Maja Cederberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 298639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maja Cederberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maja |
| FAMILY NAME | Cederberg |
| SIGNATURE | CEDERBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0852-328X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Work Matters: The Role and Meaning of Employment and Career for Highly Educated Female Migrants
This paper explores the meaning of work for highly educated female migrants. While employment tends to be considered central to migrant integration, migration research has paid limited attention to the deeper meanings associated with work, and the role they play in migration processes. In order to address this knowledge‐gap, this paper analyses narratives of highly educated female migrants from the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania)…
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts
This issue of Current Sociology Monographs explores new conceptual opportunities at the intersection of migration studies and the sociology of class. The contributions examine migration as a distinct site where class is translated and transformed, using rich, empirically specific cases to show how social class is experienced and produced relationally, transnationally and temporally through the lives of migrants. Through this focus, the papers con…
What migrant narratives can tell us about the role of class in migration (and about class in general)
Social class is undoubtedly an important aspect of international migration. Socio-economic factors contribute to shaping access to mobility and decisions to migrate, while migration often entails a reconfiguration of class positions following trajectories of upwards, downwards or ‘contradictory’ class mobility (Cederberg, 2017; Parrenas, 2015). Class is also an important dimension of the growing distinction between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’ migrant…
Ethnic entrepreneurship and the question of agency: The Role of Different Forms of Capital, and the Relevance of Social Class
The literature on ethnic entrepreneurship has focused on structural factors, group characteristics or a combination of both when explaining the entry and/or success of different ethnic groups in/to self-employment. While the active involvement of individuals has often been noted, agency has been under-theorised, and frequently conflated with what are considered as ‘cultural’ factors. This article explores the question of agency in ethnic entrepre…
Social Class and International Migration: Female Migrants’ Narratives of Social Mobility and Social Status
It is well established that international migration involves not only geographical but also social mobility, as migrants achieve an improved socioeconomic position through increased economic opportunities, or experience downwards mobility as a result of not being able to transfer their economic, social or educational resources to the receiving country context. While the social mobility that accompanies migration is often considered in the migrati…
Public Discourses and Migrant Stories of Integration and Inequality: Language and Power in Biographical Narratives
This article considers the role of public discourses in biographical narratives by focusing on discourses of integration and migrant narratives in a contemporary Swedish context. In particular, it explores how public discourses that emphasise migrants' agency and responsibility to 'integrate' help frame the ways in which migrants present themselves. While recognising the importance of biographical research for exploring migrants' experiences and …
Migrant networks and beyond: Exploring the value of the notion of social capital for making sense of ethnic inequalities
This article is concerned with use of the notion of social capital in research into the position and experience of migrants, in particular with regard to the question of inequalities. I start by outlining some key perspectives and debates in the literature on social capital, and argue in favour of Bourdieu's conceptualization. Here, what defines economic, social, cultural and symbolic resources as 'capital', in particular, essentially lies in the…
Using Ethnic Bonds in Self-Employment and the Issue of Social Capital
This paper considers the role of ethnic bonds as social capital. We use three family case studies of entrepreneurs from minority ethnic groups in the food sector in the UK to explore the complex uses of ethnicity in the pursuit of a better social and economic position. We also consider the ways in which ethnicity and ethnic bonds are often understood and used differently across gender and generation. Although the uses of ethnic bonds are multidim…
Even in Sweden. Racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination
Migrant networks and beyond: Exploring the value of the notion of social capital for making sense of ethnic inequalities
This article is concerned with use of the notion of social capital in research into the position and experience of migrants, in particular with regard to the question of inequalities. I start by outlining some key perspectives and debates in the literature on social capital, and argue in favour of Bourdieu's conceptualization. Here, what defines economic, social, cultural and symbolic resources as 'capital', in particular, essentially lies in the…
Using Ethnic Bonds in Self-Employment and the Issue of Social Capital
This paper considers the role of ethnic bonds as social capital. We use three family case studies of entrepreneurs from minority ethnic groups in the food sector in the UK to explore the complex uses of ethnicity in the pursuit of a better social and economic position. We also consider the ways in which ethnicity and ethnic bonds are often understood and used differently across gender and generation. Although the uses of ethnic bonds are multidim…
Social Class and International Migration: Female Migrants’ Narratives of Social Mobility and Social Status
It is well established that international migration involves not only geographical but also social mobility, as migrants achieve an improved socioeconomic position through increased economic opportunities, or experience downwards mobility as a result of not being able to transfer their economic, social or educational resources to the receiving country context. While the social mobility that accompanies migration is often considered in the migrati…
Public Discourses and Migrant Stories of Integration and Inequality: Language and Power in Biographical Narratives
