Migration and immigration experts

Looking to understand the complexities of migration, integration, and labor market inclusion? Researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics can offer perspectives ranging from workplace inclusion to migration policy design.

Anton Ahlén

Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Migration policy and the design of migration regimes across European countries over time, with a particular focus on family migration and irregular migration
  • Public attitudes towards migration and migrants’ rights
  • The interaction between migration, integration, and welfare state institutions
  • Migrants’ (including irregular migrants’) access to welfare entitlements in Sweden

Email: anton.ahlen@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Olle Hammar

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Migration and Integration Research; Affiliated Researcher, SSE Institute for Research and House of Governance and Public Policy

Areas of expertise:

  • Migration aspirations, destination choices, and potential migration flows
  • The role of social networks and policy intervention in immigrant integration
  • How migration experiences and social interactions shape values, attitudes, and economic outcomes

Email: olle.hammar@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)704 359 307
Languages: English, Swedish

Sofi Jansson-Keshavarz

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Migration law, asylum policy, and temporary protection regimes
  • The role of municipalities and welfare practitioners in shaping access to permanent residency and family reunification
  • How welfare state policy and practice (e.g. housing, education, language) shape legal precarity and residence permit trajectories
  • The consequences and effects of language requirements and testing
  • The intersection of migration governance, racialization, and welfare policy in Sweden

Email: sofi.jansson.keshavarz@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Lin Lerpold

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • How and why migration and integration must be understood in a systemic perspective to achieve sustainable integration
  • How migration regimes and categories of immigration impact integration outcomes
  • How different forms of social networks facilitate successful integration
  • How institutional logics and business models together impact forced labor and modern slavery
  • Social sustainability, business models and human rights

Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42
Languages: English, Swedish

Andrea Monti

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Emigration from Sweden, return migration, and onward mobility
  • Who leaves and why: migration patterns, selection, and demographic consequences
  • Integration trajectories and occupational gender segregation
  • Register-based research on migration and population dynamics

Email: andrea.monti@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Sarah Philipson Isaac

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Labor exploitation and working conditions in subcontracting chains, particularly in the construction sector
  • How migration policy and border regimes shape precarity, labor market segmentation, and workers’ rights
  • Asylum policy, welfare state transformations, and the political economy of migration — including how welfare systems can produce exclusion alongside protection, and how time and waiting are used as instruments of control
  • Carcerality and asylum: the use of detention, confinement, and coercive measures in migration governance
  • Racism in education and public institutions

Email: sarah.philipson.isaac@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Laurence Romani

Professor, Department of Management and Organization

Areas of expertise:

  • The integration of immigrants in European societies and in the workplace
  • Skilled immigrants' inclusion in the Swedish labor market

Email: Laurence.Romani@hhs.se
Phone: +46 8 736 94 82
Languages: English, Swedish, French, Dutch

Örjan Sjöberg

Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Chaired Professor, Department of Economics; Affiliated Professor, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Migration, labor markets, and urban development in a global and comparative perspective
  • How business models, migration policies, and institutional structures shape labor market outcomes and inequality
  • Urbanization, regional development, and sustainability in a political economy perspective

Email: orjan.sjoberg@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Paolo Velásquez

Affiliated Researcher, SSE Institute for Research; Affiliated Researcher, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Prejudice, stigma, and the integration and inclusion of migrants in the labor market and society

Email: paolo.velasquez@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish, Spanish

Karl Wennberg

Professor, Department of Management and Organization; Scientific Director, House of Governance and Public Policy; Affiliated Professor, Center for Migration and Integration Research

Areas of expertise:

  • Entrepreneurship, labor markets, and economic integration
  • Organizational diversity, leadership and institutional change
  • Education, inequality, and public policy

Email: karl.wennberg@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)70 510 53 66
Languages: English, Swedish