Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges

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. The book aims to provide a background to the future of migration, both in relation to the labour market and to society. It will be relevant to multi-stakeholders, students, and scholars interested in migration and integration as well as in the economic and social impact of Covid-19. 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 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. .

Introduction to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World -- The Shape of Things to Come: International Migration in the 21st X Century -- New Perspectives on Migrant Transnationalism in the Pandemic Era -- Cosmopolitanism and Welfare Chauvinism in Sweden -- Binds and Bridges to Protection in Crisis: The Case of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth from Afghanistan in Sweden -- The Tricky Thing of Implementing Migration Policies: Insights from Return Policies in Sweden -- Migration, Trade Unions and the Re-making of Social Inclusion: The Case of Territorial Union Engagement in France, Italy and Spain -- Swedish Trade Unions and Migration: Challenges and Responses -- Unemployed Marginalised Immigrant Women: Work Integrating Social Enterprises as a Possible Solution -- Skill Requirements and Employment of Immigrants in Swedish Hospitality -- Ethnic Discrimination During the Covid-19 Pandemic -- Model Minority and Honorary White? Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden -- Loyalty and Integration among Young Adults with Minority Backgrounds in Norway -- Immigrant Integration and Vaccine Hesitancy among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm -- Conclusion to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World.