Charla Hedberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 144559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charla Hedberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charla |
| FAMILY NAME | Hedberg |
| SIGNATURE | HEDBERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7888-780X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Placing Migration
This paper critically engages with the spatial assumptions that underpin migration studies, highlighting a shift from an absolute view of space to a relational spatial perspective, influenced by transnational and translocal migration studies. While the latter emphasises the interconnectedness of migrants across borders and the fleeting translocal links involved in the production of places, this paper argues that a timeplace perspective, which see…
The Transferability of Human Capital and Migrant Incorporation Strategies in the Swedish Labor Market
Migrants benefit differently from their educational credentials depending on their origin. We use the case of Sweden to study the strategies that migrants adopt to overcome barriers keeping them from fully using their education in the host society's labor market. We used administrative register data on employment, self-employment, unemployment, parental leave, and education to classify nine-year-long labor-market sequences of a cohort of migrants…
Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production
Recent geopolitical and economic crises underline the need for a European transition towards a more sustainable food system. Scholars and policymakers have called for a re-territorialization of food production to strike a better balance between local, regional and global value chains. This paper explores the role of re-territorialization through an analysis of the emergence, development and current transformation of the Swedish wild berry value c…
New immigration destinations in Sweden
This paper aims to examine the residential trajectories of immigrants that intersect rural areas in Sweden. It adds to the literature on new immigration destinations (NIDs) and addresses the need to include migration routes intersecting rural areas, immigrants' secondary migration patterns and temporal dimensions of migration, as well as the multiplicity of migrants in such destinations. We examine whether NIDs have emerged in Sweden and immigran…
‘A Strong Mind and a Solid Physique’
This article analyses how employer federations, trade unions and the Swedish state symbolically construct seasonal migrant workers to work in the green industries, specifically in agriculture, forestry and wild-berry picking. Work tasks and skills become ethnicised where certain groups are constructed as ‘fit’ for certain work tasks. Through symbolic constructing, boundaries are drawn in relation to Swedish workers in general but also hierarchica…
Downshifting towards voluntary simplicity
Reappraisal of the local and living a rooted life are often highlighted by international advocates for sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyles. The purpose of this study is to explore and theorize downshifters’ lifestyle changes, with a particular focus on their living environments and sense of place, and we draw on a theoretical framework that combines insights from previous research on downshifting and voluntary simplicity. We cond…
From panic to business as usual
This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of f…
Negotiating the Wild West
Neoliberalisation processes have long permeated Western societies, including a common direction towards neoliberal migration regimes. This paper combines the perspective of variegated neoliberalisation with the recent literature on migration industries, to investigate the neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and how it affected and interacted with the wild berry migration industry. It shows how neoliberalisation as a historica…
Re-visiting the 'black box' of migration
It is now widely held that a variety of intermediary actors, including recruitment and staffing agencies, multinational corporations and local brokers, shape labour migration. This paper argues that in order to better understand the global circulation of labour it is necessary to explore the involvement of these actors in the production of the regulatory spaces through which migrant labour is brokered. Indeed, migration intermediaries do not only…
Chameleon brokers
Migrant brokers constitute a substantial node in the industries that underpin contemporary global migration processes, including seasonal labour migrants in agri-food businesses. This article adds a translocal perspective to the role of migrant brokers, while emphasising the multi-sited embeddedness of brokers in sending and receiving countries, and their role in sustaining transnational migration flows. The example of the Swedish wild berry indu…
Entwined ruralities
Agrarian industries in rural areas are increasingly relying on seasonal migrant workers, who arrive in transnationally organised settings. This paper focuses on the concept of transnational simultaneity in order to further analyse the dynamics that are sustaining low-wage, seasonal labour migration in transnational social fields. It is suggested that the concepts of seasonal livelihood diversification and biographical simultaneity contribute to e…
