Migration and Labour Market Integration Course
7,5 ECTS
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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 of Gothenburg
Language: English
Study pace: 100%
Application period: 4 April 2025 - 8 August 2025
Course discription
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.
For further details about the course and how to apply, please visit the following link: https://www.gu.se/en/study-gothenburg/migration-and-labour-market-integration
Theories of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Racism: Historical and Contemporary Debates Course
7,5 ECTS
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Course leaders: Stefan Jonsson and Peo Hansen
Duration: 17 November – 19 December; On-campus week in Norrköping, 1–5 December
Location: Hybrid. On-campus week in Norrköping, 1-5 December. Accommodation in Norrköping is covered for all PhD students who are admitted to the course.
Language: English
Study pace: 100%
Application deadline: 3 November 2025
Course Description
The course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking and debates on ethnicity and nationalism. This includes questions of national and ethnic identification and mobilization as well as theories on multiculturalism. Drawing on contemporary, historical and comparative examples, the course engages with different understandings of ethnic solidarities, nationhood and citizenship. Students also explore more recent debates on supranationalism, cosmopolitanism, populism and the post- and transnational. Much emphasis is put on the ways in which both historical and contemporary notions of nation, the nation-state and ethnicity need to be re-thought and re-historicized when confronted with issues of migration, empire, coloniality, gender and class. Questions of methodology are also highlighted, addressing methodological nationalism, methodological Eurocentrism and other forms of tacit methodological assumptions that have influenced research. In this way, the course aims to stimulate and enhance students’ ability to carry out empirical research.
For further details about the course and how to apply, please visit the following link: https://www.gu.se/en/study-gothenburg/theories-of-ethnicity-nationalism-and-racism-historical-and-contemporary-debates