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The Centre on Global Migration
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Supporting research, education and utilization of knowledge on global migration and integration. Based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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🤝Integration into the Swedish labour market is often a long and complex process. A new study shows that it is in human encounters that crucial steps are taken.

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Researchers followed refugees’ path into work over seven years
Integration into the Swedish labour market is often a long and complex process. A new study shows that it is in human encounters that crucial steps are taken. Mentors and immediate managers, as well a...
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January 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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GDP and climate drive global migration to Nordic nations. A country’s economic condition and climate baseline shape its attractiveness as a migration destination, a new study finds.

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GDP and climate drive global migration to Nordic nations
A country’s economic condition and climate baseline shape its attractiveness as a migration destination, a new study finds. Migration and climate data from 160 countries over 40 years project Finland ...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Read our latest news:
🎤 International Migration Day Lecture
🎓 The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School in Migration and Integration– Courses Open for Application
🌍 New course explores diversity, equity and inclusion
📚 Publication tips
📝 CGM Policy Briefs
✨ ..and more
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December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Governing Diversity at the Frontline: The Dual Logics of Cultural Sensitivity and Assimilation in Sweden

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Governing Diversity at the Frontline: The Dual Logics of Cultural Sensitivity and Assimilation in Sweden
This article investigates how street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in Sweden manage cross-cultural challenges in their everyday interactions with migrants. While Swedish integration policy promotes both re...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Read our latest news🌍
In this newsletter:
📅 Events
🗣️ Call for Panels: NMR conference
📚 Call for Papers: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th–21st Centuries
🧪 Three New Research Grants on Health & Migration
📝 Publication tips
📄 CGM Policy Briefs
...and more ✨
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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter November 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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🎓 New policy brief shows how highly educated migrants in Sweden end up in low-wage jobs due to regulations and employer dependence. 📘 Read more: www.gu.se/sites/defaul...
#labourmarket #migration #policy
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October 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Read the latest news from CGM! 🌍
In this newsletter:
📅 Upcoming events
📚 The Swedish Research Council’s Research School in Migration and Integration: Courses open for application
📝Call for papers: 2026 IMISCOE Spring Conference
📄 Publication tips and CGM policy briefs
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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter September 2025
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September 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Another new CGM Policy Brief📘 Spehar, Andrea (2025). "Governance Through Uncertainty: Implications for Refugee Labour Market Integration."

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June 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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New CGM Policy Brief!

Elgenius, Gabriella (2025). “Civil Society’s Role in Promoting Integration in Superdiverse Neighbourhoods Facing Socioeconomic Challenges in Sweden.”

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June 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Are you a PhD student and interested in Migration and Labour Market Integration?

Apply before 11 August to this PhD course at the University of Gothenburg?

Part of the Swedish Research Council's Graduate School in Migration and Integration 🇸🇪📚.
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Migration and Labour Market Integration
7,5 ECTS
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June 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Read the latest news from CGM!🌍In this newsletter:
📅 Upcoming events
🧪 Research news
🎓 Internship opportunity
📚 The Swedish Research Council’s Research School in Migration and Integration: Courses open for application
📝 Publication tips
#MigrationResearch #internship
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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter May 2025
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May 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Read the latest news from CGM

In this newsletter:
📅 Upcoming events
🎓The Swedish Research Council's Research School in Migration and Integration – Courses open for Application
🗣️ Recordings from webinar
📖 New publications
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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter April 2025
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April 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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New chapter by Andrea Spehar out now via Springer 📘:
"The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum"
🧭 Tackles whether the EU's new policy can really deliver a sustainable, unified migration approach.
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#EU #Migration #Policy #NewPact
The EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum: Towards a Long-Term Sustainable European Migration Policy?
From the late 1990s onward, the European Union has been busy developing a common asylum policy. The Common European Asylum System (CEAS), which first came to serve as the Union’s primary framewo...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📢 New Working Paper 📢

Is residential segregation driven by migrant preferences or host community bias?

Akbiyik, Ahmet and Ferree, Karen E. and Kao, Kristen, Preferences for Segregation? A Study of Migrants and Hosts in Adana, Turkey (September 16, 2024).
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Preferences for Segregation? A Study of Migrants and Hosts in Adana, Turkey
Do segregated migrant neighborhoods indicate "preferences for segregation?"  Are preferences symmetric across host and migrant communities?
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April 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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📢 Excited to share a new publication in Review of International Political Economy by Alexander Jung and Andrea Spehar:

"State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg"
State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg
In the wake of policies that facilitate access to the formal labour market, refugees encounter skills devaluation, precarious employment and exploitation. Scholarship on the political economy of re...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Are you a PhD student 🎓 and interested in Migration and Labour Market Integration 🌍💼? Apply for the PhD course: "Migration and Labour Market Integration", at the University of Gothenburg.

🔗https://www.gu.se/en/study-gothenburg/migration-and-labour-market-integration
April 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Read the latest news from CGM 📰🌍
In this newsletter:
🚀 Launching CGM Policy Briefs
📅 Events
🔬Gothenburg Science Festival
🎓VR:s Research School in Migration and Integration- Courses Autumn 2025
🗣️ New course on Intercultural Communication & Pedagogic Competence
📖Publications
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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter March 2025
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March 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📢 New Publication from the University of Gothenburg on "Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets."🏡💼 By Urban Susanne, Holmqvist Emma & Omanović Vedran. Published in the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.

📖 Read the full article here: journal-njmr.org/articles/10....
Organizing Integration in the Swedish Labor and Housing Markets | Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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March 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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📢 Exciting news from CGM! 📢 We’re launching our own Policy Brief series! 🎉📄 Our first brief explores insights from Newly Arrived Migrants’ Experiences of Encounters with Frontline Bureaucrats.
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CGM Policy Briefs
In 2025, CGM launches its own Policy Brief series. The purpose is to highlight research at the University of Gothenburg with high societal relevance and present it in an accessible way. Through our po...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Read the latest news from Centre on Global Migration - CGM 🌍📢

In this newsletter:
📣 Call for abstracts for the 7th Nordic STS Conference
🎟️ Upcoming events
🔬 Gothenburg Science Festival
📚 New publications

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Centre on Global Migration Newsletter February 2025
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February 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM