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Aina Tollefsen
Research qualifications:
Docent
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E-mail
aina.tollefsen@umu.se
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+46 90 786 78 84
Works as
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Associate professor
at
Department of Geography
Section: Geography
Location
Samhällsvetarhuset, Plan 2& 3
Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå
Publications
Publications
Research
Research
2025
Trajectories of belonging among Nordic rural youth: strengthening, weakening, or conflicting belonging over time
Growing up rural: qualitative longitudinal explorations of young people living in the Nordic countries
, Palgrave Macmillan 2025 : 145-170
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Vehkalahti, Kaisa; Ristaniemi, Helena; et al.
2025
Girls’ school-to-work transitions into male dominated workplaces
Journal of Vocational Education and Training
, Routledge 2025, Vol. 77, (3) : 563-581
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina
2025
Rural Nordic youth’s transition to upper secondary school: challenges and dilemmas
Growing up rural: qualitative longitudinal explorations of young people living in the Nordic countries
, Palgrave Macmillan 2025 : 199-231
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; et al.
2025
Young people’s projective imagination growing up in rural Nordic countries
Growing up rural: qualitative longitudinal explorations of young people living in the Nordic countries
, Palgrave Macmillan 2025 : 257-288
Østergaard, Jeanette; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Rönnlund, Maria; et al.
2024
School-to-work transitions in rural North Sweden: staying on in a reviving local labor market
Journal of Youth Studies
, Routledge 2024, Vol. 27, (9) : 1358-1375
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina
2023
'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
2022
Spatial justice and social reproduction in the Nordic periphery
Socio-spatial theory in Nordic geography: intellectual histories and critical interventions
, Springer 2022 : 217-229
Eriksson, Madeleine; Tollefsen, Aina
2021
Genusregimer och kvinnors identiteter som industriarbetare: Röster från Volvofabriker i Sverige, Mexiko och Sydafrika
Ojämlika arbetsplatser: hierarkier, diskriminering och strategier för jämlikhet
, Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2021 : 165-191
Mulinari, Diana; Räthzel, Nora; Tollefsen, Aina
2021
Globaliserande produktionsvillkor, arbetsmigration och genus
Feministiska perspektiv på global politik
, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021 : 153-165
Tollefsen, Aina
2020
Gender regimes and women’s labour: Volvo factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa
Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential writings on Intersectionality, Labour and Ecofeminism
, London: Zed Books 2020 : 187-207
Räthzel, Nora; Mulinari, Diana; Tollefsen, Aina
2020
Changing labor standards and ‘subordinated inclusion’: Thai migrant workers in the Swedish forest berry industry
International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions
, London: Routledge 2020 : 121-138
Tollefsen, Aina; Hedberg, Charlotta; Eriksson, Madeleine; et al.
2019
From blueberry cakes to labor strikes: Negotiating “legitimate labor” and “ethical food” in supply chains
Geoforum
, Elsevier 2019, (105) : 43-53
Eriksson, Madeleine; Tollefsen, Aina; Lundgren, Anna Sofia
2018
The production of the rural landscape and its labour: the development of supply chain capitalism in the Swedish berry industry
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
, De Gruyter Open 2018, Vol. 40, (40) : 68-81
Eriksson, Madeleine; Tollefsen, Aina
2016
Rum: samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv
Stockholm: Liber 2016
Rönnlund, Maria; Tollefsen, Aina
2015
Platsens (natur)resurser och ortshierarkins logik
Provins
, Umeå: Norrländska Litteratursällskapet 2015, Vol. 4, (34) : 44-51
Eriksson, Madeleine; Samuelsson, Johannes; Tollefsen, Aina
2015
New figurations of labor in gendered global circuits: migrant workers in the forest berry industry in Norrland, Sweden
Remapping gender, place and mobility: global confluences and local particularities in Nordic peripheries
, Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate 2015 : 127-142
Eriksson, Madeleine; Tollefsen, Aina
2015
Globalisation
Arctic human development report: regional processes and global linkages
, Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers 2015 : 401-425
