Research

📢 New Publication from the University of Gothenburg on "Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets."🏡💼 By Urban Susanne, Holmqvist Emma & Omanović Vedran. Published in the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.

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CGM Policy Briefs In 2025, CGM launches its own Policy Brief series. The purpose is to highlight research at the University of Gothenburg with high societal relevance and present it in an accessible way. Through our po...

📢 Exciting news from CGM! 📢 We’re launching our own Policy Brief series! 🎉📄 Our first brief explores insights from Newly Arrived Migrants’ Experiences of Encounters with Frontline Bureaucrats.
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