Theme: Migrations

How can schools support children of immigrants?

Meet Dalia Abdelhady, sociologist at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, currently working on a comparative study of the experiences of children of immigrants in four European countries and the United States. Why did you choose to go into the field of migration studies? I started out studying...

Swedish newspaper

How media cover refugees and immigrants

Dalia Abdelhady, senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies has been studying French media and the coverage of refugees. For her French media is kind of interesting because, more so than Sweden, the newspapers have strong political alliances. The assumption was that the newspapers given their political differences...

Why do animals migrate?

In order to survive and breed, most wild animals need to migrate between different areas. Many characteristics and abilities have to synchronise if the animal is to survive. One such ability is navigation. There are many animals that have an impressive ability to navigate, i.e. to understand where they are...

The compasses of migratory birds

The earth’s magnetic field, the stars, the sun or the pattern of polarised light that is especially clear in the sky at dawn and dusk – these are compasses that birds use for orientation. Researchers at CAnMove exposed birds from North America and southern Scandinavia to contradictory sensory impressions to see...