Migration and Labour Market Integration
7,5 ECTS
Information
Course leaders: Maja Cederberg and Andrea Spehar
Duration: 1 October - 3 November 2025; On-campus week in Gothenburg 13-17 October, 2025.
Location: Online and University 91̽»¨
Language: English
Study pace: 100%
Application period: 4 April 2025 - 8 August 2025
Course Description
This course is about migration, work and labour market integration. The search for higher wages and better employment opportunities form important motivations for migration, and migrant labour plays a key role in many economies and societies. While migrants tend to be disproportionately exposed to exploitation and poor working conditions, it is important to recognise the diverse ways in which migrants are incorporated into labour markets, ranging from low-paid jobs and precarious positions to well-paid and highly qualified employment. The course will look at different patterns of migrants’ employment incorporation and attend to the factors that shape them. This includes social divisions and inequalities linked to gender, class and processes of racialisation, as well as the role played by migration policies in shaping employment opportunities, conditions and rights for different groups and categories of migrants. Furthermore, migrants’ employment integration needs to be understood in the context of how labour markets transform. Students will engage with concepts such as flexibilisation, precariarisation, upskilling, deskilling and polarisation, and gain an understanding of how migration processes and labour market processes intersect. The course will address these issues at different levels: at the labour market and broader societal level, the organizational level, and at the micro-level, by considering migrants’ experiences and how they negotiate the barriers and opportunities they encounter.
Course Lecturers
Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University
Maja Cederberg, University 91̽»¨
Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University
Branka Likic-Brboric, Linköping University
Vedran Omanovic, University 91̽»¨
Andrea Spehar, University 91̽»¨
Ylva Wallinder, University 91̽»¨
How to Apply
Application period: 4 April 2025 - 11 August 2025
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For further information contact the course leaders: Maja Cederberg and Andrea Spehar
About the Graduate School in Migration and Integration
- Our Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students.
- 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping, Linköping University or at SOCAV & CGM, University 91̽»¨.
- All courses are taught in English.
- Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
- Accommodation is provided for free to all PhD students who are admitted to our courses.
