Nina Carlsson

Short presentation

My main research interests are citizenship, civic integration, language policy, migration, minority policy, bordering, the far right, and repatriation/deportation. In my ongoing research, I primarily investigate how states assess individuals' language skills, behaviors and values as part of their citizenship/border politics. I teach international politics and supervise undergraduate theses in political science.

Keywords

• migration
• citizenship
• national minorities
• far right
• civic integration
• bordering
• linguistic justice

Biography

I have previously worked at Södertörn University, the University of Vienna, and Karl Franzens-University in Graz. I have been visiting scholar at the Migration Institute of Finland, Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, Copenhagen University, Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen’s University, ON, Canada, and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.

During the fall term 2025, I am visiting researcher at the European University Institute in Florence.

Research

I am the PI of the following projects: Everyday bordering through language requirements in multilingual cities (Swedish Research Council international postdoc 2023-2025) and How to draw a cultural border: The introduction of citizenship testing in Finland and Sweden (Kone Foundation 2025-2030).