Emerging topologies of transnational employment
Translocal mobility systems
Doing gender’ in the wild berry industry
‘Doing gender’ has often been used as the theoretical entrance for research on gender issues in the social sciences. However, research has been accused of using the concept in a ‘ceremonial’ way, treating gendered structures as static. In response to this claim, this article investigates the process of ‘hierarchization’, or how gendered and racial hierarchies occur through everyday practices and political and economic contexts in the rural, wild …
Repopulation of the Swedish countryside
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
Neighbourhood Effects’ and ‘City Effects’
An important debate in current research and policy focuses on the role of urban residential segregation on the social mobility of immigrants. Much focus has been on ‘neighbourhood effects’ and on how spatial variations within the city affect individual careers. This paper adds the analysis of variations of labour market incorporation between cities. The labour market careers of one migrant cohort to Sweden are analysed, where the analysis of ‘nei…
Disadvantage, Ethnic Niching or Pursuit of a Vision
Entrance, Exit and Exclusion
International migrants often occupy subordinate positions in the labour market or are excluded from it. Based on unique longitudinal data, this article investigates the socioeconomic mobility of the foreign-born adult population in two Swedish cities in the period 1993—2002. Patterns of entrance, exit and exclusion pertaining to the labour of foreign-born and native-born populations are compared, focusing on variations between ‘distressed’ neighb…
Identity in motion
This article examines how identities among Finland-Swedish migrants change in the process of contemporary migration between Finland and Sweden. An approach of mixed methods is adopted in order to reveal both patterns of settling in Sweden or returning to Finland and mechanisms of the migrants’ identity construction. Through migration, identifications are contested. The findings suggest that in Sweden the Finlandian national identity initially gro…
Direction Sweden
This article analyses migration fields and perceptions of distance in the context of the migration process of the Finland‐Swedish minority group from Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. The focus of investigation concerns whether the conceptualisation of distance, in terms of socio‐historical migration fields and cognitive maps, can contribute to our understanding of migration decision‐making. A combination of methods has been employed. Firs…
Migration as a mode of cultural expression? the case of the finland‐swedish minority's migration to sweden
This article aims at analysing the migration of the Finland‐Swedish minority in Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. This group has been constantly over‐represented in the out‐migration to Sweden, implicating a certain culture of migration. Migratory patterns are examined on a general as well as a regional level, related both to the mobility of the Finnish speakers and to the remaining population in Finland. In addition to the descriptive ana…
Driftwood Use at Homol'ovi and Implications for Interpreting the Archæological Record
Southwestern Archæology is noted for its precise chronology based on tree-rings. Researchers often assume that archaeological building timbers arrived at their final destination solely through human transport; however, there is evidence that communities along rivers relied on driftwood for some of their wood needs. Wood use by inhabitants of several of the ancient Hopi villages of Homol'ovi, located along the Little Colorado River in northeastern…
Repopulation of the Swedish countryside
Re-visiting the 'black box' of migration
It is now widely held that a variety of intermediary actors, including recruitment and staffing agencies, multinational corporations and local brokers, shape labour migration. This paper argues that in order to better understand the global circulation of labour it is necessary to explore the involvement of these actors in the production of the regulatory spaces through which migrant labour is brokered. Indeed, migration intermediaries do not only…
Emerging topologies of transnational employment
Migration as a mode of cultural expression? the case of the finland‐swedish minority's migration to sweden
This article aims at analysing the migration of the Finland‐Swedish minority in Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. This group has been constantly over‐represented in the out‐migration to Sweden, implicating a certain culture of migration. Migratory patterns are examined on a general as well as a regional level, related both to the mobility of the Finnish speakers and to the remaining population in Finland. In addition to the descriptive ana…
Entwined ruralities