This article considers the role of public discourses in biographical narratives by focusing on discourses of integration and migrant narratives in a contemporary Swedish context. In particular, it explores how public discourses that emphasise migrants' agency and responsibility to 'integrate' help frame the ways in which migrants present themselves. While recognising the importance of biographical research for exploring migrants' experiences and …
Ethnic entrepreneurship and the question of agency: The Role of Different Forms of Capital, and the Relevance of Social Class
The literature on ethnic entrepreneurship has focused on structural factors, group characteristics or a combination of both when explaining the entry and/or success of different ethnic groups in/to self-employment. While the active involvement of individuals has often been noted, agency has been under-theorised, and frequently conflated with what are considered as ‘cultural’ factors. This article explores the question of agency in ethnic entrepre…
Even in Sweden. Racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts
This issue of Current Sociology Monographs explores new conceptual opportunities at the intersection of migration studies and the sociology of class. The contributions examine migration as a distinct site where class is translated and transformed, using rich, empirically specific cases to show how social class is experienced and produced relationally, transnationally and temporally through the lives of migrants. Through this focus, the papers con…
What migrant narratives can tell us about the role of class in migration (and about class in general)
Social class is undoubtedly an important aspect of international migration. Socio-economic factors contribute to shaping access to mobility and decisions to migrate, while migration often entails a reconfiguration of class positions following trajectories of upwards, downwards or ‘contradictory’ class mobility (Cederberg, 2017; Parrenas, 2015). Class is also an important dimension of the growing distinction between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’ migrant…
Even in Sweden. Racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination
Using Ethnic Bonds in Self-Employment and the Issue of Social Capital
This paper considers the role of ethnic bonds as social capital. We use three family case studies of entrepreneurs from minority ethnic groups in the food sector in the UK to explore the complex uses of ethnicity in the pursuit of a better social and economic position. We also consider the ways in which ethnicity and ethnic bonds are often understood and used differently across gender and generation. Although the uses of ethnic bonds are multidim…
Migrant networks and beyond: Exploring the value of the notion of social capital for making sense of ethnic inequalities
This article is concerned with use of the notion of social capital in research into the position and experience of migrants, in particular with regard to the question of inequalities. I start by outlining some key perspectives and debates in the literature on social capital, and argue in favour of Bourdieu's conceptualization. Here, what defines economic, social, cultural and symbolic resources as 'capital', in particular, essentially lies in the…
Public Discourses and Migrant Stories of Integration and Inequality: Language and Power in Biographical Narratives
This article considers the role of public discourses in biographical narratives by focusing on discourses of integration and migrant narratives in a contemporary Swedish context. In particular, it explores how public discourses that emphasise migrants' agency and responsibility to 'integrate' help frame the ways in which migrants present themselves. While recognising the importance of biographical research for exploring migrants' experiences and …
Social Class and International Migration: Female Migrants’ Narratives of Social Mobility and Social Status
It is well established that international migration involves not only geographical but also social mobility, as migrants achieve an improved socioeconomic position through increased economic opportunities, or experience downwards mobility as a result of not being able to transfer their economic, social or educational resources to the receiving country context. While the social mobility that accompanies migration is often considered in the migrati…
Ethnic entrepreneurship and the question of agency: The Role of Different Forms of Capital, and the Relevance of Social Class
The literature on ethnic entrepreneurship has focused on structural factors, group characteristics or a combination of both when explaining the entry and/or success of different ethnic groups in/to self-employment. While the active involvement of individuals has often been noted, agency has been under-theorised, and frequently conflated with what are considered as ‘cultural’ factors. This article explores the question of agency in ethnic entrepre…
What migrant narratives can tell us about the role of class in migration (and about class in general)
Social class is undoubtedly an important aspect of international migration. Socio-economic factors contribute to shaping access to mobility and decisions to migrate, while migration often entails a reconfiguration of class positions following trajectories of upwards, downwards or ‘contradictory’ class mobility (Cederberg, 2017; Parrenas, 2015). Class is also an important dimension of the growing distinction between ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted’ migrant…
Work Matters: The Role and Meaning of Employment and Career for Highly Educated Female Migrants
This paper explores the meaning of work for highly educated female migrants. While employment tends to be considered central to migrant integration, migration research has paid limited attention to the deeper meanings associated with work, and the role they play in migration processes. In order to address this knowledge‐gap, this paper analyses narratives of highly educated female migrants from the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania)…
Translation and transformation of class through migration: Rethinking social and spatial mobility across contexts
This issue of Current Sociology Monographs explores new conceptual opportunities at the intersection of migration studies and the sociology of class. The contributions examine migration as a distinct site where class is translated and transformed, using rich, empirically specific cases to show how social class is experienced and produced relationally, transnationally and temporally through the lives of migrants. Through this focus, the papers con…
Sociology (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Social class (4 works)