Education & Migration Seminar Series (EMSS)
This seminar series is organized by the Education & Migration working group at the Department of Education, Stockholm University. All interested researchers are welcome to participate in our forthcoming seminar presentations and discussions.
Programme 2025:
6 May , 13-15 CET
New Dissertations
Nubin Ciziri and Isabella Strömberg present their dissertations at this spring seminar.
Cirziri´s thesis, (Dis)Integrating Families: Refugees’ social histories and their encounters with education in Sweden, explores how the backgrounds of Kurdish refugees from Syria shape their encounters with education in Sweden, as the key vehicle of state-led integration.
Strömberg´s dissertation explores the concept of disruptivity in the Swedish public education system, centering on Nya Tallskolan – a compulsory school situated in a territorial stigmatized and socio-economic marginalized area.
Location
The seminar take place at Frescativägen 54, room 2411, or via zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/4087375260
Readings - dissertations in full text
(Dis)Integrating Families Refugees’ social histories and their encounters with
education in Sweden Ciziri, N, Uppsala University, 2024
Cycles of Disruption. An Ethnographic Study of Disruptivity in a Swedish Secondary School Strömberg, I, Stockholm University, 2025 (Abstract in English)
Previous seminars 2025
11 February 13-15 CET
Book Launch "Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania"
EMSS will host a book launch where Professor Ann Phoenix and Professor Girma Berhanu will discuss Paula Mählck’s new book, "Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania. Gender learning and Unlearning."
The book analyses domestic work as a process of learning gender, race and class. Moreover, learning to cope as well as possibilities for Unlearning.
Many of our planned seminars will be related to the research project: Navigating Places, Negotiating Boundaries: A Multidisciplinary Study of Migrant Children’s Educational Transitions in Sweden
Seminars 2024
24 September 2024
"Rural Education and Migration"
Professor Elisabeth Öhrn, Department of Education and Special Education, Gothenburg University, talked about the findings from a research project about rural education and migration in 2015.
Abstract and readings
In the autumn of 2015 a large number of mainly Syrian refugees arrived in Sweden. They were unevenly distributed geographically by the authorities and smaller municipalities received proportionally larger numbers than others. The schools became central in the local reception processes. They faced difficulties but also possibilities, both pedagogical, organizational and in relation to social issues. Based on participant observation and interviews with staff in six rural schools in different rural areas from an ethnographic study, in this paper we explore experiences about how schools received the new refugees and how reception influenced teaching. The analyses indicate some changes in forms of teaching (e.g. sensitivity to language differences, more explicit structuring of tasks) that became permanent as they were considered beneficial to non-migrant students as well. In contrast, there were very few signs of changes in the content of teaching, which appears to have largely remained largely the same as before the refugees came.
A Study of the 2015 Reception of Young Refugees in Sweden (259 Kb)
12 November 2024
”Supporting teachers in Swedish compulsory schools to support linguistically minoritized second language learners with migrant backgrounds”
Josefin Nilsson and Karin Petterson, The National Centre for Swedish as a Second Language, Stockholm University.
May 15, 2024: "Symbolic boundaries"
Andrea Voyer (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University) and Stefan Lund (Department of Education, Stockholm University) will talk about symbolic boundaries, superdiverse school cultures and incorporation.
Venue: Room 2519
Readings:
‘If the students don’t come, or if they don’t finish, we don’t get the money.’ (1582 Kb)
(Voyer. A)
Immigrant incorporation in Education: High school students’ negotiation of belonging. (344 Kb)
(Lund S.)
21 February, 2024
"Educational Trajectories"
Ben Wilson, Elena Pupaza and Frankseco Junior Yorke (Department of sociology, Stockholm University) and Samaneh Khaef (Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University) talked about educational trajectories and the inequalities that are faced by adult refugees and the children and grandchildren of refugees living in Sweden.
Readings
Persistent educational inequality among the children and grandchildren of refugees? (1249 Kb)
Pupaza E, Harber-Aschan L, Wilson B (2023)
Seminars 2023
September 19, 13.00–15.00: "Places and spaces"
Danielle Ekman Ladru (Department of Child & Youth studies, Stockholm University) and Natacha Webster (Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University) will talk about their views and experiences of how to study neighborhoods and urban spaces from a qualitative research perspective.
Reading
Children’s prosthetic citizenship (571 Kb)
Article by Danielle Ekman Ladru et al. published in Social & Cultural Geography
(Re)visiting the neighbourhood (173 Kb)
Article by Natasha Webster et al. published in Geography Compass, 15(12)
November 8, 13.00–15.00: "Educational transitions"
Lisbeth Lundahl (Department of Applied Educational Science, Umeå University) and Bo Malmberg (Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University) will talk about school choice, segregation and what guides and restricts migrant students’ educational transitions.
Reading
Winding paths (221 Kb)
Article by Lindblad, M., Lundahl, L. (2020)
Contact
- Visiting address
- 2512
- Frescativägen 54
- Visiting address
- 2412
- Frescativägen 54
Last updated: March 3, 2025
Source: IPD