Migration and immigration experts
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Anton Ahlén, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Migration and Integration Research
Area of expertise:
- Migration policy and the design of migration regimes across European countries over time, with a particular focus on family migration and irregular migration.
- Public attitudes towards migration and migrants’ rights.
- The interaction between migration, integration, and welfare state institutions.
- Migrants’ (including irregular migrants’) access to welfare entitlements in Sweden.
Email: anton.ahlen@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish
, Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Migration and Integration Research; Affiliated Researcher at the 91Ô´´ Institute for Research; Affiliated Researcher at the House of Governance and Public Policy; Assistant Professor at Linnaeus University.
Area of expertise:
- Migration aspirations, destination choices, and potential migration flows.
- The role of social networks and policy intervention in immigrant integration.
- How migration experiences and social interactions shape values, attitudes, and economic outcomes.
Email: olle.hammar@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0) 704359307
Languages: English, Swedish
, Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Migration and Integration Research.
Area of expertise:
- Migration law, asylum policy, and temporary protection regimes.
- The role of municipalities and welfare practitioners in shaping access to permanent residency and family reunification.
- How welfare state policy and practice (e.g. housing, education, language) shape legal precarity and residence permit trajectories.
- The consequences and effects of language requirements and testing.
- The intersection of migration governance, racialization, and welfare policy in Sweden.
Email: sofi.jansson.keshavarz@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish
Lin Lerpold, Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director of the Center for Migration and Integration Research, Center and Research Director of the Center for Sustainability Research; Vice Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab
Area of expertise:
- How and why migration and integration must be understood in a systemic perspective to achieve sustainable integration.
- How migration regimes and categories of immigration impact integration outcomes.
- How different forms of social networks facilitate successful integration.
- How institutional logics and business models together impact forced labor and modern slavery.
- Social sustainability, business models and human rights.
Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42
Languages: English, Swedish
, Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Migration and Integration Research; Affiliated Researcher at the 91Ô´´ Institute for Research; Postdoctoral Researcher at Mälardalen University.
Area of expertise:
- Emigration from Sweden, return migration, and onward mobility.
- Who leaves and why: migration patterns, selection, and demographic consequences.
- Integration trajectories and occupational gender segregation.
- Register-based research on migration and population dynamics.
Email: andrea.monti@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish
, Postdoc Fellow at the Center for Migration and Integration Research
Area of expertise:
- Labor exploitation and working conditions in subcontracting chains, particularly in the construction sector.
- How migration policy and border regimes shape precarity, labor market segmentation, and workers’ rights.
- Asylum policy, welfare state transformations, and the political economy of migration — including how welfare systems can produce exclusion alongside protection, and how time and waiting are used as instruments of control.
- Carcerality and asylum: the use of detention, confinement, and coercive measures in migration governance.
- Racism in education and public institutions.
Email: sarah.philipson.isaac@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish
Laurence Romani, professor at the Department of Management and Organization, affiliated researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets, Director of the Center for Responsible Leadership
Area of expertise:
- The integration of immigrants in European societies and in the workplace.
- Skilled immigrants' inclusion in the Swedish labor market.
Email: Laurence.Romani@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 94 82
Languages: English, Swedish, French, Dutch
, Professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy; Chaired Professor at the Department of Economics; Affiliated Professor at the Center for Migration and Integration Research; Research Director of the ´Center for Sustainability Research.
Area of expertise:
- Migration, labor markets, and urban development in a global and comparative perspective.
- How business models, migration policies, and institutional structures shape labor market outcomes and inequality.
- Urbanization, regional development, and sustainability in a political economy perspective.
Email: orjan.sjoberg@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish
Paolo Velásquez, Affiliated Researcher at the 91Ô´´ Institute for Research (SIR); Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Migration and Integration Research; Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Responsible Leadership; Postdoc Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Area of expertise:
- Prejudice, stigma, and the integration and inclusion of migrants in the labor market and society.
Email: paolo.velasquez@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish, Spanish
, Chaired Professor at the Department of Management and Organization, Scientific Director of the House of Governance and Public Policy, Head of the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence, Head of the KAB Center for Governance, Professor at the Center for Resilient Health, Research Fellow at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, Affiliated Professor at the Center for Migration and Integration Research
Area of expertise:
- Entrepreneurship, labor markets, and economic integration.
- Organizational diversity, leadership and institutional change.
- Education, inequality, and public policy.
Email: karl.wennberg@hhs.se
Tel:+46 (0)70 510 53 66
Languages: English, Swedish