Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4611327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony Blomqvist |
| FAMILY NAME | Mickelsson |
| SIGNATURE | MICKELSSON T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Södertörn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2934-9313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Public trust towards police on a wartime rollercoaster: Evidence from Ukraine, 2015–2024
Public trust in police is central to democratic governance, yet its development during interstate war remains underexplored. Research on crisis-related trust has largely focused on political leaders and the military, leaving civilian security institutions understudied. This paper examines public trust in the Ukrainian National Police from 2015 to 2024, focusing on Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Using nationally representative survey data f…
Embodied Belonging: Rough-and-Tumble Play as a Mechanism for Social Cohesion in Martial Arts
Martial arts are increasingly promoted as interventions for youth in high-risk, socioeconomically marginalized areas. While existing literature has focused on psychological outcomes such as self-regulation, or sociological themes like identity transformation, few studies have examined the micro-social mechanisms through which martial arts may prevent criminal involvement. Drawing on 52 qualitative interviews with coaches and young practitioners a…
Ukrainian Refugees’ Differentiated Treatment: A Critical and Systematic Review
This review examines the distinct treatment of millions of displaced Ukrainians amidst the ongoing conflict, compared to previous refugee groups in Europe, presenting a synthesis of research encompassing traditional and grey literature. Evaluating resettlement processes, the analysis underscores the unique factors shaping Ukrainian refugees' reception, shedding light on disparities compared to other refugee groups. Cultural perceptions, vulnerabi…
European voluntary sport clubs’ enabling and constraining effects on refugees’ social inclusion: An integrative review
European governments have increasingly relied on voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) to address social issues, particularly refugees' social inclusion. Contemporarily, millions of Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries; VSCs are thus more relevant than ever. This review synthesised the research on VSCs' enabling and constraining features regarding refugees' social inclusion. The review was conceptualised according to Bronfenbrenner's Pro…
Safety, Shame, and Ambiguity — the Case of Ukrainian Male Refugees
Forced migration from Ukraine is characterized by its distinctive demographic character: women, children, and the elderly. This distinctiveness is due to the sex-selective military recruiting law forcing Ukrainian men to stay in the country. Despite this law, anecdotal reports about Ukrainian men fleeing into neighboring countries have surfaced. As such, Ukrainian male refugees are a salient minority. In this article, I reflect on how this salien…
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘Deservingness’ and ‘Promising Victimhood’
An emergent discourse along with a small, but growing, body of empirical research scrutinises how Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently compared to other refugee populations and how western societies construct ‘hierarchies of victims’. For social work, a discipline designated to combat inequity, there is a strong incentive to understand if these hierarchies exist within welfare-providing organisations. This paper explores the Swedish s…
Parental Perceptions of Youths’ Desirable Characteristics in Relation to Type of Leisure: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Martial-Art-Practicing Youths
Parents place their youths in sport with the belief that doing so will produce developmental outcomes. However, it is unclear if parents enroll children in different sports based on different desired characteristics they wish their youth to develop. This paper analyses the link between youths engaged in martial arts (MA) compared to other leisure activities. MA research has indicated the importance of masculinity and gender ideals that suggest th…
Towards Understanding Post-Socialist Migrants’ Access to Physical Activity in the Nordic Region: A Critical Realist Integrative Review
Experiences of, and access and barriers to, physical activity (PA) differ between individuals. This becomes perpetuated in a migration context. Although there is super-diversity between migrant groups, health research rarely accounts for this cultural diversity. More concerningly, the matter of context is rarely scrutinized or juxtaposed with the specifics of certain ethnic groups. This integrative review assessed the evidence on post-socialist m…
Performance increments without audience: Paired data from mixed martial arts fighters during Covid-19
During COVID-19, athletes have been forced to compete in the absence of audience. Athletic and cognitive performance have been shown to be both incremented and decremented when competing either with or without audience, something that has been termed ‘social facilitation’. The current study sought to investigate this effect in a naturalistic experiment due to the current pandemic, in a sport in which the effect has never been examined; mixed mart…
Safety, Shame, and Ambiguity — the Case of Ukrainian Male Refugees
Forced migration from Ukraine is characterized by its distinctive demographic character: women, children, and the elderly. This distinctiveness is due to the sex-selective military recruiting law forcing Ukrainian men to stay in the country. Despite this law, anecdotal reports about Ukrainian men fleeing into neighboring countries have surfaced. As such, Ukrainian male refugees are a salient minority. In this article, I reflect on how this salien…