Agrarian industries in rural areas are increasingly relying on seasonal migrant workers, who arrive in transnationally organised settings. This paper focuses on the concept of transnational simultaneity in order to further analyse the dynamics that are sustaining low-wage, seasonal labour migration in transnational social fields. It is suggested that the concepts of seasonal livelihood diversification and biographical simultaneity contribute to e…
Translocal mobility systems
Neighbourhood Effects’ and ‘City Effects’
An important debate in current research and policy focuses on the role of urban residential segregation on the social mobility of immigrants. Much focus has been on ‘neighbourhood effects’ and on how spatial variations within the city affect individual careers. This paper adds the analysis of variations of labour market incorporation between cities. The labour market careers of one migrant cohort to Sweden are analysed, where the analysis of ‘nei…
Doing gender’ in the wild berry industry
‘Doing gender’ has often been used as the theoretical entrance for research on gender issues in the social sciences. However, research has been accused of using the concept in a ‘ceremonial’ way, treating gendered structures as static. In response to this claim, this article investigates the process of ‘hierarchization’, or how gendered and racial hierarchies occur through everyday practices and political and economic contexts in the rural, wild …
Negotiating the Wild West
Neoliberalisation processes have long permeated Western societies, including a common direction towards neoliberal migration regimes. This paper combines the perspective of variegated neoliberalisation with the recent literature on migration industries, to investigate the neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and how it affected and interacted with the wild berry migration industry. It shows how neoliberalisation as a historica…
Identity in motion
This article examines how identities among Finland-Swedish migrants change in the process of contemporary migration between Finland and Sweden. An approach of mixed methods is adopted in order to reveal both patterns of settling in Sweden or returning to Finland and mechanisms of the migrants’ identity construction. Through migration, identifications are contested. The findings suggest that in Sweden the Finlandian national identity initially gro…
Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production
Recent geopolitical and economic crises underline the need for a European transition towards a more sustainable food system. Scholars and policymakers have called for a re-territorialization of food production to strike a better balance between local, regional and global value chains. This paper explores the role of re-territorialization through an analysis of the emergence, development and current transformation of the Swedish wild berry value c…
New immigration destinations in Sweden
This paper aims to examine the residential trajectories of immigrants that intersect rural areas in Sweden. It adds to the literature on new immigration destinations (NIDs) and addresses the need to include migration routes intersecting rural areas, immigrants' secondary migration patterns and temporal dimensions of migration, as well as the multiplicity of migrants in such destinations. We examine whether NIDs have emerged in Sweden and immigran…
Chameleon brokers
Migrant brokers constitute a substantial node in the industries that underpin contemporary global migration processes, including seasonal labour migrants in agri-food businesses. This article adds a translocal perspective to the role of migrant brokers, while emphasising the multi-sited embeddedness of brokers in sending and receiving countries, and their role in sustaining transnational migration flows. The example of the Swedish wild berry indu…
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
Entrance, Exit and Exclusion
International migrants often occupy subordinate positions in the labour market or are excluded from it. Based on unique longitudinal data, this article investigates the socioeconomic mobility of the foreign-born adult population in two Swedish cities in the period 1993—2002. Patterns of entrance, exit and exclusion pertaining to the labour of foreign-born and native-born populations are compared, focusing on variations between ‘distressed’ neighb…
Direction Sweden
This article analyses migration fields and perceptions of distance in the context of the migration process of the Finland‐Swedish minority group from Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. The focus of investigation concerns whether the conceptualisation of distance, in terms of socio‐historical migration fields and cognitive maps, can contribute to our understanding of migration decision‐making. A combination of methods has been employed. Firs…
Placing Migration
This paper critically engages with the spatial assumptions that underpin migration studies, highlighting a shift from an absolute view of space to a relational spatial perspective, influenced by transnational and translocal migration studies. While the latter emphasises the interconnectedness of migrants across borders and the fleeting translocal links involved in the production of places, this paper argues that a timeplace perspective, which see…
Downshifting towards voluntary simplicity
