Karen HaandrikmanProfessor

• Programme director Master's Programme in Human Geography.
• Advanced method in human geography and urban and regional planning (in English), master level, course coordinator (KG7232).
• Migration and social change (in English), master level (KG7206).
• Social scientific and spatial methods (in Swedish), bachelor level, course coordinator (KG2304).
• Population, environment and landscape change (in Swedish), bachelor level, course coordinator (KG1302).
• Place, identity and migration, optional bachelor course (in English)(KG2307).
• Gender and geography, optional bachelor course (in English) (KG2311);
• Housing, segregation and moves, optional bachelor course (in Swedish) (KG2308);
• Bachelor thesis supervision, Human Geography (KG3201); Urban and Regional Planning (KG3217); Global Development.
• Master's thesis supervision, students in Human Geography i (KG9210); Urban and Regional Planning (KG9211); Globalization, Environment and Social Change; and Demography.

Research focus: Migration; integration; segregation; neighbourhoods; mixed methods

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New and upcoming research projects

• Disentangling Segregation at Different Scales: The role of intergenerational transmission, household mobility and housing development (PI, with Juta Kawalerowicz, Ida Borg, Willem Boterman and Joeke Kuyvenhoven), Swedish Research Council, Research Environment Grant, 2024-2029.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities among Girls and Boys of the Second Generation: Longitudinal and Intergenerational
  Effects of Gendered Segregation (PI: Karen Haandrikman, with Siddartha Aradhya (Stockholm University Demography Unit) and Sara Forsberg (Uppsala University)), Swedish Research Council, Migration and Integration project grant, 2024-2028.

Ongoing research projects

• The Neighbourhood Revisited: Spatial polarization and social cohesion in contemporary Sweden (with Bo Malmberg and others). Financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. 2019-2024.

Finished research projects

• Migration trajectories. Geographical Mobility, Family Careers, Employment, Education, and Social Insurance in Sweden, 1990–2016 (with Bo Malmberg and others). Financed by Forte: the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare. 2017-2023.
• Apples that fall far from the trees. Childhood social context and its importance for intergenerational mobility (with Maria Brandén, Demography Unit, Stockholm University). Financed by the Swedish Research Council (VR) (2017–2021).
• Opportunities and Obstacles: Identifying hidden resources and skills to promote entrepreneurship among migrant women in Swedish regions (with Natasha Webster). Financed by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas) (2017–2020). 
• Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM): Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research, administered at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology, and coordinated by Professor Gunnar Andersson (2014-2019).
• Residential segregation in five European countries. A comparative study using individualized scalable neighbourhoods (with Michael Nielsen, Eva Andersson and Bo Malmberg). PI for this 1.6 million euro grant, which was a collaboration between the departments of Human Geography in Stockholm, Human Geography & Sociology at University of Oslo, Statistics Denmark, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, and Interface Demography at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 2014-2018. Project website. 

PhD supervision

• Linda Randall - "Residential mobility and remote work: A Nordic comparative study". Main supervisor. Started October 2023.
• Sofi Johansson - "Gendered feelings of unsafety in the urban environment - A quantitative feminist approach". Main supervisor. May 2021-November 2023.
• Joeke Kuyvenhoven - "Short and long-term neighbourhood effects of childhood mobility". Based at NIDI, the Hague. Assistant supervisor. Started September 2019.
• Samaneh Khaef - "Educational trajectories of Swedish and foreign-born population". Assistant supervisor. Started January 2018. Public defense April 26, 2024.
• Andrea Monti - "Moving again. Studies of international return and onward migration". Assistant supervisor. Started October 2015. Successfully defended June 4, 2021.
• Louisa Vogiazides – “Immigrants’ spatial and social trajectories in Sweden”. Main supervisor. Successfully defended 27 March, 2020.
• Sara Thalberg – “Students and Family Formation. Studies on educational enrolment and childbearing in Sweden”. Assistant supervisor. Successfully defended 15 November 2013.

