List of Experts – Migration, Integration, Ethnicity, etc.

List of Experts – Migration, Integration, Ethnicity, etc.

Sweden’s migration and integration policies are currently undergoing major changes that have implications for society as a whole. At REMESO, journalists can find researchers who can comment on, analyze, and provide perspectives on these developments and the public debate.

Aleksandra Ålund is a professor emerita specializing in social movements for the social and cultural rights of migrants and “post-migrants.” She has studied multicultural suburban areas in Sweden, as well as how migrants and human rights activists collaborate across national borders to influence national and international organizations and UN conventions on the rights of migrants and refugees.
Contact: 011-36 32 32, aleksandra.alund@liu.se

Anna Bredström is an associate professor of ethnicity and migration. Her research focuses on medicine, health, and healthcare. She studies topics such as post-COVID, racism in healthcare, health inequalities, youth sexual health, and how race and ethnicity categories are used in medical knowledge production and biometric technology.
Contact: 011-36 32 42, anna.bredstrom@liu.se

Stefan Jonsson is a professor and department head at REMESO, with expertise in migration, asylum law, nationalism, discrimination, and integration from a historical perspective. He also conducts research on the legacy of colonialism and imperialism in today’s world and on how migration and diversity are expressed culturally and artistically.
Contact: 011-36 36 30, stefan.jonsson@liu.se

Kristoffer Jutvik is a senior lecturer with expertise in inclusion, mobility and asylum. His research focuses primarily on changes in Swedish migration policy and its impact on society and individuals, as well as political participation among people with a refugee background.
Contact: 011-363422, kristoffer.jutvik@liu.se

Karin Krifors is a senior lecturer in ethnicity and migration, specializing in the conditions of temporary migrant workers, digital migration systems, and new technologies in the management of asylum and immigration within the EU. Karin also conducts research on anti-racism, migrant social movements, and local integration networks—particularly in smaller cities and rural areas.
Contact: 011-36 33 33, karin.krifors@liu.se

Catrin Lundström is an associate professor who writes about Swedishness and whiteness and can comment on issues related to gender, race, privilege, migration, and intersectionality. She is also co-author of the book *White Melancholy: An Analysis of a Nation in Crisis*, which examines Sweden’s modern history of whiteness with a focus on the welfare state and the role of the Sweden Democrats in this context.
Contact: 011-36 34 35, catrin.lundstrom@liu.se.

Anders Neergaard is a professor and director of REMESO with expertise in trade unions, migrant workers, foreign-born individuals, ethnicity, and discrimination. He can comment on, among other things, the restrictive development of migration and integration policies since 2016, as well as the Sweden Democrats and the Tidö Agreement.
Contact: 011-36 32 18, anders.neergaard@liu.se

Olav Nygård is a senior lecturer and conducts research on inequality in education, segregated schools, and foreign-born youth in rural areas.
Contact: 011-36 36 67, olav.nygard@liu.se

Carl-Ulrik Schierup, professor emeritus, combines critical political economy with sociology and cultural studies on migration, precarious work, stratified citizenship, ethnicity, racism, and nationalism. His current research focuses on anti-racist commons in Swedish cities, as well as global social movements for the rights of migrants and ethnic minorities.
Contact: 011-36 32 28, carl-ulrik.schierup@liu.se

Claudia Tazreiter is Professor of sociology at REMESO. Her research focuses on marginalised populations, belonging, identity and new formations of sociality. She has worked and researched in the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. She is interested in the role researchers play in social transformation and the ways knowledge is produced within and outside institutions of learning. Claudia also works with scholars and students at risk and the associated topic of academic freedom and its links to freedom of speech.
Contact: 011-36 36 78, claudia.tazreiter@liu.se