Anna Lundberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Lundberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Lundberg |
| SIGNATURE | LUNDBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9509-7340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is governed by religious and state legal norms intersecting with global child rights standards. Sweden represent…
Folkmord och illegal ockupation gör en akademisk bojkott nödvändig
Border Work as socio-legal activist research
This article develops Border Work (BW) as a theoretical concept and methodological approach, underexplored in socio-legal scholar-activism, through analysing two distinct examples: Noor, who applied for protection, and her individual and collective struggle for residency and the making of a manifesto against borders. While both examples depart from feminist methodology, the differences are stark: Noor, excluded from democratic processes, faced de…
How do changes to social rights happen? Tracing changes in the right to social assistance for irregularised migrants in Sweden
This article investigates changes in the right to social assistance – a means-tested cash support programme, regulated by the Social Services Act – for irregularised migrants over a period of four decades, 1982–2022. The article makes the case that austerity policies have hollowed out the right to support, with significant repercussions for those with irregularised residency status. In doing so, it draws on a range of empirical data to shed light…
Legal mobilization dilemmas in the Nordics – an autoethnographic reflection on the role of scholars in the asylum commission
The present article investigates key dilemmas in collective legal mobilization initiatives in the field of asylum and migrants' rights. Focusing on my own experiences from working in the Asylum Commission - a trans-sectional mobilization initiative that ran in Sweden from 2019 to 2022, involving researchers, civil society representatives, and professionals - I analyze two central dilemmas that characterized our work. First, I consider how we coll…
Banishment
Banishment concludes the keyword discussion by arguing that we can understand the exclusionary practices of welfare states as a politics of destitution, which ultimately leads to the banishment of unwanted individuals. It argues that banishment can be helpful as a conceptual lens through which to understand the purposeful strategies that render individuals deportable, whether citizens or non-citizens
The welfare state
The first keyword, Welfare State, sets out to problematise the term itself. The welfare state is a national construct, a ‘national social state’ as Etienne Balibar calls it. Thus, transnational or global migration is often construed as a disruptive force, potentially destabilising the welfare state and the nation. This keyword entry critically examines common conceptions of what the welfare state should provide. It delineates some of the ways tha…
They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden
Official calls for “failed” asylum seekers to leave Sweden ignore the difficulties and harms befalling stateless people who cannot return to previous countries of residence because they lack citizenship. Stateless people are caught in limbo, a position where they have no prospects of return or of attaining a residence permit in a predictable future. To learn the underlying logics and consequences of such limbo and how it is (re)produced in the Sw…
Anti-jewish racism. Exploring the Swedish racial regime: Hansalbin Sältenberg
bokanmälan doktorsavhandling
Transversal sanctuary enactments in Sweden: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
This article contributes to scholarly discussions about sanctuary enactments. We analyse transversal sanctuary enactments, i.e. when migrants in search of protection are provided with basic welfare and an opportunity to remain, in contestation of the state's migration politics. The study draws on empirical data collected through a transdisciplinary research initiative in Sweden, the Asylum Commission. The analysis is based on interviews with 90 p…
Governing Through Ignorance: Swedish Authorities’ Treatment of Detained and Non-deported Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Tensions between migration enforcement and migrants' health and rights have gained renewed urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article critically analyses how the pandemic has affected detained and deportable people in Sweden. Building on an activist methodological approach and collaboration, based on a survey conducted inside Swedish detention centres during the pandemic and the authors' research and activist engagement with migrants who …
Även om du är analfabet så antar jag att du ändå har en tidsuppfattning som alla andra.”: En kvalitativ analys av temporala motsättningar i svensk asylbyråkrati
Artikeln undersöker temporal styrning i den svenska asylbyråkratin genom en kvalitativ analys av tio familjers asylakter. Dessa består av över 5 000 sidors dokumentation: asylutredningsprotokoll, beslut, domar, intyg, överklaganden, inlagor, personliga brev, minnesnoteringar med mera. Studien fokuserar särskilt på Migrationsverkets beslut och de muntliga utredningar som myndighetens handläggare har protokollfört. Tre inneboende och överlappande m…
