Family, Migration and Welfare (FAMIW)

Our studies address topics such as the vulnerable position and experiences of migrants in different parts of the world, how care and intimate relationships are changing, and the development of family and labour market policy reforms in Sweden and beyond.

While our theoretical approaches vary, we share an interest in social inequality and how it is created and sustained (social stratification), particularly as explored within feminist, queer and postcolonial studies.

We use a wide range of research methods, including qualitative methods such as ethnography, document analysis and life history interviews, as well as mixed and quantitative methods.

At our meetings, we discuss not only empirical and theoretical questions, but also new research methods and methodological issues.

The group meets at least once a month, and sometimes every other week, to review each other’s research at different stages, from initial ideas to full paper drafts. Our seminars bring together researchers from the department and external guests.

Selected Projects

Larger projects within the environment/group include:

• RUT tax deductions for the elderly: New conditions for care practices (Forte, PI Terese Anving). 
• Changing gender and class relations in the wake of RUT and ROT usage (Forte, PI: Lisa Eklund).
• Occupied Intimacies: Borderization in Palestine, Georgia and Western Sahara” (VR, PI: Nina Gren).

Contact

• Terese Anving, terese [dot] anving [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se

Selected publications

• Unmasking the Impact of Bureaucratic Violence. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 39 (2), 1-13. Gren, N., Abdelhady, D., & Joormann, M. (2024). 
• Grandchildhood: Care and relationality in narratives of three generations in Sweden. Childhood, 31(1), 120-137. Eldén, S., Anving, T., & Alenius Wallin, L. (2024).
• Gender Asymmetries in Cross-National Couples. Population and Development Review, 49(2), 379-396. Esteve, A., Elwert, A., & Batyra, E. (2023). 
• Population Control and Sex-Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalisation. I M. Dawson, & S. Mobayed Vega (Red.), The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide. Routledge. Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2023). 
• Social Infrastructure and the Alleviation of Loneliness in Europe. Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Swader, C., & Moraru, A.-V. (2023).
• Postcolonial States and Migration. I Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration (s. 38-51). Routledge. Boeyink, C., & Turner, S. (2023).
• Parental leave reforms in South Korea, 1995-2021. Policy translation and institutional legacies. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, (30), 4: 1113-1136. Kim, Yeonjin & Lundqvist, Åsa (2023)