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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg
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Comics and zines and sound collages and serious games, oh my! Arts-based methods for migration and integration in research, teaching, and collaboration with practitioners : Presentation of four pieces of arts-based work at Arts-based and Artistic Research in Migration and Integration Workshop, Malmö University, May 21-22, 2024.
- 2024
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This presentation provides a rapid overview of four recent projects where arts-based methods shed light on migration and integration dynamics in research, teaching and practitioner collaboration. Messages from Ukraine is an example of comics-based research in which the words of Ukrainians from the opening weeks of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine are transformed into brief short graphic vignettes, allowing readers to more directly engage with the experiences of others. RE/DOCUMENTING MIGRATION & INTEGRATION is a zine showcasing blackout poetry, cut-up, collages and other arts-based methods as used by a diverse group of early career migration professionals from Eastern Europe to reflect on their profession and migration/integration challenges facing their countries. Soundscape Reading Reflection Response is an audio collage exploring how international university students grappled with the question: What do migration and integration sound like? It features soundscapes recorded across the world in answer to this question, the voices of students reading quotes from research literature and reflections on the process. At The Crossroads is a serious game collaboratively developed by forcibly displaced Ukrainians and a migration researcher, immersing players in real-life experiences of displaced Ukrainians refugees and displaced persons, emphasizing difficult choices they face. Through the visual elements of the game board and details provided in the scenario book, the game serves as an important platform for initiating dialogue about the consequences of forced displacement during wartime. Underlying these projects is an emphasis on arts-based methods as a setting where learning by doing and collaboration are guiding principles.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden But Not in Finland
- 2014
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In: Showden C. R. / Majic S. (Eds) Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. - 9780816689590 ; , s. 195-217
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For scholars of sex work, Sweden’s decision to criminalize the purchase, albeit not the sale, of sexual services in 1999 represents a legislative development that has been the subject of considerable analysis. However, scholars have directed comparatively less effort towards analyzing similar reform processes in neighboring Nordic countries, where prostitution policy reform has also been a subject of great public debate in recent years. Alongside the Swedish experience, Finland’s 2006 revision of its prostitution policies stands out as particularly intriguing. On the face of it, the Finnish reform represented an expanded use of criminalization as a policy tool, with the ban on purchasing sex from trafficked individuals joining existing legislation prohibiting buying or selling sexual services in public places. Yet, what makes the Finnish case analytically tantalizing is that Finnish legislators rejected the Swedish prostitution model. Such an outcome was far from a given, particularly given strong support for CPSS among Finnish policymakers in the early 2000s. Against this backdrop, this chapter examines the paths leading to divergent prostitution policy reform in Sweden and Finland in the 1990s and 2000s. Why did Sweden wind up with a CPSS ban, but not Finland? In keeping with the ideational literature in comparative politics, we focus attention on both the ideas that were relevant in each setting, and the extent to which actors were able to draw upon these ideas in pushing for policy reform, or the extent to which competing ideas blocked legislative success. Our argument is as follows: In the case of Sweden, feminist actors across the political spectrum who supported the ban successfully deployed gender equality ideas as well as causal stories characterizing female prostitutes as having abusive life histories in a number of crucial settings, including party congresses, parliamentary debates, official documents, and statements to the press. Pro-ban actors benefited from the degree to which gender equality ideas were more broadly embedded in Swedish political institutions by the early and mid-1990s, the result of long-term efforts by Swedish feminists. No such pervasive discourse involving gender equality ideas existed in Finnish society or its political institutions. While some feminists there pushed for CPSS from the 1990s onwards, they were confronted with interest groups, epistemic actors and policymakers who successfully mobilized ideas concerning the rights of individuals to make decisions regarding their own body and sphere of economic activity without state interference. Of equal importance, the Finnish reform process took place against the backdrop of specific concerns that trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes to Finland was growing rapidly and required a firm policy response. As such, the legislative outcome became centered on the need to ensure Finnish compliance with the 2000 UN Palermo Protocol on trafficking in human beings.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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Governing Central and Eastern European Migration in Swedish Municipalities
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In: Государственное управление в XXI веке: материалы 13-й международной конференции, май 2015. Секция 11. Практика регионального и муниципального управления: Российский и зарубежный опыт: [Сборник] / Коллектив авторов — М.: «КДУ», «Университетская книга», 2016.. - 9785913046475 ; , s. 10-18
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration: Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden
- 2019
