Former name: Malinda Andersson
Teaching
I have a Ph. D. in Sociology and I am currently working as a senior lecturer, with a special focus on Social Policy. I have been affiliated with the School of Social Work since 2012. Within the Bachelor’s program I teach in the second and sixth semester.
Research
My research interests include welfare studies and organization studies. I have a general interest in poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist perspectives. Within the field of welfare studies, I am interested in social policy discourses on citizen groups, family practices and social problems. I have conducted research on transnational adoption discourses in Swedish social policy, resulting in a dissertation as well as other publications. Within the field of organization studies, I am interested in processes of inclusion and exclusion in organizational cultures. I have been part of a research project on equal opportunities and diversity work, funded by Lund University. My sub study dealt with racialization in Swedish academia.
Publications
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Om teori
Tina Mattsson, Em Andersson
(2022) Teorier för socialt arbete. Del 2. Normalitet, förkroppsligad erfarenhet och motstånd.
Book chapterLanguage as resource and challenge among bilingual social workers in the Swedish social services
Em Andersson
(2022) Nordic Social Work Research, 12 p.480-491
Journal articleBarn och socialt arbete : Socialhögskolans årsbok 2019
Staffan Blomberg, Ulrika Levander, Lina Ponnert, Susanna Johansson, Maria Kläfverud, et al.
(2020) Research Reports in Social Work
ReportThe Risk of Relatedness: Governing Kinship in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy
Malinda Andersson
(2015) Critical Kinship Studies , p.203-219
Book chapterNärvaro som märks. Rasifiering och tillhörighetsarbete i den svenska akademin
Malinda Andersson
(2014) Att bryta innanförskapet. Kritiska perspektiv på jämställdhet och mångfald i akademin , p.196-217
Book chapterMellan inkludering och underordning: konstruktioner av adoptivfamiljen som kategori i svensk socialpolitik
Malinda Andersson
(2014) Kritiska gemenskaper: att skriva feministisk och postkolonial vetenskap , p.115-123
Book chapterSeeing through the white gaze : racialised markings of (un)familiar bodies in Swedish transnational adoption policy
Malinda Andersson
(2012) Graduate Journal of Social Science, 9 p.65-83
Journal articleBetween colourblindness and ethnicisation: Transnational adoptees and race in a Swedish context
Tobias Hübinette, Malinda Andersson
(2012) Adoption & Fostering, 36 p.97-103
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