Dr Maja Cederberg
MA, PhD
Lecturer
Profile
Maja is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology. She joined Oxford Brookes University in January 2005, as a Research Assistant on the EU funded project ‘Ethnogeneration', concerned with the life chances of children in families of ethnic entrepreneurs. Since February 2006, she has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate on another EU funded project, entitled ‘FeMiPol: The Integration of Female Immigrants in the Labour Market and Society' (directed by Professor Floya Anthias). Maja completed her doctorate in 2005, with a thesis entitled ‘Everyday Racism in Malmö, Sweden. The Experiences of Bosnians and Somalis'.
Research
Maja's research interests are in the areas of international migration, gender, ethnicity, ‘race' and racism, social inequalities, multiculturalism and citizenship. Other related interests include work and employment, labour market and welfare policies, social and cultural theory, and qualitative research methods.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
‘Institutional perceptions of "the refugee" and refugees' experiences of Swedish society', Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, XLIII (N.162), 2006
‘Using Ethnic Bonds in Self-Employment, and the Issue of Social Capital', with Floya Anthias, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 35, No. 6, July 2009
Working papers from the FeMiPol research project can be accessed through the web-link
Recent Conference Papers
‘Refugees' experiences of Swedish society: developing the notion of Everyday Racism', presented at the ETMU Days, Åbo Academy in Turku, Finland, 26-27 October 2007
‘Images of “Swedish women” and “immigrant women”, and their consequences', presented at the conference ‘Among Us or Close to Us? The Situation of Female Immigrants, the Labour Market and European Migration Policy' at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 15-16 November 2007
'Female migrants and hi/stories of integration in contemporary Sweden', presented at the European Social Science History Conference in Lisbon, 26 February - 1 March 2008
'Presences and absences in stories about racism and disadvantage', presented at the Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association in Cardiff, 16-18 April 2009
'Shifting focus from the cultural to the socio-economic dimension of integration. Exploring the experiences of female migrants in Sweden', presented at the 'Politics of Social Cohesion' Conference, organised by the Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism (CESEM) at Copenhagen University, 9-12 September 2009
Teaching
U26180 Theorising Society
U26134 ‘Race', Ethnicity and Exclusion
U26152 Education, Work and Employment