REMESO NEWSLETTER March 2021

Fri Mar 12 18:16:49 CET 2021

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REMESO NEWSLETTER
March 2021

(Click on some headlines links for more info on our webb.)
Most of the text in this newsletter is in English, but some pieces of information are in Swedish

New professor, brings new perspectives on migration
[En bild som visar person, vägg, inomhus  Automatiskt genererad beskrivning]This winter REMESO welcomes a new Professor to the team. Claudia Tazreiter has not physically arrived yet, but is already a member of the Faculty and well known among our students.

Claudias research extends to the fields of sociology, social theory, race, ethnicity, migration and gender. She utilises ethnographic, visual, qualitative and mixed methods to reveal the impacts of forced and irregular migration on human rights culture, the role of civil society in social change, and gender in migration. A number of her recent projects have focused on the experiences of migrants, refugees and ‘illegalised migrants’ in the Asia Pacific region. Other work has focused on Australia as a colonial-settler society and as the centre of a carceral archipelago. My work also engages with European, North American and Middle East contexts.

She is already engaged in teaching in the MA program Ethnic and Migration Studies, a program for which she will become the Program Director during this year.

Claudia have held visiting appointments at the Institute for Political Science, University Vienna (2018), Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University New York CUNY (2014) and the Centre for International Studies (CERI) Science Po (2011) and I am a fellow at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University Osnabrück.

Some of Claudia´s recent publications:

Tazreiter, C & Weber, L (2021, accepted, in press) (eds) Handbook on Migration and Global Justice, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Boochani, B, Tazreiter, C & Tofighian, O (2021) ‘The multiple faces of the people smuggler’ in SMUGGLED: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia, eds. R. Balint and J. Kalman, New South Press.
Tazreiter, C & Tofighian, O with Boochani, Behrouz (2021, accepted, in press) ‘Spectres of subjugation/inter-subjugation/resubjugation of people seeking asylum: the kyriarchal system in Australia’s necropoleis’, in Regulating Refugee Protection through Social Welfare Law, Policy and Praxis, ed. P Billings, Routledge, London.
Tazreiter, C (2021) ‘Race, migration and visual culture. The activist artist challenging the ever-present colonial imagination’ in B Miyamoto & M Ruiz, Art & Migration, Manchester University Press.
Tazreiter, C & Burridge, A (2021, forthcoming) ‘Temporary migration - the Australia model’, International Migration, Guest edited by A Tiandafyllidou – invited submission.
Tazreiter, C (2021) ‘The haunting presence of life and the afterlife of violence: transgressive borders, disruptive politics and the ghosts of violent pasts’, Geopolitics, guest edited by U Ozguc and A Burridge.
Tazreiter, C (2020) ‘Emotions, borders and the role of visual culture in refugee arrivals’, Special issue of Critical Criminology, an International Journal 2(28), eds. S Turnbull, M Bhatia and G Lousley.

New book: A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy<https://www.agendapub.com/books/53/a-modern-migration-theory>
Peo Hansen, professor at REMESO, offers an alternative way of understanding macroeconomics in relation to migration and welfare in his new book.

“Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive asylum policies. Hansen shows that this consensual cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic conception of the orthodox “sound finance” doctrine prevalent in migration research and policy. By examining migration through the macro-economic lens offered by modern monetary theory, Hansen is able to demonstrate sound finance’s detrimental impact on migration policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate on migration in the European Union.”

See more here<https://www.agendapub.com/books/53/a-modern-migration-theory>

Educational aspirations and equality
[En bild som visar person, person, utomhus, tittar  Automatiskt genererad beskrivning][cid:image017.jpg at 01D7176B.D8D73140]In the fall, Olav Nygård attained his doctorate degree with a dissertation that looks at young childrens educational aspirations.
The dissertation, Educational Aspirations and Attainments: How resources relate to outcomes for children of immigrants in
disadvantaged Swedish schools, consists of four separate but connected inverstigations. The studies look at factors such
as educational aspiration prior to migration, social capital from families, current school environment and support as well as
labour market situation of migrant families. Nygårds research emphasise how varying educational aspiration is linked to an
interplay between resources lost, retained, and created in and after migration, but also suggest that these resources are often insufficient to compensate for disadvantages in the institutions of education and the labour market.