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years. It focuses on refugees’ interactions with key institutions of integration including language training, civic orientation, validation of previous educational experience, organizations and multiple labour market initiatives targeting refugees. Drawing on interviews with the refugees themselves, it offers a nuanced analysis of how the institutions of integration operate on a daily basis, and the effects they have on the lives of those who take part in them. The authors’ comparative approach highlights the particularities of each refugee movement while also revealing developments and persistent issues within institutions of integration in the intervening years between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian conflicts. Its conclusion, which situates the Swedish case within the broader European context, demonstrates the wider significance of this timely study. It will provide a valuable resource for policymakers in addition to students and scholars of migration studies, social policy, and public policy and business administration.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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Messages from Ukraine
- 2022
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that dominated headlines around the world. Millions of Ukrainians would flee the country, and a third of the population would be displaced. In the days following the invasion, Swedish migration expert Gregg Bucken-Knapp sent text messages to his Ukrainian colleagues, offering support and assistance. These were their responses. In a series of graphic vignettes, Messages from Ukraine takes the words of Ukrainian migration professionals and transforms them into snapshots of how war affects the lives of everyday people: those who are forced to flee home and seek safety elsewhere, those who choose to stay and volunteer or fight, those who witness events unfolding from afar, and those who find themselves trapped in cities under siege. Messages from Ukraine captures a moment in time to tell a timeless story about war, displacement, determination, and resilience.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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No nordic model : Understanding differences in the labour migration policy preferences of mainstream Finnish and Swedish political parties
- 2014
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In: Comparative European Politics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1472-4790 .- 1740-388X. ; 12:6, s. 584-602
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines labour migration policy formation of Finnish and Swedish mainstream parties concerning rules governing non-EU citizen entry, and the debate over transitional arrangements related to the 2004 EU enlargement. In both cases, Sweden stands out as the liberal case. In 2008, Sweden left its previous strict non-EU labour migration policies and implemented Europe's most relaxed regime. Moreover, the country was one of only three EU members not applying any 2004 transitional arrangements. The Finnish experience is markedly different. Strict non-EU citizen immigration policies remain and transitional enlargement arrangements were implemented. Despite this policy variation, the migration policy dividing line among mainstream parties is remarkably similar. Finnish and Swedish Centre-Left parties tend to oppose less restrictive policies, while Centre-Right parties and Greens advocate less restrictive measures. To explore the sources of policy differences, we underline the need to account for ideology in relation to strategy, institutions and national context.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg
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Soundscape Reading Reflection Response (Audio collage: 9 minutes, 28 seconds)
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In: Summer School for Sustainability, University of Gothenburg, July 31, 2023.
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- What do migration and integration sound like? Prior to starting the Managing Migration course in June 2023, university students in fifteen different countries were asked to think about this question and to make short audio recordings of the migration and integration soundscapes they discovered around them. Once in Gothenburg, students made additional recordings – reading quotes from research literature that informed their soundscape recordings, and the reflections that emerged while they continued to develop their thoughts. The resulting audio files have been edited and assembled into an audio collage. The collage plays on a loop. It can be listened to from start to finish, or from any one point to any other point, for as short or as long as you would like. Soundscape: The sounds of migration and integration – documented, experienced, imagined. Multicultural neighborhoods, global cities, hallways in municipal offices, telephone queues at migration agencies, passports, passengers at airports, moments in flight, the soothing sounds of birds singing, crickets chirping and the fall of rain, metro announcements while trains hurtle forward or screech to a stop, checkout counters in grocery stores, solitude and street noise far from home. Small sonic patterns, repeated. Reading: Students encountering academic literature. Articles found, quotes identified, words spoken. Moving from first-hand fieldwork to encounters with scholars expressing the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological. Social exclusion. Inclusivity. Migration infrastructure. Social networks. Diaspora. Migrant loneliness. Social locations. Civil crisis management. Identity. First-generation migration. Mobility dynamics. Refugee settlement phases. Reflection: Articles inspire, leave impressions, open up new perspectives and alternative ways of understanding, reveal unexpected opportunities for making sense of data that is collected or generated. Possibilities emerge to refine and pursue research ideas. Moments of analytical insight, increased understanding of the abstract, continued curiosity about settings, processes and dynamics. Learning. Doing. Making things. Response: In 2024, there will be a chance for you to take part. An opportunity for you to record an anonymous voice message. Soundscapes, a sentence from a journal article, the sensemaking process of a student – what are you thinking now and what is your response to what you have heard? More details to follow, and be sure to visit us at Vetenskapsfestivalen 2024.