Festival Venue that makes sense- A study of Skansen arena in Stockholm
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the open-air museum of Skansen in Stockholm as venue for celebration of Persian Fire Festival is assessed by the festival’s visitors. The study is based on a delimited part of a larger online survey with 280 completed questionnaires including both close-ended and open-ended questions, and a qualitative thematic analysis method has been used in this paper. The results show a high level of appreciatio…
Rättssäkerheten och solidariteten - Vad hände: En antologi om mottagande av människor på flykt
Denna antologi är ett arbete som varenda människa med något intresse för mänsklighet och samhällsfrågor måste läsa och reflektera över. De samlade berättelserna, undersökningarna och rapporterna som presenteras i antologin utgör en tvärvetenskaplig samtidsanalys över det svenska myndighetssystemet och dess inverkan på människoöden, kanske för generationer framåt
Is, träd och andra feministiska figurationer. Klimatforskning och den scenkonstnärliga sinnlighetens betydelse
This article investigates the ways in which research on climate change and performing arts converge, intersect, and fertilize each other. Through conversation, the researchers examine the questions: What can researchers learn from art-based work methods regarding knowledge and management of climate change? What can be embodied in a scientific text, or conveyed through performing arts? The article is inspired by approaches to epistemology and onto…
Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work
Firewalls are clear divisions between border policing and the provision of basic social rights. They have a dual character: to ensure that no information collected with the purpose of safeguarding basic social rights should be shared for immigration control purposes; and that migrants should not be subject to immigration control when being present at, or in the vicinity, of religious, private and public institutions upholding and providing social…
Sanctuary Practices in Scandinavian Transnational Cities: The Case of Public Libraries
The article explores sanctuary practices within public institutions by examining instances where public libraries in Denmark (Copenhagen), Norway (Oslo) and Sweden (Malmö and Stockholm) open up their services for persons who lack residence permits on state territory (so-called irregular migrants). Public libraries are understood to be protected public spheres where the right to information and the freedom of expression are safeguarded. Such space…
Constructing Terminology and Defining Concepts for Gender Studies in Norway and Sweden
This position paper by four key researchers from two projects (one in Norway and one in Sweden) aims to define and discuss terms and concepts in Gender Studies. It is inspired by the concept of dialogue as a method of academic writing and discusses the methods, results, challenges and choices made in the two projects. While they both aimed to create and discuss a vocabulary for Gender Studies and gender research, the projects took shape from diff…
Deportability Status as Basis for Human Rights Claims: Irregularised Migrants' Right to Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses the issue of the right to health care for irregularised migrants in Sweden, from a human rights perspective. An extended right to health care for irregularised migrants came into effect through a legislative amendment in 2013. By exploring the legislative process before the new Act on Health Care to Some Foreigners Who Reside In Sweden Without the Necessary Permits in 2013, we show how the Act uses ‘deportability’ as a lega…
Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand a…
Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised
The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to …
Who provides the conditions for human life? Sanctuary movements in Sweden as both contesting and working with state agencies
This article analyses sanctuary initiatives intended to change the situation of ‘irregularised residents’. Through fieldwork, three main activities are identified: assistance for welfare services, alternatives to inaccessible services, and inventing new ways of organising togetherness in the city. The role of activists in the initiatives links to discussions within Critical Human Rights literature, which emphasise the anti-institutionalist origin…
I dialog. Intersektionella läsningar av hemhörighet, migration och kunskapsproduktion
The dialogue-based article departs from our persistent research engagement with intersectional feminist approaches and questions related to racialisation, representation, locationality and positionality. We focus on the notion of home and homelessness, longing and belonging, migration and knowledge production. Some of the troubling questions we engage with are: How are the (im)possibility of feeling at home, migratory subject positions, and knowl…
Jobbiga känslor på jobbet: Feministisk aktionsforkning, känsloarbete och metodutveckling
This article is based on a research project carried out at a theatre for children and youth. The project focus was interactive children’s theatre, a format that allows the audience to interact with the actors in improvised stage art. This format is highly interesting from an artistic point of view: it gives the young audience opportunities to influence the theatrical flow and to experience a mixture of fiction and reality, thus enabling audience …
