Karin Hjorthen Zelano

Postdoctoral Fellow - ARENA Centre for European Studies
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Academic interests

I am a post-doctoral fellow at ARENA Centre for European Studies (University of Oslo), where I participate in the project "European integration and national law: Compliance in complex institutional orders (COMPLEX)".

My current research investigates role perceptions and problem definitions in the implementation of EU law among representatives of national agencies and courts, with a focus on the Norwegian context, to understand incorporation of EU law in member states.

Other research interests include bureaucratic ideals, governance, European integration, migration and integration policy and social policy.

Background

  • 2018-2022: Scientific editor, Nordicom, Göteborgs Universitet. 
  • 2013-2018: Ph.d. Candidate, Department of political science, University of Gothenburg. Part of the Horizon2020-prosjektet «IMAGINATION: Urban Consequences and Local Governance of CEE Migration (Urban Europe)», PI Prof. P.W.A. Scholten, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  • 2017 (Fall): Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at Das Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung (ISR) der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Wien.
  • 2006- 2011: MA in political science, University of Uppsala.
  • 2009/2010: Exchange student at MA level, SciencesPo, Paris.
Tags: public policy; public administration; European integration; EU; bureaucratic ideals; democracy; migration policy; governance

Selected publications

Scientific articles

Book chapters and Edited Books

  • Bucken- Knapp, G. & Zelano, K.H. (2023), "Binds and Bridges to Protection in Crisis: The Case of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth from Afghanistan in Sweden", in Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World: Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges/ [edited by] Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg, Karl Wennberg, Palgrave Macmillan https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19153-4_5
  • Bucken- Knapp, G., Gabashvili, M. & Zelano, K.  (Eds). From Migration and Integration Challenges to Good Practices: Practitioners’ Perspectives. Georgian Institute of Public Affairs Tbilisi; 2020
  • Zelano, K. (2018). “Governance of the Free Movement of Persons and Workers at the European Level.” In Peter Scholten & Mark van Ostaijen (Eds.), Between Mobility and Migration: the Multi-Level Governance of Intra-European Movement. (pp. 101-123.) Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Bucken-Knapp, G., Hinnfors, J., Spehar, A.  & Zelano, K. (2018).  ”The Multi-Level Governance of Intra-EU Mobility.” In Peter Scholten & Mark van Ostaijen (Eds.), Between Mobility and Migration: the Multi-Level Governance of Intra-European Movement. (pp. 125–140) Cham: Springer International Publishing.
  • Zelano, K. (2016)  "Ställd inför tiggeriet: Svensk samhällsopinion 2015". in Jonas Ohlsson, Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, & Maria Solevid (Eds.), Ekvilibrium (Vol. 66, pp. 179–197). Göteborg: SOM- institutet.

Doctoral thesis

  • Zelano, K. (2018),  Balancing mobility and solidarity : Multilevel governance challenges of East-West EU mobility in Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden (Göteborg studies in politics, 157). [Doctoral thesis.]
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