Reappraisal of the local and living a rooted life are often highlighted by international advocates for sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyles. The purpose of this study is to explore and theorize downshifters’ lifestyle changes, with a particular focus on their living environments and sense of place, and we draw on a theoretical framework that combines insights from previous research on downshifting and voluntary simplicity. We cond…
Disadvantage, Ethnic Niching or Pursuit of a Vision
Driftwood Use at Homol'ovi and Implications for Interpreting the Archæological Record
Southwestern Archæology is noted for its precise chronology based on tree-rings. Researchers often assume that archaeological building timbers arrived at their final destination solely through human transport; however, there is evidence that communities along rivers relied on driftwood for some of their wood needs. Wood use by inhabitants of several of the ancient Hopi villages of Homol'ovi, located along the Little Colorado River in northeastern…
Driftwood Use at Homol'ovi and Implications for Interpreting the Archæological Record
Southwestern Archæology is noted for its precise chronology based on tree-rings. Researchers often assume that archaeological building timbers arrived at their final destination solely through human transport; however, there is evidence that communities along rivers relied on driftwood for some of their wood needs. Wood use by inhabitants of several of the ancient Hopi villages of Homol'ovi, located along the Little Colorado River in northeastern…
Migration as a mode of cultural expression? the case of the finland‐swedish minority's migration to sweden
This article aims at analysing the migration of the Finland‐Swedish minority in Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. This group has been constantly over‐represented in the out‐migration to Sweden, implicating a certain culture of migration. Migratory patterns are examined on a general as well as a regional level, related both to the mobility of the Finnish speakers and to the remaining population in Finland. In addition to the descriptive ana…
Direction Sweden
This article analyses migration fields and perceptions of distance in the context of the migration process of the Finland‐Swedish minority group from Finland to Sweden between 1976 and 1999. The focus of investigation concerns whether the conceptualisation of distance, in terms of socio‐historical migration fields and cognitive maps, can contribute to our understanding of migration decision‐making. A combination of methods has been employed. Firs…
Identity in motion
This article examines how identities among Finland-Swedish migrants change in the process of contemporary migration between Finland and Sweden. An approach of mixed methods is adopted in order to reveal both patterns of settling in Sweden or returning to Finland and mechanisms of the migrants’ identity construction. Through migration, identifications are contested. The findings suggest that in Sweden the Finlandian national identity initially gro…
Entrance, Exit and Exclusion
International migrants often occupy subordinate positions in the labour market or are excluded from it. Based on unique longitudinal data, this article investigates the socioeconomic mobility of the foreign-born adult population in two Swedish cities in the period 1993—2002. Patterns of entrance, exit and exclusion pertaining to the labour of foreign-born and native-born populations are compared, focusing on variations between ‘distressed’ neighb…
Disadvantage, Ethnic Niching or Pursuit of a Vision
Neighbourhood Effects’ and ‘City Effects’
An important debate in current research and policy focuses on the role of urban residential segregation on the social mobility of immigrants. Much focus has been on ‘neighbourhood effects’ and on how spatial variations within the city affect individual careers. This paper adds the analysis of variations of labour market incorporation between cities. The labour market careers of one migrant cohort to Sweden are analysed, where the analysis of ‘nei…
Repopulation of the Swedish countryside
Transnational Spaces ‘From Above’ – The Role of Institutions in Promoting Highly Skilled Labour Migration from I ndia to S weden
The global network economy involves intensive interactions and flows between places. In this paper, we define a theoretical framework of labour migration in the global economy in which we propose the importance of transnational spaces ‘from above’ and how formal organisations develop networks for migration processes. This theoretical framework is employed on an empirical study that investigates the increasing flows of highly‐skilled labour migrat…
Doing gender’ in the wild berry industry
‘Doing gender’ has often been used as the theoretical entrance for research on gender issues in the social sciences. However, research has been accused of using the concept in a ‘ceremonial’ way, treating gendered structures as static. In response to this claim, this article investigates the process of ‘hierarchization’, or how gendered and racial hierarchies occur through everyday practices and political and economic contexts in the rural, wild …
