Projektmedel till IBF

FAS (Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap), ger 2 miljoner per år för perioden 2010–2015, till projektet "Mångfaldens dilemman: Etnisk integration och segregation i staden". Projektledare: Roger Andersson. Programmet involverar forskare och doktorander inom IBF:s fyra kärnområden: kulturgeografi, nationalekonomi, sociologi och statsvetenskap.

Abstract
Welfare states in today’s multicultural societies are confronted with several dilemmas: between the objective to promote equality and freedom for the individual, and to fulfil certain collective interests and goals; between policy strategies that are universal, and strategies that target only members of certain categories of the population; between the ambition of the state to promote integration within the community of citizens – demos – and to tolerate, or even promote, that citizens also enjoy membership in different ethnic communities – ethnos.

The focus of the present research programme is on concrete expressions of these dilemmas in an urban context. Key research themes include: residential segregation and integration; policies regarding settlement, dispersal and social mixing; urban governance and area-based interventions; neighbourhood effects; ethnic associations and political inclusion; theoretical and conceptual development.

The programme draws on research on ethnic relations, residential segregation, metropolitan policies and local political participation developed at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF), Uppsala University, since the mid-1990s. This line of research at the institute is mainly represented by human geographers and political scientists, but the programme group also includes economists, sociologists and an anthropologist. Over the years, this group has produced research on migration and ethnic diversity of high international quality within a series of important research projects funded by both national and European financing sources.

The programme will further strengthen this research by providing strategic funding for PhD students; giving opportunities for PhDs without a permanent position at the institute to develop new research projects; reinforcing multidisciplinary exchange and external collaborations through seminars, workshops and invited guest researchers; and promoting research dissemination.