Read more about Olav´s dissertation (DIVA)<http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-169376>

”Unga med migrationsbakgrund vill studera vidare – men ojämlikhet försvårar”<https://liu.se/nyhet/hoga-utbildningsambitioner-hos-unga-med-migrationsbakgrund>

REMESO Open Seminars in the<https://liu.se/en/article/remeso-seminarier> Spring

Open seminars, on zoom. For links to meeting, contact Haqqi or Paula:   haqqi.bahram at liu.se<mailto:haqqi.bahram at liu.se>,  paula.mahlck at liu.se<mailto:paula.mahlck at liu.se>

17/3   The geopolitics of climate change
Björn-Ola Linnér, Professor, Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, LiU
7/4    Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Martin Joormann, Postdoc and Dalia Abdelhady, Associate Professor, Lund University
21/4   The geopolitics of borders in territorial, historical and imagined forms. How does migration manifest as ‘crisis’ rather than social transformation?
Claudia Tazreiter, Professor, REMESO, LiU
28/4   Refugees from Syria/host community relations in Sweden
Jason Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Nahikari Irastorza, Research Fellow, Malmö University
5/5   The impact of migrant background on women’s encounter with health care and other public institutions
Minoo Alinia, Associate Professor, Uppsala University
19/5   Inclusionary and exclusionary strategies of solidarities in Swedish trade unions
Anders Neergaard, Professor, REMESO
26/5   Borders crossing bodies
Pouran Djampour, Postdoc, REMESO

New Research funding
REMESO have recevied funding for several new research projects that more often than not involve collaborations with colleagues at other departments and universities.
Anders Neergard has received funding for the project “The Scania enigma and geographies of solidarity” by the Swedish Research Council. (https://project.ikos.liu.se/remesoproject/project.php?id=147) The project focuses on the Sweden Democrats (SD) and the role of local and regional gendered place identities in contributing to the regional strength of ethnonationalism, but also to alternative democratic societal projects that mitigate ethnonationalism.
He is also funded, with Diana Mulinari, Lund University, for the project “An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region, 2021-2027, funded by the Swedish Research Council. https://project.ikos.liu.se/remesoproject/project.php?id=152)
Gender and sexuality matter in politics. The term Anti-genderism identifies a deep societal conflict in the challenge and resistance to the global expansion of women´s and sexual minorities’ rights, and the democratization of the family. It highlights political and cultural agendas demanding re-patriarchalisation and re-traditionalisation.

Karin Krifors and Fredy Mora Gamez, receive grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond: Calculating migration: A multi-sited ethnography of algorithmic governance and redistribution keys
As a consequence of increasing instability of migration patterns, and populist fears about border control in Europe, governments increasingly turn to new information infra-structures, sources of digital data and forms of analysis like predictive algorithms. What are the implications of using algorithms as redistribution keys for migrants? Drawing on the interdisciplinary convergences between Migration Studies and Science and Technology Studies, the aim of this project is to follow the implementation of one particular algorithm, developed as a pilot project by the Migration Agency to increase statistical precision of predicting migration to Sweden.
Read more about the project<https://www.rj.se/en/anslag/2020/calculating-migration-a-multi-sited-ethnography-of-algorithmic-governance-and-redistribution-keys/>

REMESO´s new International Advisory Board
We have succeeded to recruit six distinguished scholars that will contribute to the development of REMESO as an internationally recognized research institute. Membership of the IAB is an honorary position.
Professor Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol, UK
Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Professor Manuela Bojadžijev, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Professor Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Sussex, UK
Professor Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, Germany
Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Guest researcher to REMESO during 2021
[En bild som visar person, glasögon, inomhus, svart  Automatiskt genererad beskrivning]Junior lecturer Johanna Gondouin from Theme Gender at LiU is guest researcher at REMESO in 2021. She is working with colleagues Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Mohan Rao and Anindita Majumdar on a project that explores the politics of reproduction in an age of new reproductive technologies (ARTs) and globalization, with a specific focus on Indian transnational and commercial surrogacy (TCS).
Until recently, India was the global capital of a booming market in TCS, and the “outsourcing” of reproductive labor to women of the Global South is a key example of the expanding market in reproductive labor.
The project details how the bodies of underprivileged Indian women –considered as ”waste” and their reproduction as something to be “controlled” (Rao 2004; Rao 2010; Connelly 2006; Wilson 2018), become available as sites of profit generation in surrogacy and egg donation through the intersections between neoliberal health policies and hierarchies of gender, class, caste and religion.