Keskitalo, E. Carina H.; Southcott, Chris
2014
Konkreta rum och abstrakta platser: arbete, makt, företag i centrum och periferi
Kritiska gemenskaper: att skriva feministisk och postkolonial vetenskap : en vänbok till Diana Mulinari
, Lund: Lunds universitet 2014 : 95-101
Tollefsen, Aina
2014
Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers
London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014
Tollefsen, Aina; Räthzel, Nora; Mulinari, Diana
2013
'Of Berries and Seasonal Work': The Swedish Berry Industry and the Disciplining of Labour Migration from Thailand
Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People
, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2013 : ?-
Eriksson, Madeleine; Tollefsen, Aina
2013
Produktionens ändrade organisering - fallet AB Volvo
Bortom horisonten: fackets vägval i globaliseringens tid
Tollefsen, Aina
2012
Globalisering
Begreppbart
Jensen, Tommy; Tollefsen, Aina
2011
Everyday working lives in a transnational corporation in Mexico: the contradictory cooptation of trade unionists
Economic and Industrial Democracy
, Vol. 32, (3) : 379-399
Mulinari, Diana; Räthzel, Nora; Tollefsen, Aina
2011
Rural–urban migration, economic transition, and status of female industrial workers in Lao PDR
Population, Space and Place
, John Wiley & Sons 2011, Vol. 17, (5) : 421-434
Phouxay, Kabmanivanh; Tollefsen, Aina
2010
Tourism policy for poverty reduction
International Journal of Culture and Tourism Research
, Honam, Korea: World Cultural Tourism Association, Dept. of Tourism Management, Honam University , Korea 2010, Vol. 3, (1) : 131-150
Phommavong, Saithong; Müller, Dieter K.; Tollefsen, Aina
2010
Internal migration and socio-economic change in Laos.
Migration Letters
, Birmingham, Alabama 35201 USA: MetaPress 2010, Vol. 7, (1) : 91-104
Phouxay, Kabmanivanh; Malmberg, Gunnar; Tollefsen, Aina
2010
Talking about fear of violence in public space: Female and male narratives about threatening situations in Umeå, Sweden
Social & cultural geography (Print)
, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group 2010, Vol. 11, (1) : 1-15
Sandberg, Linda; Tollefsen, Aina
2008
Unvollendete Transformationen: Widerstreitende Zugehörigkeiten, aufbrechende Geschlechterverhältnisse, Stadt-Land-Beziehungen : Arbeitsalltag in einem europäischen transnationalen Unternehmen in Mexiko
Forum Kritische Psychologie
, (52) : 29-51
Räthzel, Nora; Mulinari, Diana; Tollefsen, Aina; et al.
2006
Definitionens makt
Bortom etnicitet: Festskrift till Alexandra Ålund
, Umeå: Boréa 2006 : 113-118
Tollefsen, Aina
2006
Transnational citizens or circulating semi-proletarians?: A study of migration circulation between Sweden and Asia, Latin America and Africa between 1968 and 2002.
Population, Space and Place
, John Wiley & Sons 2006, Vol. 12, (6) : 517-527
Tollefsen, Aina; Lindgren, Urban
2004
Gästarbetare, illegala invandrare eller nya amerikaner?: Om arbetskraftsinvandring och integration i Kalifornien
Arbetsrapporter
, 1
Tollefsen, Aina
2000
Seasons of migrations to the North: a study of biographies and narrative identities in US-Mexican and Swedish-Chilean return movements
GERUM
, 2000:3
Tollefsen Altamirano, Aina
1997
Feminist theories and migration research: making sense in the data feast?
Refuge
, Vol. 16, (4) : 4-8
Tollefsen Altamirano, Aina
1995
Return migration on the policy agenda in Sweden
Applied Geography
, Elsevier 1995, Vol. 15, (3) : 267-278
Tollefsen Altamirano, Aina
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Research projects
1 January 2021 until 30 November 2024
Youth in transitions – a qualitative longitudinal study on education and career trajectories among young people in rural Sweden (2015-2024)
1 April 2020 until 31 March 2023
Life at the Frontier: The Impact of Social Frontiers on the Social Mobility & Integration of Migrants
1 February 2016 until 30 June 2019
Urban Africa’s Double Burden of Malnutrition and the Ameliorative Potential of Household Food Production
1 January 2016 until 15 October 2021
Elderly migrants' living conditions and life strategies in Sweden
1 January 2012 until 31 December 2016
Transnational migration in the wild-berry industry – labour market deregulation and new spatial representations
1 January 2011 until 31 December 2013
Low Carbon at Work: Modelling agents and organisations to achieve a transition to a low carbon Europe
1 January 2008 until 30 December 2010
Trade Unions, Globalisation, and Environmental Degradation
1 January 2005 until 31 December 2007
Globalisation and everyday working life
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