Pontus Odmalm is Senior Lecturer in Politics.

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Qualifications

• MA (Lund University, Sweden) (1999)
• D.Phil (University of Sussex) (2004)

Research Interests

His research focuses on the social and political impact of migration using a comparative European perspective. Particular research interests include citizenship (national and European), political mobilisation and party competition.

His ESRC-funded project 'Old Politics, New issues and Institutional Constraints: How to Explain Parties' Positions on EU Membership and Immigration' finished in June 2011 and a monograph based on the project's findings was published by Palgrave (October 2014).

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Articles and Chapters

• ‘The Party Politics of Migration and Mobility’ (2019) in Weinar, A., Bonjour, S. and Zhyznomirska, L. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe (in print) (Routledge).
• ‘Comparing and reconceptualising the (populist) radical right’, European Political Science (Online First, 2018) (w/ Jens Rydgren).
• 'The European Mainstream, the Populist Radical Right, and the (alleged) lack of a restrictive alternative' in Odmalm, P and Hepburn, E. (eds.) The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right (Routledge, 2017) (w/ Eve Hepburn) (referenced in the Economist).
• 'Immigration into the mainstream: conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition’, Acta Politica 50(4): 365-378, 2015, (special issue introduction w/ Tim Bale).
• 'Mainstream parties and immigration' in Hartley, C. (ed.), Western Europe 2015 (Routledge).
• 'Getting the balance right? Party competition on immigration and conflicting ideological ‘pulls’', Scandinavian Political Studies 37(3):301-322, 2014, (w/ Betsy Super).
• 'If the issue fits, stay put: cleavage stability, issue compatibility and drastic changes on the immigration ‘issue’', Comparative European Politics 12(6):663-679, 2014, (w/ Betsy Super).
• 'Party competition and positions on immigration: strategic advantages and spatial locations', Comparative European Politics 10(1):1-22, 2012.
• 'Political parties and 'the immigration issue': issue ownership in Swedish parliamentary elections 1991-2010', West European Politics 34(5):1070-1092, 2011.
• 'Turkish organisations in Europe: how national contexts provide different avenues for participation', Turkish Studies 10(2):149-165, 2009.
• 'Going different ways? Right-wing parties and the immigrant issue in Denmark and Sweden', Journal of European Public Policy 15(3):367-382, 2008 (w/ Christoffer Green-Pedersen).  
• ‘One size fits all? European citizenship, national citizenship policies and integration requirements’, Representation 43(1):19-34, 2007.

Books

• The European Mainstream and the Populist Radical Right (co-edited w/ Eve Hepburn) (Routledge, 2017)
• The Party Politics of the EU and Immigration (Palgrave, 2014)
• Migration Policies and Political Participation: Inclusion or Intrusion in Western Europe? (Palgrave, 2005)

Current Teaching and Research

Pontus is responsible for the following courses:

Sem 1: Europe and International Migration (UG)

Sem  2: Approaches to Politics and IR (UG)

Pontus has membership in the following PIR Research Groups: Migration and Citizenship and Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.