Welcome to apply to the doctoral course Theories of Citizenship, Civil Society and Integration, which is part of The Swedish Research Council’s Graduate School in Migration and Integration.
The course starts online with a brief meeting online on the 14th of April and lasts until the 23rd of May 2025 with one intensive on-campus week at the University of Gothenburg 5 - 9 May. Accommodation is covered for PhD students admitted to the course and travelling to Gothenburg.
Applications via the link below before 28 February 2025 https://fubasextern.gu.se/fubasextern/info?kurs=SC30020
Course Description
The course provides a survey of and examines key theoretical debates around citizenship, integration and civil society. Citizenship rights vary with tensions around and between formal rights, structures that grant or deny rights, and substantial rights that refer to security, prejudice and mechanisms enforcing citizenship rights. We analyse post-national, supranational, cosmopolitan and transnational citizenship models – beyond and below the level of the nation-state and models of integration. Integration, a much-critiqued concept, used for processes of inclusion, participation and incorporation and often referring to migrants, refugees and their descendants is increasingly contingent on demonstrating indicators of integration for instance speaking a language, getting a job etc., and related to citizenship. Perspectives and governance models of incorporation, ideal typical models, at supranational, national and local levels are also analysed. Thus, the course will problematize and analyse different perspectives and models of citizenship, integration and incorporation alongside their exclusive and inclusive features, highlighting intersections between migration class/ethnicity/gender and racialization.
Theories and perspectives are also examined in relation to the voluntary non-profit sector or civil society, and how civil society works to expand rights, compensate for shortcomings of the welfare state also addressing its exclusionary mechanisms. International and comparative case studies are used to explore the action-oriented nature of citizenship, the role of civil society in conditions of socioeconomic challenge and diversity, theories of social capital, actors, actions, activities, challenges, innovations, and ways of working to enhancing opportunities and mitigating challenges.
Confirmed lecturers:
- Gabriella Elgenius, Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg,
- Kerstin Jacobsson, Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg.
- Juta Kawalerowicz, Senior Lecturer, University of Stockholm.
- Anders Neergard, Professor of Sociology, REMESO, Linköping University.
- Jenny Phillimore, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham.
- Peter Scholten, Professor of Migration and Diversity Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
More info here: https://www.gu.se/en/study-gothenburg/theories-of-citizenship-civil-society-and-integration
Contacts:
Postgraduate Studies Administrator: Irene Carlensberg,
Course Director: Gabriella Elgenius,