Former name: Malinda Andersson
Teaching
I have a Ph. D. in Sociology and I am currently working as a senior lecturer, with a special focus on Social Policy. I have been affiliated with the School of Social Work since 2012. Within the Bachelor’s program I teach in the second and sixth semester.
Research
My research interests include welfare studies and organization studies. I have a general interest in poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist perspectives. Within the field of welfare studies, I am interested in social policy discourses on citizen groups, family practices and social problems. I have conducted research on transnational adoption discourses in Swedish social policy, resulting in a dissertation as well as other publications. Within the field of organization studies, I am interested in processes of inclusion and exclusion in organizational cultures. I have been part of a research project on equal opportunities and diversity work, funded by Lund University. My sub study dealt with racialization in Swedish academia.
Publications
- Andersson, M. (2015). "The Risk of Relatedness. Governing Kinship in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy". In Charlotte Kroløkke, Lene Myong, Stine Willum Adrian and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (eds.) Critical Kinship Studies (203-219). Rowman & Littlefield: London.
- Andersson, M. (2014). ”Närvaro som märks. Rasifiering och tillhörighetsarbete i den svenska akademin”. I Kerstin Sandell (ed.) Att bryta innanförskapet. Kritiska perspektiv på jämställdhet och mångfald i akademin (s. 196-217). Stockholm: Makadam förlag.
- Andersson, M. (2014). ”Mellan inkludering och underordning: postkoloniala perspektiv på välfärd och socialpolitik i Sverige”. I Kerstin Sandell, Nora Räthzel och Maja Sager (eds.) Kritiska gemenskaper: att skriva feministisk och postkolonial vetenskap (s. 115-123). Lund: Media.Tryck, Lunds universitet.
- Hübinette, T. och Andersson, M. (2012). Between Colourblindness and Ethnicisation, Transnational Adoptees and Race in a Swedish Context. Adoption & Fostering 36(3): 97-103
- Andersson, M. (2012). Seeing Through the White Gaze: Racialised Markings of (Un)familiar Bodies in Swedish Transnational Adoption Policy. Graduate Journal of Social Science 9(1): 65-83
- Andersson, M. (2010). Blodets och rötternas logik. Internationell adoption välfärdens diskursiva praktik. Diss. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
- Andersson, M. (2010). Recension av Lynn S. Chancer & Beverly Xaviera Watkins. Sociala positioner – en översikt. Sociologisk forskning 47(3): 83-85.
- Andersson, M. (2009.) Familjer utöver det vanliga.Invandrare & minoriteter 36 (3): 39-42
- Andersson, M. (2008). Tillhörighetens gränser. Internationell adoption och ursprungets betydelse i svensk utredningsretorik. Sociologisk forskning 45(3): 57-76.