Social Movements, Environment, Migration
The Social Movements, Environment and Migration (SMEM) research group investigates civic and political engagement and protest movements, environmental issues from a societal perspective, and key aspects of migration and integration processes. We study social processes related to the relationship between humans and nature, and the consequences of international migration for both individual migrants and the communities of which they form part.
About the research group
Key research questions
The research group members work on issues relating to, amongst other things, environmental activism and local, national and transnational political and civic engagement and advocacy. We also explore different perspectives on migration and diverse societies by studying migration processes, migration-related inequality and exclusion, as well as different perspectives on conflict, integration and participation in diverse societies.
We conduct both qualitative and quantitative analyses of protest and civic engagement, of environmental issues and of migration processes, inequality, integration and conflict in Europe, as well as migration to and from the European continent.
The SMEM-group also investigates how the environment, migration and ethnic relations are linked to social and political mobilisation and change.
People
Group manager
Susanne Bygnes Professor, områdekoordinator
Group members
Thomas Lorentzen Professor
Jan Skrobanek Professor
Hans-Tore Hansen Professor
David Herbert Professor
Lise Widding Isaksen Professor emerita
Hans Marius Eitland Nagy Stipendiat
Julianna Burrill Stipendiat