Workshop on Conviviality
On the 26th of March Linné University, in collaboration with Pouran Djampour and Karin Krifors, at REMESO, and Nazem Tahvilzadeh, Malmö university, is organizing the workshop “Conviviality - Coexistence, resistance and anti-racism in a small town and a big city in Sweden”. Karin and Nazem will each give a lecture. After lunch there will be a group discussion on the presented cases as well as on the theory of conviviality.
The workshop is open to all, however requires a registration on the link below no later than the 12th of March. (It will be held in Swedish.)

https://lnu.se/mot-linneuniversitetet/konferenser/conviviality/

Apply: Master in Ethnic and Migration Studies<https://liu.se/en/education/program/f7mem>
[En bild som visar gardin  Automatiskt genererad beskrivning]Make your commitment matter! This unique master’s programme
relates ethnicity and migration to global economic and cultural change,
and to systems of domination and resistance movements.
Tell friends and students!
Swedish and EU students apply before April 15, 2021

[En bild som visar mörk, nära  Automatiskt genererad beskrivning]Sök: Fil kand i Samhälls- och kulturanalys<https://liu.se/utbildning/program/f7ksk>
På SKA studerar du frågor om demokrati, välfärd, urbanisering, integration och migration,
samt politiska och sociala rörelser. Du möter teorier om kön, rasism och postkolonialism ur
ett samtida och ett historiskt perspektiv.  Sök före 15 april.

New publications from REMESO researchers (selection)
2021
Bak Jørgensen M, Schierup C-U. ”Transversal Solidarities and the City”, Critical Sociology. 2021;1–11.
Hansen, P. "The True Economics of Migration", Discover Society, March-April, 2021.
Hansen P. A Modern Migration Theory : An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing. 2021.
Opratko, B., Bojadzijev, M., Bojanic, S. M., Fiket, I., Jonsson, S., Neergaard, A., Ortega Soto, C./.../ “Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis”, Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 44:5, 893–905.
Jonsson, S. (2021) “Moving images: mediating migration as crisis”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol 44: 16
Jonsson, S. (2021) ‘The Art of Protest: Understanding and Misunderstanding Monstrous Events’, Theory & Event. 25:2.
Tazreiter, C & Burridge, A (2021, forthcoming) ‘Temporary migration - the Australia model’, International Migration, Ed. A. Tiandafyllidou – invited submission.
Tazreiter, C, Weber, L (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Global Justice, Ed. Elgar, Cheltenham, 2021.
Tazreiter, C (2021) ‘Race, migration and visual culture. The activist artist challenging the ever-present colonial imagination’ in B. Miyamoto & M. Ruiz, Art & Migration, Manchester University Press.
Tazreiter, C (2021) ‘The haunting presence of life and the afterlife of violence: transgressive borders, disruptive politics and the ghosts of violent pasts’, Geopolitics, guest edited by U. Ozguc and A. Burridge.

