Thomas Jensen

Thomas is no longer employed by Nordregio, for contact or further information, please contact nordregio@nordregio.org An urban planner with a focus on data collection, data analysis, and data visualisation using GIS maps. High interest in...

Immigrants and the Nordic labour market – a complicated relationship

“Education matters a lot in the Nordic countries. We have noticed that people coming from outside of the EU have a harder time integrating into the labour market than those coming from inside the European Union. And one of the main reasons for...

Integration and inclusion of newcomers – high on the Nordic agenda

According to numbers issued by UNHCR, there are currently 82.4 million people in the world forced to leave their homes behind. Amongst those, many are women under the age of 18. One of the major disruptive events – the Second World War-caused...

Press room

As a leading Nordic research institute within the broad research fields, Nordregio is being often mentioned in various media channels. Nordregio’s studies raise questions to many relevant Nordic, European, and worldwide topics, and researchers...

6 July: Nordregio joins Almedalen Week 2021 online

This year, Nordregio joins the biggest political festival in Sweden, Almedalen Week, on 6 July to share the latest on COVID-19 impacts on Nordic Co-operation, integration and how to steer circular economy processes forward. On 6 July, you can tune...

Nordregio at the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences

The Arctic is home to approximately four million people, counting numerous ethnicities among its inhabitants and more than ten percent of the total population living in there is Indigenous peoples. All aspects of human existence in the Arctic in the...

Segregation, Covid-19 and living conditions – myths meet research

Join us on 11 May for the webinar launch of the new report to find out more and join the discussion. The media picture and the political argumentation in for example Denmark, claim that the spread of infection and excess mortality in vulnerable...

Segregation, Covid-19 and living conditions – myths meet research

Why has the pandemic hit immigrant groups the hardest? The media picture and the political argumentation in for example Denmark, claim that the spread of infection and excess mortality in vulnerable housing areas is due to a lack of language skills...