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I am a senior lecturer in social work at the Department of Social Work, Malmö University. My main research areas include critical migration studies, community work and participatory perspectives. I currently give a course on community work and mobilization in close collaboration with civil society actors, and I am working in a research project together with Rosengårds Folkets Hus on foreign born parents’ experiences in contact with schools.

Research Themes

The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…

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Green and Just Cities is a new theme within the IUR which aims to highlight and contribute to a deeper understanding of the physical geographical and ecological dimensions of urban justice. The theme provides a bridge between urban studies and environmental studies by examining the multiple ways the natural and built environments are co-constitutive, and…

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