Struggles over human rights in local government – the case of access to education for undocumented youth in Malmö, Sweden
The present article elaborates on struggles over the inclusion and exclusion of undocumented children and young people in the Swedish school system. Through conducting an in-depth case study on the issue of access to school in the city of Malmö in Sweden, our analysis demonstrates how the right to education for undocumented migrant children is subject to a process of struggle between divergent discourses on children’s human rights. Internal debat…
Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised
The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to …
Firewalls: A necessary tool to enable social rights for undocumented migrants in social work
Firewalls are clear divisions between border policing and the provision of basic social rights. They have a dual character: to ensure that no information collected with the purpose of safeguarding basic social rights should be shared for immigration control purposes; and that migrants should not be subject to immigration control when being present at, or in the vicinity, of religious, private and public institutions upholding and providing social…
Transversal sanctuary enactments in Sweden: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
This article contributes to scholarly discussions about sanctuary enactments. We analyse transversal sanctuary enactments, i.e. when migrants in search of protection are provided with basic welfare and an opportunity to remain, in contestation of the state's migration politics. The study draws on empirical data collected through a transdisciplinary research initiative in Sweden, the Asylum Commission. The analysis is based on interviews with 90 p…
Who provides the conditions for human life? Sanctuary movements in Sweden as both contesting and working with state agencies
This article analyses sanctuary initiatives intended to change the situation of ‘irregularised residents’. Through fieldwork, three main activities are identified: assistance for welfare services, alternatives to inaccessible services, and inventing new ways of organising togetherness in the city. The role of activists in the initiatives links to discussions within Critical Human Rights literature, which emphasise the anti-institutionalist origin…
Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum in Sweden: Living Conditions from a Child-Centred Perspective
The article presents unaccompanied refugee children’s current situation in Sweden from a child-centred perspective. Interviews were conducted with 26 children. A key finding was that the way individuals perceived their situation was highly dependent on the status of their asylum application. In cases where all instances of the Swedish asylum process had been involved, the children described their situation as significantly difficult. At first, th…
The Best Interests of the Child Principle in Swedish Asylum Cases: The Marginalization of Children's Rights
This article is based on a two-year research project, ‘The Best Interests of the Child – From Words to Deeds’. The aim of the article is to present and highlight findings on the discrepancy between the policy of the ‘best interests’ principle and its implementation in the asylum application procedures at the Swedish Migration Board. There is a clear ambition to implement the principle of the best interests of the child in the Swedish asylum proce…
Governing Through Ignorance: Swedish Authorities’ Treatment of Detained and Non-deported Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Tensions between migration enforcement and migrants' health and rights have gained renewed urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article critically analyses how the pandemic has affected detained and deportable people in Sweden. Building on an activist methodological approach and collaboration, based on a survey conducted inside Swedish detention centres during the pandemic and the authors' research and activist engagement with migrants who …
Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand a…
Education as Hospitality
This article considers the relationship between education and hospitality, illustrated in a case that sparked a highly politicised debate on the topic. In 2012, several schools in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, excluded students from the regular process governing access to school as well as special support otherwise normally provided based on the students’ unauthorised legal status. The controversy sparked a debate in the local media, academ…
Grossly Inadequate: Feminist Figurations, Neo-liberal Governmentality, and Comic Culture
Let me tell you a little story. When I was about 10, encouraged by my parents, I signed up for a cross-country skiing competition.1 The day of the event came, I heard the starting signal, and off I
They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden
