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International migration and successful host country integration continues to challenge and pose opportunities for researchers, policymakers, public agencies, trade unions, civil society, employers, and immigrants themselves in different ways. The critical event of the pandemic had significant global impact and this new internationally published book brings together leading scholars with diverse socioeconomic perspectives. The book serves as a background to discuss the research and its implications with multi-stakeholders working in the space.

Welcome by Stockholm School of Economics President Professor Lars Strannegård and Chair of Delmi and Uppsala University Professor Joakim Palme. Academic keynote by Professor Douglas Massey of Princeton University and Policy keynote by Anders Hall, State Secretary to the Swedish Migration Minister, Ministry of Justice.

Research contributors panel moderated by co editor Professor Karl Wennberg:

Dr. Nahikari Irastorza, Malmö University
Dr. Max Jerneck, SIR CSR at Stockholm School of Economics
Associate Professor Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Malmö University
Professor Jon Rogstad, Oslo Metropolitan University
Dr. Karin Hjorthen Zelano, University of Oslo

Multistakeholder panel moderated by Henrik Malm Lindberg (Delmi) with Therese Lindström (Arbetsförmedlingen), Mardin Baban (New Friends Agency), Anna Bartosiewicz (Migrationsrättsenheten), Susanna Ståhl (Nordic Choice Hotels), Anna Carlsson Sigstedt (Diversity Charter Sweden) and Peter Thomelius (Visita).

Book content

MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD:
SOCIOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg and Karl Wennberg (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan

1. Introduction to migration and integration in a post-pandemic world
Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg and Karl Wennberg

2. The shape of things to come: international migration in the 21st century
Douglas S. Massey

3. New perspectives on migrant transnationalism in the pandemic era
Özge Bilgili, Maggi W.H. Leung and Kia Malinen

4. Cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in Sweden
Max Jerneck

5. Binds and bridges to protection in crisis: the case of unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan in Sweden
Gregg Bucken-Knapp and Karin Hjorthen Zelano

6. The tricky thing of implementing migration policies: insights from return policies in Sweden
Henrik Malm Lindberg

7. Migration, trade unions and the re-making of social inclusion: the case of territorial union engagement in France, Italy and Spain
Stefania Marino, Miguel Martínez Lucio and Heather Connolly

8. Swedish trade unions and migration: challenges and responses
German Bender

9. Unemployed marginalised immigrant women: work integrating social enterprises as a possible solution
Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall

10. Skill requirements and employment of immigrants in Swedish hospitality
Aliaksei Kazlou and Karl Wennberg

11. Ethnic discrimination during the Covid-19 pandemic
Ali Ahmed, Mats Lundahl and Eskil Wadensjö

12. Model minority and honorary White? Structural and individual accounts on being Asian in Sweden
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Nahikari Irastorza and Aliaksei Kazlou

13. Loyalty and integration among young adults with minority backgrounds in Norway
Jon Rogstad

14. Immigrant integration and vaccine hesitancy among Somali immigrants in Stockholm
Sarah Valdez

15. Conclusion to migration and integration in a post-pandemic world
Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg and Karl Wennberg

The book and event gratefully acknowledge funding from Formas, project number 2018-02226.