Migration and racism
The links between increasing migration and political conflicts, violence and military conflicts pose new societal challenges and raise issues relating to the education system. Migration, the labour market and regional disparities are other salient issues. Further study is needed to strengthen this field, particularly practice and policy-related research on political, social, economic, cultural and legal aspects of migration.
Uppsala University engages in successful research on integration and the labour market, at Uppsala Immigration Lab, for example. There is also extensive research on migration and racism, notably through the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) and in connection with the unique linguistic research conducted at the University. This particularly applies to minority and immigrant languages.
Examples of ongoing research
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Research centres, networks and environments
Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR)
Understanding the growth of racism in Sweden today requires cooperation between researchers in different disciplines. That is the insight behind the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism at Uppsala University. The centre coordinates broad, methodologically open, multidisciplinary research on racism.
Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR)
Hugo Valentin Centre
The Hugo Valentin Centre is an interdisciplinary centre at the Department of History focusing mainly on research and education in two areas: the study of cultural, social and political phenomena and processes of change related to the ethnic dimension in human life, and studies of the Holocaust and genocide. These areas include minority studies, multilingualism, ethnic relations, Balkan studies, Holocaust history, the study of genocide and similar crimes, and the effects of violence on individuals and society.
Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL)
Research at Uppsala Immigration Lab aims to answer vital questions of immigration and the world of work, such as the relationship between the needs and skills of the labour market and workers, structural transformation and relocation, and socioeconomic dimensions of integration.
Gothenburg/Lund/Uppsala Migration Law Network (GLUMIN)
A research network run by the law faculties at the University of Gothenburg, Lund University and Uppsala University. The aim of the network is to develop migration law and migration law research in Sweden. The research network includes researchers from most of the country’s universities and colleges.
Gothenburg/Lund/Uppsala Migration Law Network (GLUMIN)
Migration as a Legal and Political Process
This network brings together Uppsala University researchers in fields including law, history, philosophy, social sciences and theology who approach legal and political dimensions of migration in various ways. The network seeks to contribute to increased collaboration with non-academic actors (such as civil society organisations and authorities) to enable a more evidence-based debate on migration than currently exists. Traditional migration research has often started out from the notion of migration as movement across borders. The network also aims to study migration as movement in time.
Migration as a Legal and Political Process
Studies on Education, Migration and Segregation (EMS)
Ethnic and socioeconomic segregation has increased in Sweden, in terms of both housing and education. The negative effects of these two segregation processes have primarily been to the disadvantage of socially and economically vulnerable groups. This network brings together researchers from educational and cultural sociology, housing and urban research, and human geography to study social, spatial and societal effects related to education, migration and segregation.
Research network Studies on Education, Migration and Segregation (EMS)
Migration law research environment
The Department of Law provides a research environment that consists of several networks in the field of migration research. This research environment brings together researchers in law, history, philosophy, social sciences and theology at Uppsala University and aims to develop research in areas including migration as a movement, geographically and over time.
Migration law research environment
Research programme Dilemmas of Diversity: Ethnic Integration and Segregation in the City
The Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) has a long tradition of interdisciplinary research on migration and ethnic relations, with a focus on housing and urban issues. Some important research areas are: housing segregation and integration; settlement policy; strategies for diversification and socially mixed housing; urban governance; area-based political measures; neighbourhood effects; ethnic associations and political participation; and theoretical and conceptual development.
Research programme Dilemmas of Diversity: Ethnic Integration and Segregation in the City