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, et al.
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The eye of the beholder: Narrating crisis in the ongoing Swedish labor migration policy debate
- 2015
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In: Korkut, U., Buchen-Knapp, G., Cox, R.H., Mahndran, K. (Eds.). Discursive Governance in Politics, Policy, and the Public Sphere. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. ; , s. 127-144
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg
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Ukrainians residing in Sweden with temporary protection
- 2022
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In: Kapitel i Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell & Lars Nord (red.): "Snabbtänkt 2.0". - Sundsvall : Mittuniversitetet, Demicon. - 9789189341777
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- Bucken-Knapp, Gregg, 1965-
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Varieties of capitalism and labor migration policy
- 2007
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Faced with a declining workforce, why does the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) oppose employer proposals for increased labor migration from non-EU countries? This article explores whether perspectives on policymaking in the varieties of capitalism (VoC) literature can account for this puzzle. VoC scholars maintain that policymakers prefer reforms conforming to the national political economy, improving firm capacity and ensuring better economic performance. Employers are also thought to support policies incentivecompatible with the prevailing model of capitalism. My analysis shows that while the SAP backed labor migration policies compatible with the Swedish coordinated market economy, it did not do so for reasons of efficiency or economic performance. The SAP fears that liberal reform, preferred by employers, will damage the Swedish model, undermine active labor market policies and weaken unions. The case of Swedish labor migration policy underscores how economic reform reflects political conflict and not the desire to preserve equilibrium.
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- Hinnfors, Jonas, 1956, et al.
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Invandring räddar välfärden
- 2004
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In: Svenska Dagbladet, Brännpunkt. ; :2 januari
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- Hinnfors, Jonas, 1956, et al.
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The missing factor: why social democracy can lead to restrictive immigration policy
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In: Journal of European Public Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-1763 .- 1466-4429. ; 19:4, s. 585-603
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- It is puzzling that social democratic parties are rarely the main focus of attention in the migration policy making literature, despite their crucial role in most European party systems and their frequent tenure in government. In this article, we seek to address this shortcoming by examining key immigration policies advocated by the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) over the past 40 years. This article shows that the SAP believes there are distinct limits to the ability of 'the people's home' to make room for immigrants. Given social democracy's clear adherence to notions of solidarity, inclusiveness and internationalism, the empirical findings of this article are counter-intuitive. Specifically, the Swedish Social Democrats have, since the late 1960s, continuously backed, and indeed initiated, strict immigration policies. Party ideology has been the missing factor in understanding these concrete immigration policies.
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- Korkut, Umut, et al.
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Immigration and Integration Policies: Assumptions and Explanations
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In: The discourses and politics of migration in Europe / [edited by] Umut Korkut, Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Aidan McGarry, Jonas Hinnfors, Helen Drake.. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137310897 ; , s. 1-16
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- Nakonechnyi, Andrii, et al.
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At The Crossroads
- 2024
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In: Serious board game.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- At The Crossroads is a serious board game that helps you better understand what everyday life is like for millions of Ukrainians who have fled their homes and experienced forced migration following Russia’s full-scale invasion. Game overview In the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, you are asleep at home in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. You are suddenly woken up by the sounds of air raid sirens and bombing all over the city. Russia’s full-scale war against your country has begun. You’ll need to make it to safety. You’ll rush to the train station and manage to get a spot on a train taking you to Lviv, in western Ukraine. Once there, you’ll either remain in Ukraine and begin life as an internally displaced person or you will head abroad and become a refugee. Whether you stay in Ukraine or go abroad, you’ll face countless hurdles when dealing with the authorities, landlords and members of the local community. Much of what you experience will feel impossibly difficult to handle at times. Yet, through your own resilience and the support of others, you’ll rise to these challenges and slowly start to build a new life in a new wartime reality. There are no winners or losers in this game. Through playing the game and reflecting on that experience with other players, we hope that you will learn something valuable about how the lives of millions of Ukrainians were forever changed in ways both big and small as a result of wartime displacement.
