Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World

Lin Lerpold is an Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is also director of the SIR Center for Sustainability Research and vice director of the Sustainable Finance Lab. She was the founding director of the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets and her research focuses on various aspects of social sustainability. 

Örjan Sjöberg is a Professor of Economic Geography in the Dept. of Marketing and Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he is also affiliated with the SIR Center for Sustainability Research. He has a longstanding interest in issues at the intersection of migration, labour markets and urban growth.

Karl Wennberg is a Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and academic director of the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP). His current research deals with processes and outcomes related to organisational diversity, entrepreneurship and innovation policy, and education economics. His work has been published in a range of academic journals and books. 

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four researchers have contributed to this volume with research attention on how COVID-19 has affected transnationalism and identity, labour market employment, and impacted the discrimination of migrants in a variety of ways. Loyalties and tensions created by the need to include also hesitant migrant groups in vaccination programmes are explored. The role of cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in narratives on inward migrations flows, the stance of trade unions on migration, the complexities of implementing return policies, and the challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan are also discussed.