Research Agenda for the Swedish National Research Programme Within Migration and Integration
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Research agenda for the Swedish national research programme within migration and integration Strengthening research to meet societal challenges 142018 Research agenda for the Swedish national research programme within migration and integration Strengthening research to meet societal challenges VR1814 Dnr 2017-05882-20 ISBN 978-91-88943-25-5 Swedish Research Council Box 1035 SE-101 38 Stockholm, Sweden Contents Foreword .................................................................................................................. 6 Summary .................................................................................................................. 7 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 9 2. Background ....................................................................................................... 11 2.1 Swedish Research Council’s assignment ........................................................ 11 2.2 Background of the assignment ........................................................................ 12 2.3 Definitions of key terms ................................................................................. 13 2.4 Role and importance of research .................................................................... 14 2.5 Goals of the national programme .................................................................... 15 2.6 The national programme’s path to goal attainment ........................................ 15 2.7 Examples of grant types and activities............................................................ 17 3. Challenges and research needs related to migration and integration .................................................................................................................................. 19 3.1 The current migration and integration situation in Sweden and abroad ......... 19 3.2 Expressed national and international research needs ...................................... 26 3.2.1 Expressed research needs concerning global issues ......................... 26 3.2.2 Expressed research needs related to European issues ..................... 28 3.2.3 Expressed research needs related to Nordic issues ........................... 31 3.2.4 Expressed research needs related to Swedish issues ........................ 33 3.3 Input from the dialogue meeting organized by the research programme ........ 34 3.3.1 What are the key challenges in migration and integration, both today and in the future, and in which areas should research be conducted? .................................................................................................... 35 3.3.2 How can research be communicated to practitioners and how can researchers better utilise knowledge from practitioners? ........................ 36 3.4 Current Sweden-based research in migration and integration ........................ 36 3.4.1 Approach .............................................................................................. 37 3.4.2 Characteristics of current Sweden-based research .......................... 37 3.5 Input from the Scientific Council and committee ........................................... 38 3.6 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 39 4. Existing initiatives and actors ...................................................................... 40 4.1 Research funding ............................................................................................ 40 4.1.1 Research funding in Sweden .............................................................. 40 4.1.2 Research funding in Europe ............................................................... 42 4.2 Promoting the accessibility and dissemination of research findings .............. 44 4.2.1 Initiatives to promote the accessibility and dissemination of research results. ............................................................................................ 45 4.2.2 Actors who work to promote accessibility and dissemination of research on migration and integration ....................................................... 47 Research agenda for the Swedish national research programme within 5 migration and integration 4.3 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 51 5. Conclusions and design of the research programme ............................ 53 5.1 Summary conclusions ..................................................................................... 53 5.1.1 Challenges and knowledge needs ....................................................... 53 5.1.2 Other initiatives in the area ................................................................ 54 5.2 Design and focus of the research programme ................................................. 55 6. Follow-up and evaluation ............................................................................... 58 6.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 58 6.2 Focus and approach for follow-up .................................................................. 58 6.3 Focus and approach for evaluation ................................................................. 61 References ............................................................................................................. 63 Appendix 1: Consideration of referral responses ....................................... 69 Referral process .................................................................................................... 69 Received responses ............................................................................................... 69 Appendix 2: The Swedish Research Council’s types of grants ............... 71 Appendix 3: Migration and Integration – a Research Overview .............. 75 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 75 Pragmatic choices ................................................................................................. 75 Approach .............................................................................................................. 77 IMER field of research ......................................................................................... 78 Research environments in Sweden ....................................................................... 80 Research centres ........................................................................................... 80 Research teams ............................................................................................. 82 Research themes and knowledge production within these.................................... 82 Research on international migration .......................................................... 83 Research on policy and regulations ............................................................ 86 Labour market and housing market research ........................................... 89 Research on public institutions and participation in democracy ............. 94 Research on media, culture and identity .................................................. 100 An international scientific journal as reference point ......................................... 101 Conclusions and discussion ................................................................................ 102 References .......................................................................................................... 104 Research agenda for the Swedish national research programme within 6 migration and integration Foreword The Swedish Research Council has been tasked by the Government to establish a ten-year national research programme within migration and integration. The purpose of the research programme is to create good conditions for research to contribute to meeting societal challenges related to migration and integration. (For more information on the research programme, please see www.vr.se/NFPmigint) The national research programme will be conducted based on a coordinating and strategic research agenda. The purpose of the research agenda is to investigate and analyse how the national research programme within migration and integration should be designed. The strategic research agenda will be regularly updated. This document comprises the first research agenda and the Swedish Research Council intends to return with more information about how the research agenda will be updated. The strategic research agenda was written by Gustav Hansson, PhD, and Monica Svantesson, PhD. Gustav Peterson, PhD and Caroline Olsson assisted in the production of the agenda. (All are employed with the Swedish Research Council). A research overview written by Associate Professor Per Strömblad and Amanda Nielsen, PhD at Linnaeus University serves as supporting documentation for the research agenda. The research overview is provided as an appendix. Feedback on the strategic research agenda was collected from researchers, practitioners and decision- makers in e.g. public administration and civil society, who work with issues in the area of migration and integration. Input on the design and contents of the research agenda were also collected at a dialogue meeting on 23 November 2017 and via a referral process at the end of May and beginning of June 2018. The design and contents of the research agenda