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- Sandgren, Henrik, 1984, et al.
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Avsnitt 13: Migration
- 2022
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In: Förvaltningspodden.
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- När räknas någon som flykting, hur skiljer sig reglerna mellan olika länder, och vilka typer av migration finns det? Går det att vara flykting i sitt eget land? I det här avsnittet pratar vi om asyl, flyktingar, migration, och förstås också om kriget i Ukraina. Medverkande: Andreas Lundstedt, Gregg Bucken-Knapp och Henrik Sandgren.
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- Spehar, Andrea, 1973, et al.
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Passing the Buck. The case of failing multilevel governance and vulnerable EU migrants in Sweden
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In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. - : Helsinki University Press. - 1799-649X. ; 7:2, s. 114-123
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sweden represents an intriguing paradox regarding EU migrant integration. Its welfare state institutions are highly developed; its integration policies have a solid record. Still, a substantial proportion of EU migrants are facing poor working conditions, unemployment and homelessness. This article highlights the ongoing difficulties, both for EU migrants to Sweden, as well as for a broad range of Swedish public actors seeking to devise governance solutions in a frequently ad hoc manner. We argue that while EU migrant integration is a policy challenge reflecting a multilevel setting, there is little evidence that multilevel governance has emerged. Rather, actors at all levels seek instead to shift the responsibilities associated with EU migrant integration to other levels, maintaining that EU migrant integration is beyond their competencies and resource levels. The analysis draws upon public documents and interviews with the key national and local stakeholders
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- Spehar, Andrea, 1973, et al.
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Talking about Integration: The Voices of Syrian Refugees Taking Part in Introduction Programmes for Integration into Swedish Society
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In: International migration. - : Wiley. - 0020-7985 .- 1468-2435. ; 57:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The significant increase in the number of refugees entering the European Union and the low employment rates among them remain pressing issues across Europe. While previous research has mainly focused on refugee integration prospects from the policymakers’ point of view, we shift the analytical focus to how refugees perceive the introduction programme experience, examining the case of Syrian refugees to Sweden. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with Syrian refugees, our results suggest that the quality of language training, the complexity of the validation process for educational qualifications and the lengthy administrative procedures are perceived as important barriers hindering the access of refugees to the Swedish labour market. These barriers are differently perceived, especially by those with differing levels of education. This highlights the utility of an intersectional approach, and the continued need to explore the diversity of migrant experiences when assessing integration policies and programmes.
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- Spehar, Andrea, 1973, et al.
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The Multi-Level Governance of Intra EU Movement
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In: Between Mobility and Migration. The Multi-Level Governance of Intra-European Movement. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319779911 ; , s. 125-140
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Free movement management is a challenge that emerged in a multi-level context, with policies developed at one level having unclear implications for actors working at other levels, and with questions of authority and competencies remaining highly uncertain. Broader issues of national and local contexts, as well as traditional institutional practices, all lay the groundwork for the need of clearly articulated governance solutions. As is clear from previous chapters, the flows of CEE migrants, as well as the social consequences of their presence in urban regions that are often unequipped in both policy and administrative terms, has led to substantial challenges for actors at all levels of government, both public and private, when it comes to free movement management.
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The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools. Thematically, this volume focuses on how discourse and politics operate in issue areas as varied as immigrant integration and multilevel governance, Roma immigration and their respective securitization, the uses of language in determination of asylum applications, gendered immigrants in informal economy, perceptions of integration by the migrants, economic interests and economic nationalism stimulating immigration choices, ideology and entry policies, and asylum processes and the institutional evolution of immigration systems. These issues are analyzed with empirical evidence investigating the discursive formulation of immigration systems in political contexts such as the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Scandinavian states, and Finland.
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