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Irma Olofsson

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irma.olofsson@umu.se

+46 90 786 94 56

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Affiliated as research fellow at Department of Geography Section: Geography

Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 2& 3 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Invisible yet essential: the role of seasonal labour migration in Sweden’s green industries

GERUM, 2024:1

Olofsson, Irma

From panic to business as usual: what coronavirus has revealed about migrant labour, agri-food systems and industrial relations in the Nordic countries

Sociologia Ruralis, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 63, (4) : 907-927

Kuns, Brian; Börjeson, Lowe; Fischer, Klara; et al.

'A strong mind and a solid physique': symbolic constructions of migrant workers in Sweden's green industries

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Helsinki University Press 2023, Vol. 13, (2)

Olofsson, Irma; Tollefsen, Aina; Hedberg, Charlotta

Negotiating the Wild West: Variegated neoliberalisation of the Swedish labour migration regime and the wild berry migration industry

Environment and planning A, Sage Publications 2022, Vol. 54, (1) : 33-49

Hedberg, Charlotta; Olofsson, Irma

The absence of workers in discourses of sustainable transition: migrant workers place in Sweden's sustainable transition

Olofsson, Irma

The supply of labour to the green industries in Sweden: inequality and dependence among workers and employers

Olofsson, Irma; Lundmark, Linda

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Research projects

1 August 2015 until 31 October 2020

Grapes of Wrath? Global labour mobility in the wild berry industry affecting rural development in Sweden and Thailand

1 July 2012

MOBILISING THE RURAL: POST-PRODUCTIVISM AND THE NEW ECONOMY