Ioanna Blasko

 Ioanna Blasko

Ioanna Blasko is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests include the meaning of 'integration', highly skilled refugee integration, and labour market and workplace inclusion. Her dissertation uses qualitative methods to examine the workplace and labour market integration of highly skilled refugees in Sweden, with case studies on engineers with a refugee background.

Hosting institute
  • Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
Current affiliation
  • Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
Memberships
Key expertise
  • Highly skilled migration
  • Refugee labour market integration
  • Refugee workplace integration
  • Refugee integration infrastructure in Sweden
  • Refugee engineers
Regional expertise
  • Schweden

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Integration And Social Participation
  • Work / Labour Market
Disciplines
  • Geography

Professional Career

Relevant publications

  • Blasko, I..One step forward, two steps back’: labour market integration paths of highly-skilled refugees in Sweden.2023.Globalisation, Societies and Education.DOI.
  • Blasko, I., Zakharov, N..Mixed Race and Ethnicity in Sweden: A Sociological Analysis. In The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, edited by Zarine Rocha and Peter Aspinall.2020.