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Kazlou, A. & Urban, S. (2023). Swedish migration policy liberalization and new immigrant entrepreneurs. International migration (Geneva. Print), 61(2), 87-106
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Swedish migration policy liberalization and new immigrant entrepreneurs
2023 (English)In: International migration (Geneva. Print), ISSN 0020-7985, E-ISSN 1468-2435, Vol. 61, no 2, p. 87-106Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sweden has allowed immigrants from any country to obtain residence permits for entrepreneurship since 2008. The aim of this study was to explore the outcome of this policy. The study adds time perspective and superdiversity and operationalizes the mixed embeddedness framework to facilitate a quantitative study on three levels of analysis. Detailed register data for two cohorts of immigrants—those who arrived four years before and those who arrived four years after the reform—are used. The results confirm the usefulness of the mixed embeddedness model, that is the institutional regulative context, economic and social context, and individual resources, in the analysis of immigrant entrepreneurship. However, the study shows that the propensity to engage in entrepreneurship is more affected for refugees and students than for migrants with a residence permit for work and entrepreneurship. This indicates a need for further facilitating the process to immigrate for entrepreneurial reasons.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2023
Keywords
migrant entrepreneurship, migration policy, Sweden, mixed embeddedness, superdiversity, difference-in-difference methodd
National Category
Business Administration International Migration and Ethnic Relations Sociology
Research subject
Business Studies; Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-472191 (URN)10.1111/imig.12989 (DOI)000761182600001 ()
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas, 2018‐02226Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Available from: 2022-04-07 Created: 2022-04-07 Last updated: 2023-07-12Bibliographically approved
Åberg, M., Hertting, N., Palm, K., Urban, S. & Öhrlund, I. (2022). Is ‘the social’ forgotten?: Aspirations and understandings of Energy Communities. In: eceee 2022 Summer Study proceedings: . Paper presented at eceee 2022 Summer study on energy efficiency: agents of change, 6-11 June, Hyères, France (pp. 613-622). Stockholm: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), Article ID 5-150-22.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Is ‘the social’ forgotten?: Aspirations and understandings of Energy Communities
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2022 (English)In: eceee 2022 Summer Study proceedings, Stockholm: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), 2022, p. 613-622, article id 5-150-22Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Energy communities (ECs) is a concept which has been around for decades in various forms, but which has not been explicitly defined or regulated by policymakers until the introduction of the Clean Energy for all Europeans package in 2019. Since then, the EU provides a legal framework for ECs which will guide the creation and management of ECs within member states. From a policy perspective, an EC is regarded as a way to organize collective energy actions in an open and participatory way to provide benefits for members of local communities and opportunities for citizens to get engaged with the transformation of the energy system. In a broad sense, the aim is formulated in terms of enabling a transition towards a "clean and fair” energy system. The policy aspirations for ECs seem to be many and diverse, including technical, economic, social and organizational, referring to a set of different values such as effective use of resources, social equity, and ecological sustainability. In technical and economic terms, EC's are supposed to enable clusters of actors to collectively invest in technology for renewable energy systems and share coordination benefits of more diverse energy use patterns, energy storage solutions and production units. Socially, ECs are expected to increase the acceptance of and support for the transition towards a renewable energy system by involving and empowering citizens, thereby helping to address issues such as poverty, social equity and “energy segregation”. Moreover, within the EU policy discourse, ECs are conceived as policy instruments for implementing EU’s energy goals, as actors on energy markets and as a part of civil society and local communities at the same time.

