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Social Institutions, Political Governance, and Integration of Refugees, SIPGI
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Publications

On this page we will gather project related publications.

Peer reviewed articles

2025

Jung, A., & Spehar, A. (2025). State-sanctioned uncertainty: governing the labour market participation of Syrian refugees in Adana, Irbid and Gothenburg. Review of International Political Economy, 1–23. 

2023

Alexander Jung, Ezgi Irgil, Isabell Schierenbeck & Andrea Spehar (2023). Navigating through depoliticisation: international stakeholders and refugee reception in Jordan and Turkey, Third World Quarterly.

Schierenbeck, Isabell, Andrea Spehar and Tareq Naseef. Newly arrived migrants meet street-level bureaucrats in Jordan, Sweden, and Turkey: Client perceptions of satisfaction–dissatisfaction and response strategies, Migration Studies, 2023.

2021

Spehar, Andrea (2021). Navigating Institutions for Integration: Perceived Institutional Barriers of Access to the Labour Market among Refugee Women in Sweden. Journal of Refugee Studies.

Working Papers

2023

(SIPGI WP No.1) Analyzing the Multidimensionality of Syrian Refugee Integration at the Urban Level Through Everyday Life Experiences and Perceptions by Z. Ezgi Haliloglu Kahraman (pdf)
(SIPGI WP No. 2) The Impact of Institutions on Syrian Refugees in Jordan by Walid Alkhatib and Kaitlin Cox (pdf)
(SIPGI WP No.3) Preferences for Refugee Settlement by Oguzhan Turkoglu (PDF) (pdf)
(SIPGI WP No.4) “But you do not 'look' Syrian?” Experiences of Syrians in urban areas of Sweden by Josepha Wessels (PDF) (pdf)
(SIPGI WP No.5) Labour Market Integration for Refugees. Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Perspectives on Policy Implementation Gaps in Sweden (PDF) (pdf)
Akbiyik, Ahmet and Ferree, Karen E. and Kao, Kristen, Preferences for Segregation? A Study of Migrants and Hosts in Adana, Turkey (pdf)

Policy Reports

2023

A Multidimensional Understanding of Syrian Refugees' Integration in Jordan, Turkey, and Sweden (2021-2022) By Mina Ghassaban, Iman Abu Zueiter, Sinamis Doughouz and Kristen Kao (pdf)

Books

Schierenbeck, Isabell & Andrea Spehar (2021). Migration i välfärdsstaten.  Studentlitteratur.

Policy Briefs

Policy Briefs

Newly Arrived Migrants’ Experiences of Encounters with Frontline Bureaucrats (pdf)
Nyanländas upplevelser av möten med frontlinjebyråkrater (pdf)
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