Getting serious

So, now that the last exams are graded for this course I was lecturing and Peter and me gave our lecture on Geographical Area Studies, I can seriously concentrate on my first article. It will hopefully be finished by the start of the summer, and I have received some good comments by my second supervisor from Umeå; Dieter Müller. An 8,000 words paper cannot be too broad so the aim and questions need to be specified to quite a large extent. This first article will be about characterising the Dutch that migrate to the Swedish countryside and I will travel to the Netherlands in order to find som more statistics and conduct some telephone-interviews.

The article will be quite quantitative and it will introduce the phenomenon from a more national perspective. It will discuss why I choose to study the Dutch, why they are recruited and why now. Quite simple questions, but the answers may be quite complicated. We'll see! At least, I can thank a good friend of mine for reviewing the first version of the manuscript :)

Now, I'm off to the spring-sun, my "caught a cold"-son and some sports before the weekend starts!
Cheersio, /Meimer

Welcome!

The idea is not to write a diary-like blog, but rather to present excerpts from articles and papers that I write during my Human Geographical PhD-project at the University of Örebro, Sweden. Why do Dutch migrants come to Sweden? What purpose do Swedish communities have when actively recruiting Dutch entrepreneurs? How well integrated are Dutch immigrants in the Swedish local societies? It's questions like these that I will try to answer in the coming 5 years (2007-2012). Welcome and keep on checking this site!
/Meimer