Åsa Söderqvist Forkby

Senior lecturer

Department of Social Work Faculty of Social Sciences

asa.soderqvist@lnu.se

+46 470-76 72 04

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My research groups

Social Work and Migration In the research group Social Work and Migration, we study opportunities and challenges that social work faces in relation to migration and migration’s consequences on…
Social work, disability and ageing (SODA) Within the research community of Social Work, Disability and Ageing (SODA) the research area is related to social problems among people with disabilities and…

My completed research projects

Project: Social wounds and civil repair following forced migration – a case study of narratives of suffering, ethics and morals among Swedish volunteers, social workers and young migrants

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Johansson, J., Sarstrand Marekovic, A., Forkby Söderqvist, Å. (2023). Mellan empowerment och disempowerment : - koordinerande arbete för nyanländas och utrikesföddas etablering på arbetsmarknaden inom lokal aktiveringspolitik. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 30 (2). 583-603.
Status: Published
Forkby Söderqvist, Å. (2022). "Their husbands were sneaking around in the bushes" : The need for anti-racist social work in Swedish activation programmes. Nordic Social Work Research.
Status: Epub ahead of print
Börjesson, U., Forkby Söderqvist, Å. (2020). The concept of home - unaccompanied youths voices and experiences. European Journal of Social Work. 23 (3). 475-485.
Status: Published
Söderqvist, Å., Sjöblom, Y., Bülow, P. (2016). Home sweet home? : Professionals' understanding of ‘home’ within residential care for unaccompanied youths in Sweden. Child & Family Social Work. 21 (4). 591-599.
Status: Published
Söderqvist, Å., Bülow, P.H., Sjöblom, Y. (2016). Att bygga en tillfällig allians–metodologiska frågor vid intervjuer med ensamkommande barn och unga. Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. 23 (3-4). 239-257.
Status: Published
Söderqvist, Å., Bülow, P.H., Sjöblom, Y. (2015). “In Sweden work is more important than the culture, actually!” : the care leaving process for unaccompanied youths from the perspective of social workers. Transnational Social Review. 5 (3). 241-257.
Status: Published
Söderqvist, Å. (2014). Leaving care with “cultural baggage” : the development of an identity within a transnational space. Australian Social Work. 67 (1). 39-54.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Elsrud, T., Söderqvist Forkby, Å. (2021). "They will kill us with that pen" : Administrative violence - another kind of war on young people seeking asylum in Sweden. Presented at 20th Nordic Migration Research conference & 17th ETMU conference, Online/Helsinki, 11-14 January, 2021.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Elsrud, T., Forkby Söderqvist, Å. (2021). ”Ta en svensk med er” : ungdomars och volontärers motståndsstrategier för att hantera rasism under asylprocessen. Rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 101-128.
Johansson, J., Forkby Söderqvist, Å., Wernesjö, U. (2021). Rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration : några avslutande reflektioner. Rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 329-346.
Johansson, J., Forkby Söderqvist, Å., Wernesjö, U. (2021). Inledning : rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration. Rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 17-42.

Report (Other academic)

Söderqvist, Å. (2012). Äntligen hemma. Jönköping, Jönköping University.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Johansson, J., Söderqvist Forkby, Å., Wernesjö, U. (2021). Rasism, antirasism och socialt arbete i spåren av migration. Lund, Studentlitteratur AB. 352.

Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Ahmadi, F., Andréasson, F., Andreasson, J., Bayati, Z., Bečević, Z., et al. (2019). Remissyttrande över utkast till lagrådsremiss : Förlängning av lagen om tillfälliga begränsningar av möjligheten att få uppehållstillstånd i Sverige (Dnr Ju2019/00509/L7). 8.