Samaneh Khaef Researcher

Undergraduate-level:

- Course coordinators of GIS and human geography (Geografiska informationssystem och kartografi)

- Geographical information processing and analysis (geografisk informationsbehandling)

- Geographic methods (Geografiska metoder)

- Swedish geography ( for exchange students)

- Essay on Swedish geography ( for exchange students)

- Business intelligence in human geography (Omvärldsanalys)

Graduate-level:

- Advanced Methods in Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning (AMIKOS)

- Migration and Social Change – a Life Course Perspective

Research projects:

1-Embedded lives: Contextual effects on life course trajectories (with Bo Malmberg and others). 2026-2029

2- Language and life course: An exploration of the Swedish for immigrants program, 1990–2022(with Bo Malmberg and others). Financed by Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet).

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

3- 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.

Khaef, S., (2025). Unravelling integration: Educational enrolment pathways of adult refugees in Sweden. Forthcoming in Population Journal

Khaef, S., (2024a). Migration Trajectories and Education: Measurement, Spatial Patterns, and Integration Pathways of Adult Migrants. Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Human Geography.

Khaef, S., Haandrikman, K. (2024b). The Initial Residential Patterns of Immigrants Across the Urban Hierarchy in Sweden: The Role of Educational Attainment. Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12608

Khaef, S., (2022). Registration of Immigrants’ Educational Attainment in Sweden: An Analysis of Sources and Time to Registration. Genus 78, 16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00159-5

Khaef, S., Zebardast, E. (2016). Assessing Quality of Life Dimensions in Deteriorated Inner Areas: A case from Javadieh Neighborhood in Tehran Metropolis. Social Indicator Research. 127, 761–775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-0986-6

Khaef, S. (2013). Perception of quality of life through a gendered lens. a case from the city of Birmingham. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth, Working papers

Khaef, S. (2025). Who attends Swedish language courses (SFI)? A multilevel discrete-time survival analysis of immigrants arriving in Sweden during the period 2000–2016. Under revision

Khaef, S. (2025). Does Swedish language acquisition pay off for labor market integration? Geographical perspective. Working paper

Forsberg, S., Khaef, S. (2025). How perceptions of neighborhood safety shape the housing search process and reinforce ethnic residential segregation: an insider-outsider view, Working paper

Forsberg, S., Khaef, S. (2025). Beyond residential segregation: ethnicity, daily mobility, and activity spaces, Working paper

Khaef, S., Migali, S. (2017). The relationship between immigrants’ location in Italian cities and schools, JRC, European Commission, JRC110187. internally published

Khaef, S. (2016). Gendered Perspective in Planning and Development, Ministry of Road and Urban Development, Women portal