Andrea Spehar

Andrea Spehar is an Associate Professor in the field of Political Science and the Director of the Centre on Global Migration (CGM) at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Spehar’s research interests encompass the fields of migration and migrant integration, with a particular focus on their interrelationship with broader policy and administrative contexts. Her work has been published in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, Citizenship Studies, International Migration and Migration Studies.  Spehar has been the recipient of research funding from a number of national and international funding agencies. She currently serves as the principal investigator for the research programme, “Social Institutions, Political Governance and Integration in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden” (SIPGI, which was established with funding from the Swedish Research Council. Additionally, she is engaged in the H2020 project on housing and integration, entitled “Housing for immigrants and community integration in Europe and beyond”. “Strategies, policies, dwellings, and governance” MERGING. She holds various board and committee positions. Spehar is a coordinator for a ten-year Swedish research programme within migration and integration and Co-Director for the Swedish Social Research Council’s Graduate Programme/Research School for Migration and Integration. She is an editorial board member of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research and International Migration.