Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing (ePub)

Moa Kindström Dahlin is Associate Professor in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University. She has her basis in legal theory and has a specific interest in the interaction between law and other fields of knowledge and the relation between law and ethics, specifically questions regarding autonomy and integrity. Her work has mostly centred around mental health law but also generally on human rights for people with decreased decision-making capacity, e.g. children, elderly people and persons with mental disabilities.

Oscar L. Larsson is Assistant Professor in Military Studies at the Swedish Defence University. Larsson's main research interest has been the political dimensions of networks and collaboration between public and private actors. His post-doc project was on integration governance in rural contexts in Sweden and the chapter in this book follows from this specific project. Oscar Larson has previously published articles on network governance and sovereign power/domination in Critical Policy Studies, Policy Studies, Regulation & Governance, Constellations, on neo-institutionalism in Critical Review and crisis management in Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy. He is also one of the editors for this volume.

Anneli Winell, is Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Religion at University College Stockholm (former Stockholm School of Theology), and earlier lecturer at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University. Her main research field concerns religion and media, with ongoing projects on integration and migration, and the relevance of "ministry calling" for identity and meaning-making among priest and pastor candidates. Winell is affiliated to CRS - the Religion & Society Research Centre, and the research program The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law, and Democracy, Uppsala University.