Official calls for “failed” asylum seekers to leave Sweden ignore the difficulties and harms befalling stateless people who cannot return to previous countries of residence because they lack citizenship. Stateless people are caught in limbo, a position where they have no prospects of return or of attaining a residence permit in a predictable future. To learn the underlying logics and consequences of such limbo and how it is (re)produced in the Sw…
Sanctuary Practices in Scandinavian Transnational Cities: The Case of Public Libraries
The article explores sanctuary practices within public institutions by examining instances where public libraries in Denmark (Copenhagen), Norway (Oslo) and Sweden (Malmö and Stockholm) open up their services for persons who lack residence permits on state territory (so-called irregular migrants). Public libraries are understood to be protected public spheres where the right to information and the freedom of expression are safeguarded. Such space…
Deportability Status as Basis for Human Rights Claims: Irregularised Migrants' Right to Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses the issue of the right to health care for irregularised migrants in Sweden, from a human rights perspective. An extended right to health care for irregularised migrants came into effect through a legislative amendment in 2013. By exploring the legislative process before the new Act on Health Care to Some Foreigners Who Reside In Sweden Without the Necessary Permits in 2013, we show how the Act uses ‘deportability’ as a lega…
I dialog. Intersektionella läsningar av hemhörighet, migration och kunskapsproduktion
The dialogue-based article departs from our persistent research engagement with intersectional feminist approaches and questions related to racialisation, representation, locationality and positionality. We focus on the notion of home and homelessness, longing and belonging, migration and knowledge production. Some of the troubling questions we engage with are: How are the (im)possibility of feeling at home, migratory subject positions, and knowl…
Struggles over human rights in local government – the case of access to education for undocumented youth in Malmö, Sweden
The present article elaborates on struggles over the inclusion and exclusion of undocumented children and young people in the Swedish school system. Through conducting an in-depth case study on the issue of access to school in the city of Malmö in Sweden, our analysis demonstrates how the right to education for undocumented migrant children is subject to a process of struggle between divergent discourses on children’s human rights. Internal debat…
Med passionen som drivkraft: En intersektionell analys av genusvetenskap, de studerande och arbetslivet
Based on a national Swedish survey among former gender studies students followed by focus group interviews, this article investigates the students’ perspectives on gender studies and work. We ask how they understand their education in between generic critical knowledge and the labor market. How can the students’ backgrounds and talk about gender studies and work be understood intersectionally? What does it mean for the future of gender studies? T…
People Out of Place'? Advocates' Negotiations on Children's Participation in the Asylum Application Process in Sweden
This article concerns legal representatives’ negotiations around the principle of children’s best interests and children’s right to participation according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in cases of families applying for asylum in Sweden. Using material from nine interviews with children’s advocates, we analyse their strategies for obtaining narratives from children without putting them in a vulnerable position and examine the tens…
Queering Laughter in the Stockholm Pride Parade
This article analyses the Stockholm Pride parade as an effective contemporary political stage, built on laughter and festivity. Taking its political point of departure in what is seen as being highly private and intimate, sexuality and the sexed body, the parade turns upside down one of the most central ideas of modernity: the dichotomy of public and private. Combining the theory of carnival laughter with queer theory, the article illustrates the…
Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden
In the past decades a large number of students have taken courses and degrees in Gender Studies around Europe and proceeded to find employment. This article is based on a quantitative and qualitative study carried out in 2012 of Gender Studies students in Sweden, their education and employment. The design of the study was inspired by a large European research project investigating Women’s Studies in Europe and concerned with the motives for doing…
Providing Rights Through Individual Compassion: The ambivalent rights talk within refugee resettlement work
The article analyses the social constructions of rights as they come about through Swedish delegations preparing refugees for resettlement in Sweden, under the Cultural Orientation Programme (COP). COPs are analysed as an activity that manifests a need to convey rights. Fieldwork was conducted through video observations of COPs in Kenya and Sudan. Our empirical findings show how the Swedish officials engage in talks about rights through positioni…
Will We be Tested on This: Schoolgirls, Neoliberalism and the Comic Grotesque in Swedish Contemporary Youth Theatre