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘Deservingness’ and ‘Promising Victimhood’
An emergent discourse along with a small, but growing, body of empirical research scrutinises how Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently compared to other refugee populations and how western societies construct ‘hierarchies of victims’. For social work, a discipline designated to combat inequity, there is a strong incentive to understand if these hierarchies exist within welfare-providing organisations. This paper explores the Swedish s…
Performance increments without audience: Paired data from mixed martial arts fighters during Covid-19
During COVID-19, athletes have been forced to compete in the absence of audience. Athletic and cognitive performance have been shown to be both incremented and decremented when competing either with or without audience, something that has been termed ‘social facilitation’. The current study sought to investigate this effect in a naturalistic experiment due to the current pandemic, in a sport in which the effect has never been examined; mixed mart…
Towards Understanding Post-Socialist Migrants’ Access to Physical Activity in the Nordic Region: A Critical Realist Integrative Review
Experiences of, and access and barriers to, physical activity (PA) differ between individuals. This becomes perpetuated in a migration context. Although there is super-diversity between migrant groups, health research rarely accounts for this cultural diversity. More concerningly, the matter of context is rarely scrutinized or juxtaposed with the specifics of certain ethnic groups. This integrative review assessed the evidence on post-socialist m…
Parental Perceptions of Youths’ Desirable Characteristics in Relation to Type of Leisure: A Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis of Martial-Art-Practicing Youths
Parents place their youths in sport with the belief that doing so will produce developmental outcomes. However, it is unclear if parents enroll children in different sports based on different desired characteristics they wish their youth to develop. This paper analyses the link between youths engaged in martial arts (MA) compared to other leisure activities. MA research has indicated the importance of masculinity and gender ideals that suggest th…
Ukrainian refugees’ reception in Swedish sports clubs: ‘Deservingness’ and ‘Promising Victimhood’
An emergent discourse along with a small, but growing, body of empirical research scrutinises how Ukrainian refugees are being treated differently compared to other refugee populations and how western societies construct ‘hierarchies of victims’. For social work, a discipline designated to combat inequity, there is a strong incentive to understand if these hierarchies exist within welfare-providing organisations. This paper explores the Swedish s…
Embodied Belonging: Rough-and-Tumble Play as a Mechanism for Social Cohesion in Martial Arts
Martial arts are increasingly promoted as interventions for youth in high-risk, socioeconomically marginalized areas. While existing literature has focused on psychological outcomes such as self-regulation, or sociological themes like identity transformation, few studies have examined the micro-social mechanisms through which martial arts may prevent criminal involvement. Drawing on 52 qualitative interviews with coaches and young practitioners a…
Ukrainian Refugees’ Differentiated Treatment: A Critical and Systematic Review
This review examines the distinct treatment of millions of displaced Ukrainians amidst the ongoing conflict, compared to previous refugee groups in Europe, presenting a synthesis of research encompassing traditional and grey literature. Evaluating resettlement processes, the analysis underscores the unique factors shaping Ukrainian refugees' reception, shedding light on disparities compared to other refugee groups. Cultural perceptions, vulnerabi…
European voluntary sport clubs’ enabling and constraining effects on refugees’ social inclusion: An integrative review
European governments have increasingly relied on voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) to address social issues, particularly refugees' social inclusion. Contemporarily, millions of Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighbouring countries; VSCs are thus more relevant than ever. This review synthesised the research on VSCs' enabling and constraining features regarding refugees' social inclusion. The review was conceptualised according to Bronfenbrenner's Pro…
Safety, Shame, and Ambiguity — the Case of Ukrainian Male Refugees
Forced migration from Ukraine is characterized by its distinctive demographic character: women, children, and the elderly. This distinctiveness is due to the sex-selective military recruiting law forcing Ukrainian men to stay in the country. Despite this law, anecdotal reports about Ukrainian men fleeing into neighboring countries have surfaced. As such, Ukrainian male refugees are a salient minority. In this article, I reflect on how this salien…
Public trust towards police on a wartime rollercoaster: Evidence from Ukraine, 2015–2024
Public trust in police is central to democratic governance, yet its development during interstate war remains underexplored. Research on crisis-related trust has largely focused on political leaders and the military, leaving civilian security institutions understudied. This paper examines public trust in the Ukrainian National Police from 2015 to 2024, focusing on Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Using nationally representative survey data f…
Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Martial arts (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Ukrainian (3 works)