Publications

Wimark, Thomas, Michael M. Nielsen and Karen Haandrikman (2017). Boende och integration: Samband mellan invandrares initiala bosättning och deras sysselsättning och inkomst. Kulturgeografiskt seminarium 2017:2. Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

Webster, Natasha and Karen Haandrikman (2017). Thai women entrepreneurs in Sweden: Critical perspectives on migrant small businesses. Women's Studies International Forum 60, 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2016.11.001

Webster, Natasha and Karen Haandrikman (2016), Thai women in Sweden: Victims or participants? Social Sciences Asia 2(1), 13–29. https://doi.org/10.14456/ssa.2016.4

Haandrikman, Karen and Sadia Hassanen (2014), Onward migration of African Europeans. Comparing attitudes to migration motives. Stockholm Research Reports in Demography 2014:15.

Hedberg, Charlotta and Karen Haandrikman (2014), Repopulation of the Swedish countryside: Globalisation by international migration. Journal of Rural Studies, 34: 128-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.01.005

Haandrikman, Karen (2013), Book review of Charsley (2012), “Transnational marriage. New perspectives from Europe and Beyond”. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 3(4), 234-235. http://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2013-0003

Haandrikman, Karen (2014), Binational marriages in Sweden: Is there an EU effect? Population, Space and Place, 20(2), 177-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1770.

Haandrikman, Karen and Leo J.G. van Wissen (2012), Explaining the flight of Cupid's arrow: A spatial micro model of partner choice. European Journal of Population 28(4), 417-439. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-012-9260-7

Haandrikman, Karen and Inge Hutter (2012), ‘That’s a different kind of person’ - Spatial connotations and partner choice. Population, Space and Place 18(3), 241-259. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.661

Haandrikman, Karen and Leo J.G. van Wissen (2011), Regional variation in short distance homogamy. Genus 67(1), 45-59.

Haandrikman, Karen, Leo J.G. van Wissen and Carel Harmsen (2011), Explaining spatial homogamy. Compositional, spatial and regional cultural determinants of regional patterns of spatial homogamy in the Netherlands. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 4, 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-009-9044-6

Haandrikman, Karen (2011), Spatial homogamy: The geographical dimensions of partner choice. Journal of Economic and Social Geography 102(1), 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2010.00642.x

Haandrikman, Karen (2010), The geographical dimensions of partner choice. Rozenberg Publishers, Amsterdam. Project page with full text.

Haandrikman, Karen (2010), Waar ontmoeten partners elkaar? Sociale differentiatie in ontmoetingsplaatsen [Where do partners meet? Social differentiation in meeting places]. Mens en Maatschappij 85(2), 176-195. https://doi.org/10.5117/MEM2010.2.HAAN

Haandrikman, Karen, Carel Harmsen, Leo J.G. van Wissen and Inge Hutter (2008), Geography matters. Patterns of spatial homogamy in the Netherlands. Population, Space and Place 14(5), 387-405. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.487

Haandrikman, Karen and Leo J.G. van Wissen (2008), Effects of the fertility transition on birth seasonality in the Netherlands. Journal of Biosocial Science 40 (5), 655-672. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932008002733

Haandrikman, Karen, Carel Harmsen, Leo J.G. van Wissen and Inge Hutter (2008), De geografische dimensie van partnerkeuze [The geographical dimension of partner choice].  Bevolkingstrends 56(3), 19-28. https://nidi.nl/shared/content/output/2008/bt-56-03-haandrikman.pdf

Haandrikman, Karen (2007), A place for pensioners? Demographic developments. In: Gregory Ashworth, Peter Groote and Piet Pellenbarg (eds.), A compact geography of the northern Netherlands. First and second edition. In Boekvorm, Assen, pp. 19-22.

Haandrikman, Karen, N.V. Rajeswari, Inge Hutter and B.M. Ramesh (2004), Coping with time. Using a local time-path calendar to reduce heaping in durations. Time & Society 13(2/3), 339-362. https://doi.org//10.1177/0961463X04045476

Popular science contributions

Haandrikman, Karen and Rafael Costa (2022). Sociaaleconomische segregatie in Europese hoofdsteden (Socioeconomic segregation in European capitals). Demos, April.

Haandrikman, Karen and Webster, Natasha (2020), Blog "Rural women entrepreneurs need better support", on SLU's blog on Swedish research on rural areas.

Haandrikman, K. and Webster, N. (2020), "Kvinna, utrikes född och företagare -En heterogen grupp med olika behov". YouTube film presenting the chapter as part of the digital launch of the book "Framtidens chefer – Nyanlända och utrikes födda kvinnors entreprenörskap", June 10–12 juni, FORES Youtube. 

