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Streams
Migration, Welfare and the Political Economy of Labour Market Segmentation
This research stream includes studies on migration, changing work organisation and ethnic segmentation in private and public sectors of the economy. It raises new perspectives on the informalisation of labour, on recruitment and employment strategies and on institutional discrimination. Research within the stream develops understandings of social capital, the local and transnational networks and the career strategies of migrants and ethnic minorities in cities marked by residential segregation, complex ethnic divisions of labour and new occupational niches. It relates the political economy of international migration and changing ethnic relations to the study of changing welfare regimes and labour market regulation and to the incremental influence of supra-national frameworks of governance.
Stream leader: Associate Professor Zoran Slavnic
Globalisation and the Reconstitution of Normative and Legal Frameworks
This stream addresses policy challenges brought about by the globalisation, EU enlargement, changing governance of migration and related flexibilization of labour markets and the consequential implications for labour standards. It examines regulatory and normative discourses of migration management at one level, and the empirical and policy outcomes of processes of globalization on the European labour market on the other. In the context of the new peripheries of Europe, both in the former communist countries now within the EU and those on its doorstep, of particular interest is the development of inclusive agendas that promote labour rights and collective forms of representation at workplace level thus securing decent work.
Stream leader: Associate Professor Branka Likic-Brboric
Post-National Strategies for Growth, Inclusion and Diversity
The focus of this stream is the analysis of a wide range of strategies for ?renewal?, developed in a European context, as part of a wider change of welfare policy. The stream examines strategies for development, inclusion and diversity, from the post-national to the national, regional and local level, initiated in a variety of policy areas, such as education, regional and urban development, entrepreneurship and the inclusion of migrants and refugees in the labour market. Of particular importance is the development of networked and deliberative forms of governance based on partnerships between actors across sector divisions, including public sector institutions, business, trade unions, employer agencies, NGOs and civil society.
Stream leader: Professor Emerita Aleksandra Ålund
Political emergence, social movements, aesthetics of knowledge
Political emergence, social movements, aesthetics of knowledge
Migration, Public Service and Health
Research within this stream includes the study of migration and ethnic relations in welfare institutions with particular focus on health and education. Central questions are how public and private services are organized and distributed to an ethnically diverse population, the implementation of social rights and provisions and how clients and customers are shaped by current socio-economic processes. The impact of racialisation and social exclusion on health and care is crucial for this stream, and the studies adopt intersectional methodologies to examine how class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and age affect different aspects of health and care in a globalized era.
Stream leader: Associate professor Anna Bredström
Citizenship and Ethnic Relations: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives
The stream is organized around two critical terms - citizenship and ethnic relations - which resonate into two major areas of research; one dealing with politics and policy, and how the relation between individual and state is transformed through the institution of citizenship; the other one dealing with ethnicity, culture, and politics of belonging, and how the relation between individual and social community is transformed through the ways in which the individual is addressed as embodying a specific ethnic, national, racial, sexual or gendered identity. Citizenship and ethnic relations are seen as instances of social formation and collective identification and hence as parts of the most enduring fabrics of human history.
Stream leaders: Professor Peo Hansen and Professor Stefan Jonsson