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Nina Gren
Researcher
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Nina is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Gothenburg. Her doctoral thesis from 2009 builds on a one-year ethnographic fieldwork in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. In short, the thesis dealt with the many ways that the camp inhabitants tried to maintain continuity, morality and a normal order despite repeated emergencies during the second intifada. She has also done research about Danes and Swedes with Palestinian backgrounds and their diasporic practices, while being a post doc at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. In addition, Nina has carried out fieldwork in UN-run schools for Palestinian refugee children, focusing on processes of gendered identity formations. Another project focused on the encounters between newly arrived refugees and staff at the Swedish Public Employment Service. She was particularly interested in how the refugees’ experiences of violence are dealt with in those meetings and in the moral issues and bureaucratic tactics that emerge.
Nina's research interests are mainly found in political anthropology and migration studies, with a specialization in refugees and diasporic practices. She is interested in social memory, gender and home in relation to violent political conflict and flight. Most of her research has been related to Palestinian refugees.
Publications
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”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Emma Eleonorasdotter, Dalia Abdelhady, David Bowling, Karin Zackari, Victor Pressfeldt, et al.
(2024) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleUnmasking the Impact of Bureaucratic Violence on Refugees
Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann
(2024) Refuge - Canada's Journal on Refugees
Journal articleSverige har ett ansvar att förhindra folkmord
Nina Gren, Helena Lindholm Schulz
(2024) Svenska Dagbladet Debatt
Newspaper articleSverige bidrar till kollektiv bestraffning
Nina Gren, Helen Lindholm Schulz
(2024) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper article”Ska vi bedriva den bästa undervisningen och forskningen kan vi inte agera poliser.”
Karin Zackari, Anna Lundberg, Maja Sager, Nina Gren, Till Koglin, et al.
(2023) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articlePolitikerna struntar i klimatforskningen : 420 forskare: Regeringens politik är katastrofal – nu måste fler svenskar kräva en omställning
Glenn Bark, Karin Gerhardt, Jeannette Eggers, Paul Glantz, Maria Wolrath Söderberg, et al.
(2023) Aftonbladet Debatt
Newspaper articleDet finns liten anledning att misstro de palestinska dödssiffrorna
Nina Gren, Helen Lindholm Schulz
(2023) Göteborgs-Posten
Newspaper articleUppenbart att omvärlden inte tycker att palestinska liv är värda att sörjas
Nina Gren, Helena Lindholm Schulz
(2023) Göteborgs-Posten
Newspaper articleIsrael upprätthåller ett apartheidsystem
Nina Gren, Helena Lindholm Schulz
(2023) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper articlePalestiniers rättigheter måste tas på allvar
Nina Gren, Helena Lindholm Schulz
(2023) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper articlePalestinian conflict: : how despair can drive people to violence, even if it puts their lives in danger
Nina Gren
(2023) The Conversation
Journal articleSveriges utsläpp måste minska nu, regeringen : 531 forskare: Annars är sveket monumentalt – ni kan inte säga att ni inte visste
Alasdair Skelton, Kimberly Nicholas, Lennart Olsson, David Alcer, Tomas Persson, et al.
(2023) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleSpecial Issue on Bureaucratic Violence - Introduction
Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann
(2023) Refuge - Canada's Journal on Refugees
Journal articleDe unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleHealed pasts, multiple belongings and multifocal engagements: a Danish-Palestinian diaspora tour
Nina Gren
(2022) Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas , p.328-340
Book chapterBorderization through the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law: : Hindering Palestinian Family Life
Nina Gren
(2022) working papers
Working paperMission Impossible? : The Moral Discomfort among Swedish and Norwegian Welfare Bureaucrats Encountering Refugees
Nina Gren, Nerina Weiss
(2021) Nordisk välfärdsforskning / Nordic Welfare Research, 6 p.192-203
Journal article‘Welcoming’ European welfare states are forcing refugees through mazes of harmful rules
Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann, Nina Gren
(2021) The Conversation
Journal articleBook review Ilana Feldman, Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics (2018)
Nina Gren
(2020) Conflict and Society, 2020 p.260-262
ReviewIntroduction
Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann
(2020) Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Book chapterLiving Bureaucratization: Young Palestinian Men Encountering a Swedish Introductory Programme for Refugees
Nina Gren
(2020) Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Book chapter171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
Per Adman, Mats Alvesson, Elina Andersson, Mimmi Maria Barmark, Ebba Brink, et al.
(2019) Dagens nyheter (DN debatt)
Newspaper articleCultivating a sustainable society : attempts to change contemporary Sweden by urban gardening and theatre
Nina Gren, Hanna Wittrock
(2018)
Conference paper: abstractAbout Not Understanding the System : Ignorance as an Obstacle to a Meaningful Life in Sweden
Nina Gren
(2018)
Conference paper: abstractBook review of Gabiam, Nell (2016) Politics of Suffering. Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps
Nina Gren
(2017) American Ethnologist, 44
ReviewUnruly Boys and Obedient Girls: Gender and Education in UNRWA Schools in the West Bank
Nina Gren
(2017) Nidaba: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies, 2
Journal articleBook reviews : Kaya, Mehmed S. & Fauske, Halvor (eds.) (2014) Innvandrere på utsiden av samfunnet, Oslo: Abstrakt forlag. 213 pp.
Nina Gren
(2016) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 6 p.133-134
ReviewOccupied Lives : Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
Nina Gren
(2015)
BookBeing home through learning Palestinian sociality: : Swedish-Palestinian houses in the West Bank
Nina Gren
(2015) Diasporic constructions of home and belonging , p.229-247
Book chapterGendering Al-Nakba : Elderly Palestinian Refugees' Stories and Silences about Dying Children
Nina Gren
(2014) St Antony's International Review, 10 p.110-126
Journal articleBarn för mitt hjärta eller för mitt land? Den palestinska katastrofens dilemman
Nina Gren
(2011) Jordens folk, etnografisk tidsskrift , p.22-27
Journal articleThe Labelling of Palestinian Camp Refugees: The Case of Dheishe
Nina Gren
(2010) Migration and Mashreq
Journal articleEach Day Another Disaster : Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank
Nina Gren
(2009)
DissertationA Homeland Torn Apart: Partition in a Palestinian Refugee Camp
Nina Gren
(2007) The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts , p.196-217
Book chapterMotherhood and Loss in the Shadow of the Intifada : Identity Formation Among Palestinian Refugee Women
Nina Gren
(2002)
Working paper