A lot is known about the inequalities experienced by refugees, but much less is known about their children’s lives. This project will study the inequalities that are faced by the children and grandchildren of refugees living in Sweden.

Understanding how the foreign-born population perceives and responds to further in-migration in the host country is essential for evaluating social cohesion. This project studies how migrants perceive, respond to, and are shaped by further migration.

This project applies a life course perspective to study socioeconomic inequalities in terms of unemployment and income poverty dynamics between second generation immigrants and ancestral Swedes.

The project "Exposure to Swedish society and immigrant integration: The family formation of immigrants who arrive as children" brings together four researchers with extensive experience in studying the family formation of immigrants and their children.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand the combined influences of origin and destination contexts on immigrant childbearing.

The worldwide migration today are at historical levels. Previous research has shown that migrants live longer than natives, but also that migrants have higher morbidity rates. In other words, they live longer, but with poorer health. This project will examine this paradox, focusing on the migrant populations of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Inequality in the length of life is the most fundamental of all inequality, but has been overlooked in the study of international migrants. For migrants, this represents a complex mix of their previous conditions in the origin country, the migration process, and current and often disadvantageous conditions in the host country.

Migrant Trajectories is a research programme that explores the life trajectories of migrants from their arrival in Sweden to the present, focusing on the five main life domains – geographical residence and housing, family formation, labour market participation, educational careers, and social security – and the interrelationships between them.

Young people in immigrant families have on average markedly higher educational and occupational aspirations than others, something often referred to as ‘immigrant optimism’. In this project, we assess whether higher aspirations are a help or a hindrance for young people with foreign-born parents.

This project examines and discusses ways of improving current estimation methods using Swedish total population register data.

Poverty has a clear impact on the mental health of children, but when and how it happens is still unknown. The project "Poverty and mental illness in the children of migrants – a longitudinal study of inequalities and key mechanisms" will fill in the knowledge gaps using unique data sources and innovative methods.

How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children?

Increased rates of immigration have led to rising concerns about integration in Europe. Social ties are often argued to promote integration by helping immigrants locate work and housing.

The Stockholm University SIMSAM Node for Demographic Research (SUNDEM) builds on the potential for top-class demographic research as provided by the individual, longitudinal, and spatial data available in Sweden’s population registers and the system of administrative registers that builds on the population registers.