Consequently studies of economic and labour market

changed. Consequently
studies of economic and
labour market
restructuring in an ‘age of
migration’ (Castles and
Miller 1998) should be
brought together with a
scrutiny of moral-political
concerns, connected with
issues of citizenship,
human rights and social

exclusion/inclusion, into a
single research agenda.
The national welfare state,
its regulation of working
life and its management of
migration, asylum and a
multiethnic citizenry
should still be a privileged
social framework for
research. But incremental
economic
internationalisation and
new forms of governance
demand multi-level studies
on the articulation of the
national with the supra-
national, the local and the
global.
This is the overall rationale
for REMESO:s three
pronged research
programme on Labour
Market Restructuring,
Migration and Social
Inclusion.
 Its first sub-
programme will, based
on a complex
approach to the
political economy of
migration, focus on
societal restructuring
and processes
shaping social
divisions and
contemporary forms of
inclusion/exclusion.
 The second sub-
programme targets
normative aspects of
citizenship. It
elucidates how
institutions and legal
regulations, positive
action or
discriminatory ex-
clusion in working life,
in education and
social security
advance or undermine
individual or collective
welfare for M&EM and
it examines
deliberations con-
nected with the
reformulation of
discourses, norms and
regulations.
 The third sub-
programme explores,
with a perspective on
post-national
governance,
strategies for growth
and multiethnic
inclusion contingent
on the EU’s agendas
for growth,
employment and
social policy.
Meanings of social
inclusion and its antonym
social exclusion (se the
critical review of
Chamberlayne 1997) will
be explored across the
programme, as
instruments for analysing
consequences of
economic change, labour
market restructuring and
changing welfare regimes
and as ambiguous ersatz
terms bottling up
established normative
discourses on citizenship
and social welfare
(Schierup 2006b). This
concern is essential for the
programme’s focus on the
articulation of regimes,
norms and strategies
within current
transformations.
Each sub- programme
includes several projects.
Some focus chiefly on
global or macro-regional
(EU) issues. Sweden
provides the main case
material for others. But an
international comparative
perspective is essential
across the programme, as
is understanding national
cases in articulation with
processes of
supra-/transnationalisation
and
localisation/regionalisation
. Comparative foci are
mainly European but
involve transatlantic and
global perspectives as
well. Each project is
carried out by an
interdisciplinary team
directed by a senior
scholar. Empirical
approaches based on a
complementarity of
quantitative and qualitative
methods are developed
throughout the
programme.