Emerging topologies of transnational employment
Translocal mobility systems
Chameleon brokers
Migrant brokers constitute a substantial node in the industries that underpin contemporary global migration processes, including seasonal labour migrants in agri-food businesses. This article adds a translocal perspective to the role of migrant brokers, while emphasising the multi-sited embeddedness of brokers in sending and receiving countries, and their role in sustaining transnational migration flows. The example of the Swedish wild berry indu…
Entwined ruralities
Agrarian industries in rural areas are increasingly relying on seasonal migrant workers, who arrive in transnationally organised settings. This paper focuses on the concept of transnational simultaneity in order to further analyse the dynamics that are sustaining low-wage, seasonal labour migration in transnational social fields. It is suggested that the concepts of seasonal livelihood diversification and biographical simultaneity contribute to e…
Negotiating the Wild West
Neoliberalisation processes have long permeated Western societies, including a common direction towards neoliberal migration regimes. This paper combines the perspective of variegated neoliberalisation with the recent literature on migration industries, to investigate the neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and how it affected and interacted with the wild berry migration industry. It shows how neoliberalisation as a historica…
Re-visiting the 'black box' of migration
It is now widely held that a variety of intermediary actors, including recruitment and staffing agencies, multinational corporations and local brokers, shape labour migration. This paper argues that in order to better understand the global circulation of labour it is necessary to explore the involvement of these actors in the production of the regulatory spaces through which migrant labour is brokered. Indeed, migration intermediaries do not only…
‘A Strong Mind and a Solid Physique’
This article analyses how employer federations, trade unions and the Swedish state symbolically construct seasonal migrant workers to work in the green industries, specifically in agriculture, forestry and wild-berry picking. Work tasks and skills become ethnicised where certain groups are constructed as ‘fit’ for certain work tasks. Through symbolic constructing, boundaries are drawn in relation to Swedish workers in general but also hierarchica…
Downshifting towards voluntary simplicity
Reappraisal of the local and living a rooted life are often highlighted by international advocates for sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyles. The purpose of this study is to explore and theorize downshifters’ lifestyle changes, with a particular focus on their living environments and sense of place, and we draw on a theoretical framework that combines insights from previous research on downshifting and voluntary simplicity. We cond…
From panic to business as usual
This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of f…
Socio-techno-ecological transition dynamics in the re-territorialization of food production
Recent geopolitical and economic crises underline the need for a European transition towards a more sustainable food system. Scholars and policymakers have called for a re-territorialization of food production to strike a better balance between local, regional and global value chains. This paper explores the role of re-territorialization through an analysis of the emergence, development and current transformation of the Swedish wild berry value c…
New immigration destinations in Sweden
This paper aims to examine the residential trajectories of immigrants that intersect rural areas in Sweden. It adds to the literature on new immigration destinations (NIDs) and addresses the need to include migration routes intersecting rural areas, immigrants' secondary migration patterns and temporal dimensions of migration, as well as the multiplicity of migrants in such destinations. We examine whether NIDs have emerged in Sweden and immigran…
Placing Migration
This paper critically engages with the spatial assumptions that underpin migration studies, highlighting a shift from an absolute view of space to a relational spatial perspective, influenced by transnational and translocal migration studies. While the latter emphasises the interconnectedness of migrants across borders and the fleeting translocal links involved in the production of places, this paper argues that a timeplace perspective, which see…
The Transferability of Human Capital and Migrant Incorporation Strategies in the Swedish Labor Market
Migrants benefit differently from their educational credentials depending on their origin. We use the case of Sweden to study the strategies that migrants adopt to overcome barriers keeping them from fully using their education in the host society's labor market. We used administrative register data on employment, self-employment, unemployment, parental leave, and education to classify nine-year-long labor-market sequences of a cohort of migrants…
Geography (18 works) · Economics (16 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Business (7 works)