Evidently, ECs are expected to produce a multitude of societal benefits, but the extent to which these policy aspirations are heard and translated into practice remains unclear. In this paper, we present a mapping of how the concept of ECs is understood and reported in the research literature, published from 2015 until 2021. The aim is to categorize and assess existing understandings of ECs, and to show which aspects have been considered when ECs have been discussed and practiced. More specifically, we pose the question of whether the policymakers’ social aspirations of ECs have been forgotten.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE), 2022
Series
eceee Summer Study proceedings, ISSN 1653-7025, E-ISSN 2001-7960
Keywords
community energy systems, small-scale energy systems, transition management, energy equity, energy communities
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Political Science; Sociology; Engineering Science with specialization in Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-486586 (URN)978-91-988270-0-2 (ISBN)978-91-988270-1-9 (ISBN)
Conference
eceee 2022 Summer study on energy efficiency: agents of change, 6-11 June, Hyères, France
Funder
Swedish Research Council Formas
Available from: 2022-10-12 Created: 2022-10-12 Last updated: 2023-10-05Bibliographically approved
Urban, S. (2021). Etnisk boendesegregation (3ed.). In: Mehrdad Darvishpour & Charles Westin (Ed.), Migration och etnicitet: Perspektiv på mångfald i Sverige (pp. 327-344). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Etnisk boendesegregation
2021 (Swedish)In: Migration och etnicitet: Perspektiv på mångfald i Sverige / [ed] Mehrdad Darvishpour & Charles Westin, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021, 3, p. 327-344Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021 Edition: 3
Keywords
boendesegregation, etnisk boendesegregation, urbansociologi
National Category
International Migration and Ethnic Relations Sociology Human Geography
Research subject
Sociology; Social and Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450835 (URN)978-91-44-14346-0 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-08-19 Created: 2021-08-19 Last updated: 2022-08-19Bibliographically approved
Trumberg, A. & Urban, S. (2021). School Choice and Its Long-Term Impact on Social Mobility in Sweden. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 65(4), 569-583
Open this publication in new window or tab >>School Choice and Its Long-Term Impact on Social Mobility in Sweden
2021 (English)In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, ISSN 0031-3831, E-ISSN 1470-1170, Vol. 65, no 4, p. 569-583Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sweden possesses a highly deregulated school system in which students in the compulsory school system are free to choose almost any school they prefer. This study focuses on the long-term difference in educational level twelve years after finishing elementary school for students who made a school choice compared to those who did not. The study uses the Voronoi method of estimating school choice and is based on detailed register-based data for all students that finished elementary school in Sweden in the years 2000-2002. The results confirm previous findings that the most resourceful families more often make active choices. However, those who made an active school choice seem to have lower future educational achievement. The exception are those who have foreign-born parents, and those living in low-resource areas, who made an active school choice. They have a more positive educational achievement compared to those who stayed in the closest school.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2021
Keywords
School choice, Sweden, educational achievement, segregation, social mobilityVoronoi
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-410307 (URN)10.1080/00313831.2020.1739129 (DOI)000524150600001 ()
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 721-2013-2009
Available from: 2020-05-14 Created: 2020-05-14 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved
Urban, S. (2020). Hur klass gör skillnad. Klasspositionens betydelse för rasistiska och negativt särskiljande praktiker: Mikael Svensson [Review]. Sociologisk forskning, 57(2), 214-216
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hur klass gör skillnad. Klasspositionens betydelse för rasistiska och negativt särskiljande praktiker: Mikael Svensson
2020 (Swedish)In: Sociologisk forskning, ISSN 0038-0342, E-ISSN 2002-066X, Vol. 57, no 2, p. 214-216Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sociologisk Forskning, 2020
Keywords
klass, rasism, rasistiska praktiker, kritisk realism, normcirklar, Sverige, generativa mekanismer
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-422959 (URN)10.37062/sf.57.21872 (DOI)000570205300009 ()
Note

WoS title: How class makes a difference. The importance of class position for racist and negatively distinctive practices

Available from: 2020-10-19 Created: 2020-10-19 Last updated: 2022-05-10Bibliographically approved
Hertting, N. & Urban, S. (2020). Utsatta bostadsområden och områdesorienterad politik: problembilder, målsättningar och implementeringsstrategier i det svenska fallet. Samfundsøkonomen (3), 79-90
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Utsatta bostadsområden och områdesorienterad politik: problembilder, målsättningar och implementeringsstrategier i det svenska fallet
2020 (Swedish)In: Samfundsøkonomen, ISSN 0108-3937, no 3, p. 79-90Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
Social Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-425590 (URN)
Note

Temanummer UDSATTE BOLIGOMRÅDER – Problemer og løsninger

Available from: 2020-11-17 Created: 2020-11-17 Last updated: 2021-08-24Bibliographically approved
Urban, S. (2019). Book review: Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration: Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller (eds) [Review]. Urban Studies, 56(14), 3050-3052
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Book review: Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration: Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller (eds)
2019 (English)In: Urban Studies, ISSN 0042-0980, E-ISSN 1360-063X, Vol. 56, no 14, p. 3050-3052Article, book review (Refereed) Published
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-399717 (URN)10.1177/0042098019868127 (DOI)
Available from: 2019-12-16 Created: 2019-12-16 Last updated: 2019-12-19Bibliographically approved
Dahlstedt, M., Trumberg, A., Harling, M., Urban, S. & Vesterberg, V. (2019). Fostran till valfrihet: skolvalet, jämlikheten och framtiden. Stockholm: Liber
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fostran till valfrihet: skolvalet, jämlikheten och framtiden
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2019 (Swedish)Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Liber, 2019. p. 140
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385626 (URN)978-91-47-12591-3 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-06-14 Created: 2019-06-14 Last updated: 2023-09-11Bibliographically approved
Urban, S. (2019). Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration [Review]. Urban Studies, 56(14), 3050-3052, Article ID UNSP 0042098019868127.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
2019 (English)In: Urban Studies, ISSN 0042-0980, E-ISSN 1360-063X, Vol. 56, no 14, p. 3050-3052, article id UNSP 0042098019868127Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2019
National Category
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-396177 (URN)10.1177/0042098019868127 (DOI)000484447500001 ()
Available from: 2019-11-06 Created: 2019-11-06 Last updated: 2019-11-06Bibliographically approved
Urban, S. (2019). Utanförskap innebär att det finns en gemenskap som inte fungerar: Debattartikel i Gefle Dagblad 2019-12-14. Gefle Dagblad
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Utanförskap innebär att det finns en gemenskap som inte fungerar: Debattartikel i Gefle Dagblad 2019-12-14
2019 (Swedish)In: Gefle DagbladArticle in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Keywords
utanförskap
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-399700 (URN)
Available from: 2019-12-16 Created: 2019-12-16 Last updated: 2019-12-19Bibliographically approved
Projects
School choice reforms implementation and long term consequences for individuals´ social mobility. [2013-02009_VR]; Uppsala University
Organisations
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