Haandrikman, Karen (2019), Nederlandse life style migranten - Waar wonen de meeste Nederlanders? Hollandse Nieuwtjes, oktober, pp. 22-24.

Haandrikman, Karen and Natasha Webster (2018), Nederlandse vrouwelijke ondernemers in Zweden: Kansen en belemmeringen. Hollandse Nieuwtjes (september), 13-15.

Haandrikman, Karen and Natasha Webster (2018), Thaise migrantenvrouwen in Nederland en Zweden [Thai migrant women in the Netherlands and Sweden]. Demos 4: 1-4.

Hedberg, Charlotta and Karen Haandrikman (2011), Mångfaldens utmaning på landsbygden. Invandrare & Minoriteter 38(4/5), 21-24.

Haandrikman, Karen (2007), Soort zoekt soort. Ontmoetingsplaatsen van partners [Like likes like. Meeting places of partners). Demos 23(10), 12-14.

Recent and upcoming (conference) presentations

"The preferred neighbourhood: The role of migrant background and income in sorting towards segregation". With Eva Andersson. European Network for Housing Researchers, June 28-30, 2023, Lodz. Also presented at the symposium The Relevance of Applied Population Geography Research, September  19-22, 2023, Lesvos.

"New Immigration Destinations in Sweden. Spatial reflections and empirical findings on rural residential migrant trajectories". With Charlotta Hedberg and Guilherme Chihaya. Forskarkonferens  Storstad och Periferi efter pandemin. October 10-12, 2022, Högbo Bruk. 

"Greeting the neighbours - Local social capital and the role of neighbourhood type and personality". European Network for Housing Researchers, August 30 - September 2, 2022, Barcelona.

"Super-movers vs non-movers: Childhood internal mobility in Sweden". With Louisa Vogiazides and Rafael Costa. European Population Conference, June 29-July 2, Groningen.

"Ethnic and socio-economic segregation levels across Europe using individualized scalable neighbourhoods". Keynote at project conference of "Future Migration Scenarios for Europe", October 20, 2021 at Nordregio, Stockholm.

“New immigrant destinations? Residential trajectories of newly arrived migrants from a rural perspective”. With Charlotta Hedberg and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. Ruralities and Regions in Transition, SLU & Nordregio, Åkersberga, November 11-12, 2021.

"New gateways in Sweden? Secondary migration and employment careers of newly arrived migrants". With Charlotta Hedberg and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. Stockholm Sessions in Migration, April 13, 2021 & Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, May 5-8, 2021."Local gender contracts". Higher seminar, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, February 23, 2021.

PhD Examination Committee Member

• Roselinde van der Wiel, University of Groningen, July 5, 2022.
• Alex Gimenez de la Prada, Linköping University, June 14, 2021.
• Margarita Chudnovskaya, Stockholm University, October 13, 2017.
• Yannu Zheng, Lund University, April 12, 2017.

International Advisory Board

Population, Space and Place

Reviewer for

Advances in Life Course Research; Demographic Research; Demography; European Journal of Population; European Journal of Spatial Development; European Societies; European Sociological Review; Genus – Journal of Population Sciences; Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography; Geographical Research; Globalizations; Growth and Change - A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy; the History of the Family; International Migration; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Marriage and Family; Journal of Rural Studies; Journal of Urban Affairs; Nordic Journal of Migration Research; Nordic Journal of Social Research; Papers in Regional Science; Population Research and Policy Review; Population, Space and Place; Social Science Research.

Scientific affiliations

Association of American Geographers, European Association for Population Studies, Netherlands Demographic Society, The Swedish Demographic Association (board member and co-chairman 2018-present).

Previous work and education

Senior lecturer, Department of HUman Geography, Stockholm University, 2016-2023.

Researcher, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 2012-2016.

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 2010-2012.

PhD student in Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 2005-2010. Population Research Centre, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Dissertation: The geographical dimensions of partner choice. Supervisors: Prof.dr. I. Hutter and Prof.dr. L.J.G. van Wissen. Cooperation with Statistics Netherlands.

Assistant professor, Department of Demography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, 2000-2005.

MSc Demography, University of Groningen, 1997-2000. Optional courses at University of Ulster at Coleraine, UK. Specialisation ‘Geography and Education’. Taught geography lessons at secondary school. Master thesis: "Coping with time. Measurement and perceptions of age and duration in reproductive health surveys."

BSc Human Geography, University of Groningen, 1995-1997.