2020
Barot S, Bredström A, Mulinari S, Shutzberg M, eds., “Genetik och ras". Fronesis, 2020. 197 p.
Behtoui A, Boreus K, Neergaard A, Yazdanpanah S. “Why are care workers from global south disadvantaged?” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2020, 43(16).
Behtoui A, Hertzberg F, Neergaard A, eds.. Ungdomars fritidsaktiviteter - Deltagande, möjligheter och konsekvenser. Studentlitteratur. 2020.
Bredström A, Mulinari S, Barot S, Shutzberg M. “Ras i genetikens tidevarv.” Fronesis  2020 (66–67).
Calzada I, Gavanas A. The market value of trans-cultural capital. A case study of the market of provision for Scandinavian retirement migrants in Spain. Journal of ethnic and migration studies. 2020;46 (19).
Hansen P., Jonsson S. ‘Eurafrika: Die Geschichte der europäischen Integration als “Entkolonialisierungskompromiss”’. ARCH+: Zeitscxhrift für Architektur und Urbanismus. 2020;(239).
Jonsson S. “A society which is not: Political emergence and migrant agency.” Current Sociology 2020: 68(2).
Jonsson S. “Aesthetic Knowledge of Social Transformations: Migrant Agency and Political Emergence in the Artwork.” The Large Glass Journal of Contemporary Art, Culture and Theory. 2020 (29–30).
Jonsson S. Där historien tar slut: makt, monster och motstånd i en delad värld. Norstedts, 2020.
Jonsson S. “Populism Without Borders” in The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. March, 2020.
Krifors K. Book Review; Early Access. “Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects.” The European Journal of Women’s Studies. Sage, 2020.
Krifors K. “Logistics of migrant labour: rethinking how workers fit transnational economies.” Journal of ethnic and migration studies. 2020.
Krifors, K. (2020) “’When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left’: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration Corridors” in Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement, pp 83-101, Brill. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 178.
Lundström C, Hübinette T. Vit melankoli: En analys av en nation i kris. Makadam Förlag, 2020.
Lundström C, Hübinette T. ”Vit melankoli i krisande nation”. Dagens Arena. 2020.
Lundström C. Review: Mediated Kinship: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Donor Families. Scandinavian Studies. 2020:92(1).
Mählck P., Li Kusterer H L., Montgomery H. (2020) “What professors do in peer review: Interrogating assessment practices in the recruitment of professors in Sweden.” Gender, Work and Organization, 27 (6).
Neergaard A. ”Kan deltagande i föreningslivet minska samhällelig ojämlikhet?” In: Ungdomars fritidsaktiviteter: deltagande, möjligheter och konsekvenser. Studentlitteratur 2020.
Nygård O, Behtoui A. “Access to Social Capital and Educational Returns for Children of Immigrants: Evidence from Three Swedish Studies.” Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 2020;10(2).
Nygård O, Kravchenko Z. ”Fritid och betyg: en undersökning om förhållanden bland ungdomar i Sverige och Ryssland” in Ungdomars fritidsaktiviteter: deltagande, möjligheter och konsekvenser. Studentlitteratur, 2020.
Nygård O. Educational Aspirations and Attainments: How resources relate to outcomes for children of immigrants in disadvantaged Swedish schools  [PhD diss.]. Linköping University Electronic Press; 2020.
Schierup C-U, Ålund A, Kellegioglu I. “Reinventing the People’s House: Time, Space and Activism in Multiethnic Stockholm.” Critical Sociology. 2020.
Schierup C-U, Ålund A. “The Enigma of Commoning in Precarious Times: A Critical Perspective on Social Transformation.” Hightech and Innovation Journal. 2020;1(2):59–66.
Tazreiter, C (2020) ‘Amnesia as a politics of erasure. Contemporary Austrian identities and the traces of past horrors in everyday life’, in Rethinking the Past for a New Future of Conviviality, eds. M. Gržinić, S. Utz, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Look at more REMESO publications in the publication database DIVA:<https://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/resultList.jsf?query=&language=sv&searchType=RESEARCH&noOfRows=50&sortOrder=author_sort_asc&sortOrder2=title_sort_asc&onlyFullText=false&sf=all&aq=%5B%5B%5D%5D&aqe=%5B%5D&aq2=%5B%5B%7B%22dateIssued%22%3A%7B%22from%22%3A%222020%22%2C%22to%22%3A%22%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22organisationId%22%3A%22883106%22%2C%22organisationId-Xtra%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%7B%22publicationTypeCode%22%3A%5B%22review%22%2C%22artisticOutput%22%2C%22bookReview%22%2C%22monographLicentiateThesis%22%2C%22article%22%2C%22comprehensiveLicentiateThesis%22%2C%22book%22%2C%22manuscript%22%2C%22dataset%22%2C%22patent%22%2C%22dissertation%22%2C%22conferenceProceedings%22%2C%22monographDoctoralThesis%22%2C%22report%22%2C%22comprehensiveDoctoralThesis%22%2C%22collection%22%2C%22chapter%22%2C%22other%22%2C%22conferencePaper%22%5D%7D%2C%7B%22contentTypeCode%22%3A%5B%22refereed%22%2C%22science%22%2C%22other%22%5D%7D%5D%5D&af=%5B%5D>

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