Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM)

30/09/2026

New issue out now:
Current Issues in Migration Research, Vol. 3(2) 2026!

This issue brings together a rich set of contributions on integration, belonging and exclusion, including our Special Section 'Integration in the Context of Migration and Diversity'. The articles span Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, and range from citizenship and return migration to remote work, activism and the politics of neighbourhood mixing.

Current Issues in Migration Research is a journal established at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration (MIM), Sweden, in 2024. Current Issues in Migration Research publishes a wide range of research- and practice-based insights on migration. The journal constitutes a research platform for fa...

30/09/2026

Welcome to listen to Michael Orlando Sharpe, Malmö City Guest Professor in Migration Studies at MIM, Malmö University:

Migrations seminar: Race, Interests, and Perceptions in International Migration: A Review

Michael Orlando Sharpe is Professor of Political Science at York College and Professor of Political Science and International Migration Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Thursday 1 October, 13:15 - 15:00, on campus or online

23/09/2026

Migration seminar: "Becoming the Road: Migrant-Made Infrastructures and the Corridor of Violent Transit"

Thursday 24 September, 13:15 - 15:00
NB! Niagara, 10th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or Zoom

Speakers
Martin Bak Jørgensen, Professor in Processes of Migration at DEMOS at the Department for Culture and Learning, Aalborg University

Mashudu Salifu, PhD Fellow at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University and a member of the DEMOS research group

Tomislav Pušić, PhD Fellow at Aalborg University’s Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities and a member of the DEMOS research group

Welcome to join us!

https://mau.se/en/calendar/migration-seminar-becoming-the-road-migrant-made-infrastructures/

09/09/2026

Welcome to the Migration seminar

"What happens when exceptional migration measures become embeded as ordinary democratic governance?"

Speaker: Michelle Pace, Professor, independent researcher, and Associate Researcher (non-residential) at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

Thursday 10 September, 13:15 - 15:00
Niagara, 9th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or zoom

02/09/2026

Welcome to the autumn semester´s first
Migration Seminar, 3 September, 13,15

Book launch: "A Long Journey Home: Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement"

Speaker: Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester

Join us at Malmö University campus at Niagara, or online

Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, PhD in Development Studies from the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester

27/05/2026

Welcome to the final Migration Seminar of the semester:

Paradigm Change in Swedish Immigration and Integration Policy: Why, How and Where to?

Panel discussion with Henrik Emilsson, Ann-Cathrine Jungar and Andreas Asplén Lundstedt.

Thursday 28 May at 13.15, online or on-site.

From the late 1990s and onwards, Sweden became known as the exception to a European trend of stricter immigration and integration policies across Europe. As a model, Swedish exceptionalism was defined by high migrant volumes per capita with a strong emphasis on humanitarian reasons (asylum and famil...

20/05/2026

MIM Master Thesis Award: A Qualitative Study of Emotional Labour in the Context of EU Internal Immigration

Welcome to join us Thursday 21 May at 13.15 online or on-site

Speaker: Clara Noa Stelljes, master’s graduate from International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies

Clara Noa Stelljes, master’s graduate from International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Department of Global Political Studies

06/05/2026

Welcome to join us for this week´s Migration seminar: "60 years of transnational engagements through letters60 years of transnational engagements through letters: Examining a sibling relationship in a Swiss transnational family"

Thursday 7 May, 13:15 - 15:00 online or on-site

Speaker. Brigitte Suter, Associate professor IMER, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University

This seminar presents ongoing research on epistolary practices as mediations of transnational care. The study examines a sixty year correspondence between two brothers in a Swiss family, tracing how their letter writing sustained emotional closeness and enabled forms of caregiving across distance. B...

24/04/2026

Welcome to the Migration Seminar!
Monday 27 April, 13.15 online or on campus, Malmö University

"All that is solid melts into Mobility: Environmental Degradation and its Implications for Membership in Political Communities"

Profile
Thomas Faist, Professor of Sociology of Transnationalization, Migration and Development, Bielefeld University

All that is solid melts into Mobility: Environmental Degradation and its Implications for Membership in Political Communities

08/04/2026

Welcome to the Migration Seminar!
Thursday 9 April, 13.15.

"Christian Immigration to the Nordic Countries: The estimated volume of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant migration from 2001 to 2024"

Profile
Tuomas Martikainen, Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Turku, Finland

Christian Immigration to the Nordic Countries: The estimated volume of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant migration from 2001 to 2024