Pieter Bevelander - Biography#

Pieter Bevelander is professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Department of Global political studies and Director of MIM, Malmö Institute of Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Sweden. His main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions of natives towards immigrants and minorities. He has a PhD in economic-history and wrote his thesis (2000) on the employment integration of immigrants in Sweden in the period 1970–1995. A number of his publications include the labour market situation of immigrants in a regional setting and the effects of labour market policy measures directed towards immigrants and refugees in Sweden. Moreover, his research contains the socioeconomic and political impacts of citizenship ascension of immigrants and minorities in host societies and the attitudes of the native population on immigrants and other minority groups. His latest research include voting behavior of immigrants and their children as well as the socio-economic impact of the large refugee intake in Sweden during the last decades.

He has co-edited a number of publications and has reviewed for and published widely in international journals and is currently Associated Editor of International Migration Review (IMR) and in the editorial board of both the Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Studies and associate editor for Comparative Migration Studies. He is a member of the Swedish government commission on Migration DELMI (http://www.delmi.se/en), a member of the Executive Board of the IMISCOE network, a board member of the Metropolis network and Head of the international advisory Board of the Swiss NCCR “On the Move”. He has produced reports on migration and integration for several international organizations like the FRA, OECD, IOM, EU and MPI.