My research interests are mainly within the anthropology of migration, with a special focus on refugees and diasporic practices. I am also interested in social memory, gender and home in relation to violent political conflict and flight. My most recent research focuses on the encounters between newly arrived Palestinian refugees and staff at the Swedish Public Employment Service. I am in particularly interested in how the refugees’ experiences of violence are dealt with in those meetings and in the moral issues and bureaucratic strategies that emerge.
I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Gothenburg. My doctoral thesis from 2009 builds on a one-year ethnographic fieldwork in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. In short, the thesis dealt with the many ways that the camp inhabitants tried to maintain continuity, morality and a normal order despite repeated emergencies during the second intifada. I have also done research about Danes and Swedes with a Palestinian background and their diasporic practices, while being a post doc at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. In addition, I have carried out fieldwork in UN-run schools for Palestinian refugee children, focusing on processes of gendered identity formations. I have also worked as a researcher and teacher at the Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1101 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8929-7239 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
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Lund University Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten
University, Lund, Sweden
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology -
Lund University
University, Lund, Sweden
Senior Lecturer in Social ANthropology -
Lund University
University, Lund, Sweden
Assistant professor -
Lund University Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten
University, Lund, Sweden
Research
The Politics of Suffering: Syria's Palestinian Refugee Camps. Nell Gabiam. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. 208 pp.
| Authors | NINA GREN |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | American Ethnologist |
Unruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank
| Authors | Nina Gren |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Nidaba | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Immigrants on the outside of society
| Authors | Nina Gren |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Being at Home Through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinians’ Houses in the West Bank
| Authors | Nina Gren |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unmasking the Impact of Bureaucratic Violence
| Authors | Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Mission Impossible? The Moral Discomfort of Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees’
| Authors | Nina Gren, Nerina Weiss |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Nordic Welfare Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Reviews
| Authors | Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Nina Gren, Kaisa Nissi, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |