UUniFI Migration: Migration research – Perspectives and potentials
- Date
- 20 October 2026, 09:00–12:00
- Location
- University Main Building, Sal IX
- Type
- Workshop
- Organiser
- UUniFI Migration
- Contact person
- Olof Åslund
- Language
- English
UUniFI Migration Researcher Workshops: This workshop series brings together researchers at Uppsala University working on different aspects of migration and integration to identify promising directions for future research and opportunities for collaboration across themes, methods, and disciplines.
As part of Uppsala University Future Institutes, UUniFI Migration promotes cross-cutting and innovative research that combines perspectives and competencies from various fields and traditions.
During the autumn and winter, UUniFI Migration will organise a series of workshops to identify promising directions for future research and opportunities to collaborate across themes, methods and disciplines.
This is the first workshop in the series.
Visit our event calendar for upcoming seminars and workshops in the series. The calendar is continuously updated, please check back regularly for new events, or sign up to our newsletter and we will let you know.
20 October 2026:
Migration research: Perspectives and potentials
Understanding migration requires different perspectives, methods, and ways of framing questions. This seminar explores what can be gained by bringing diverse research traditions into conversation and by creating new connections and directions for future research.
Programme
09:00–12:00
Migration Law and X? Experiences from Interdisciplinary Migration Research, Including a Legal Perspective
Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law
Beyond Detecting Migration: Towards an Integrated Approach to Migration Mechanisms
Karl-Johan Lindholm, Professor of Archaeology
Between the Clinic and the Suburb: Existential Concerns in Times of Crisis
Önver Cetrez, Professor of Psychology of Religion
Immigrant integration
Matz Dahlberg, Professor in Economics
The workshop will be held in English and will also provide information about the support available from UUniFI for research on migration and integration.
Seats are limited, please register no later than 15 October.
On UUniFI Migration
UUniFI Migration is part of the University of Uppsala’s Future Institute, UUniFI. UUniFI supports researchers who address societal challenges through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary world-class research.
The initiative spans the full breadth of the University of Uppsala, bringing new perspectives and contributing new knowledge to the most complex issues of our time.