Research project Migrant Trajectories
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.
The programme builds on research collaborations between human geographers from the universities of Stockholm and Umeå and demographers from Stockholm University.
Project description
During the past thirty years there has been a remarkable increase in immigration to Sweden. Many assume that this will have major impacts on Swedish society during the next decades. Much of the development will depend on the process of integration of immigrants, that is, on the extent to which immigrants will become part of the Swedish society on equal terms. Our research program focuses on investigating these processes in essential areas of life: geographical residence and housing, family formation, labour market participation, educational careers, and social security. We take a longitudinal view on migration and study the patterns and processes from a life-course perspective. We concentrate on migrants who arrived in Sweden during the past twenty to thirty years and follow their life trajectories from their arrival in Sweden to the present.
Contrary to most previous research, we regard integration as a cross-cutting multi-dimensional process in which developments in one life domain influence developments in others, and in which environmental changes affect life-course processes and their interlinkages. The core of our research is thus devoted to analyzing the interrelationships between the processes in different life domains and to assess the patterns and outcomes for different migrant groups, including refugees and children of immigrants. Our studies make use of Swedish register data which cover the entire resident population of Sweden. They provide a unique source of data to study life trajectories across different life domains and from different perspectives. State-of-the-art as well as recently developed methods particularly suited to study trajectories and patterns across different life domains are applied. Our research approach of investigating migration processes from a situated and linked life perspective goes beyond current standard approaches and is likely to produce more profound knowledge about the processes of migrants’ integration.
Project members
Project managers
Bo Malmberg
Professor
Members
Eva Andersson
Professor
Gunnar Andersson
Professor of Demography
Siddartha Aradhya
Researcher, Docent
Ida Borg
Researcher
Maria Brandén
Researcher, Docent
Erik Carlsson
Researcher
Helen Eriksson
Researcher
Karen Haandrikman
Professor
Juta Kawalerowicz
Senior Lecturer
Samaneh Khaef
PhD student
Hernan Mondani
Researcher, Docent in Sociology
Andrea Fuentes Monti
Researcher
Eleonora Mussino
Researcher, Docent
Gerda Neyer
Researcher
Caroline Uggla
Researcher
Matthew Wallace
Researcher, Docent
Rosa Weber
Acting Lecturer
Ben Wilson
Researcher, Docent
Charlotta Hedberg
Professor
Marianne Tønnessen
Research professor
Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva
Associate Professor