Minna Lundgren

Background

Minna Lundgren is a doctoral student in Sociology. She has a background in Social Work and graduated from Umeå University. Minna Lundgren previously worked as a research assistant at the Department of Social Work, Umeå University in a project about the organization of personal social services in Sweden.

Area of interest

The main area of interest is the development in the former Soviet republics, with a focus on migration (forced and voluntary), ethnic conflict and reconciliation, de facto regions (Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh), and risk and the everyday in unresolved conflict zones.

Current research

Minna Lundgren's doctoral research project, Boundaries of Displacement, focuses on experiences of protracted displacement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia, a de-facto independent entity that de jure belongs to Georgia. Minna Lundgren is specifically interested in young people's experiences of forced displacement and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore issues of belonging and wishes to return among those who have no or few own memories from Abkhazia before the armed conflicts broke out in the region in the early 1990ies.

Teaching and tutoring

Minna Lundgren teaches introductory courses in Sociology and sociological methods. She has previous experience from teaching in courses in Social law, disability and social work, migration and integration, and organization studies. She has also several years of experience in supervision of undergraduate students.

Publications

Articles in journals Chapters in books Conference papers

Articles in journals

Lundgren, M. (2014). Avlägsen tillhörighet: Om skapande och upprätthållande av platstillhörighet bland georgiska internflyktingar från Abkhazien : Distant belongings: On the maintaining and creation of place attachment among Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia. Nordisk Østforum, vol. 28: 3, pp. 215-237.

Perlinski, M. , Blom, B. , Morén, S. & Lundgren, M. (2011). The dialectics between specialization and integration : Politicians' and managers' views on forms of organization in the Swedish social services. Administration in Social Work, vol. 35: 1, pp. 60-87.

Morén, S. , Blom, B. , Lundgren, M. & Perlinski, M. (2010). Specialisering eller integration? : En studie av socialarbetares syn på arbetsvillkor och insatser i tre organisationsformer. Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, : 2, pp. 189-209.

Lundgren, M. , Blom, B. , Morén, S. & Perlinski, M. (2009). Från integrering till specialisering : om organisering av socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg 1988-2008. Socialvetenskaplig Tidskrift, : 2, pp. 162-183.

Chapters in books

Lundgren, M. (2015). Crossing the Border : An Intergenerational Study of Belonging and Temporary Return among IDPs from Abkhazia. In Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang Publishing Group (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe). pp. 229-248.

Conference papers

Lundgren, M. (2014). Personal risk perception and experiences of risk among Georgian youth in Gali district, Abkhazia. .