Her dissertation in Ethnology, Culture and Fear: Wartime Everyday Life in Croatia 1991–1992 was defended at the University of Zagreb. Her main areas of research include concepts and practices within the semantic domains of diaspora and transnationalism, relations between place and identity, labor- and refugee-migrants in Sweden, experiences of war and exile, and war-related identification processes. Her major publications include the edited volumes War, Exile, Everyday Life: Cultural Perspectives (with Renata Jambrešc Kirin, 1996), Beyond Integration: Challenges of Belonging in Diaspora and Exile (2001), and Transnational Spaces: Disciplinary Perspectives (2004).