This article is based on an ethnographic participation study of the production of a play called All about the ADHD and A+ Children of Noisy Village (ännu mer om alla vi ADHD- och MVG-barn i Bullerbyn) staged at one of Sweden's most prominent playhouses for children's and youth theatre: ung scen/öst. Within the familiar setting of the classroom, the play takes on the challenging task of questioning and scrutinizing the complex and tangled situatio…
Lapplisan som ikon - om sambandet mellan narrativ och offentlighet
The female traffic warden is a phenomenon frequently debated and discussed in various contexts. In narratives articulated in advertising brochures, on the radio and television, on the Internet and in populär culture, the female traffic warden is sometimes described in rather offensive and misogynist terms. In this artide I try to examine the ways in which the female traffic warden is described, and how one might be able to explain the strong nega…
The Return to Society. Marriage and Family Formation after Hospital Treatment for Veneral Diseases in Sundsvall, 1844-1892
Le couplage des données informatisées des registres paroissiaux et des dossiers de patients hospitalisés permet d'apprécier dans quelle mesure la vie sociale était affectée par un traitement pour maladie vénérienne dans la Suède du XIXe siècle. L'étude compare ici les taux de migration, de mariage et de formation d'une famille des ex-patients et ceux d'une cohorte de référence de l'ensemble de la population. À Sundsvall, dans la conjoncture d'un …
Lapplisan som ikon - om sambandet mellan narrativ och offentlighet
The female traffic warden is a phenomenon frequently debated and discussed in various contexts. In narratives articulated in advertising brochures, on the radio and television, on the Internet and in populär culture, the female traffic warden is sometimes described in rather offensive and misogynist terms. In this artide I try to examine the ways in which the female traffic warden is described, and how one might be able to explain the strong nega…
Queering Laughter in the Stockholm Pride Parade
This article analyses the Stockholm Pride parade as an effective contemporary political stage, built on laughter and festivity. Taking its political point of departure in what is seen as being highly private and intimate, sexuality and the sexed body, the parade turns upside down one of the most central ideas of modernity: the dichotomy of public and private. Combining the theory of carnival laughter with queer theory, the article illustrates the…
Paying the Price of Citizenship: Gender and Social Policy on Venereal Disease in Stockholm, 1919-1944
This article studies how policy on venereal disease participated in the construction of twentieth-century Swedish citizenship. Contact tracing and mandatory medical treatment, the two cornerstones of the Swedish attempt to eradicate venereal disease, became part of the contemporary citizenship discourse. Policy on venereal disease in Sweden was administered by infectious disease officers in every county and provincial physicians in every district…
The Best Interests of the Child Principle in Swedish Asylum Cases: The Marginalization of Children's Rights
This article is based on a two-year research project, ‘The Best Interests of the Child – From Words to Deeds’. The aim of the article is to present and highlight findings on the discrepancy between the policy of the ‘best interests’ principle and its implementation in the asylum application procedures at the Swedish Migration Board. There is a clear ambition to implement the principle of the best interests of the child in the Swedish asylum proce…
Klimat i ord och handling
Från redaktionen
Dags att prata om jämställdheten
Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum in Sweden: Living Conditions from a Child-Centred Perspective
The article presents unaccompanied refugee children’s current situation in Sweden from a child-centred perspective. Interviews were conducted with 26 children. A key finding was that the way individuals perceived their situation was highly dependent on the status of their asylum application. In cases where all instances of the Swedish asylum process had been involved, the children described their situation as significantly difficult. At first, th…
Grossly Inadequate: Feminist Figurations, Neo-liberal Governmentality, and Comic Culture
Let me tell you a little story. When I was about 10, encouraged by my parents, I signed up for a cross-country skiing competition.1 The day of the event came, I heard the starting signal, and off I
Forskningens bredd är dess styrka
Gyllene tider i svensk genusforskning
People Out of Place'? Advocates' Negotiations on Children's Participation in the Asylum Application Process in Sweden
This article concerns legal representatives’ negotiations around the principle of children’s best interests and children’s right to participation according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in cases of families applying for asylum in Sweden. Using material from nine interviews with children’s advocates, we analyse their strategies for obtaining narratives from children without putting them in a vulnerable position and examine the tens…
Genusforskning + konstnärlig forskning = sant
Rörelse i tid och rum
Will We be Tested on This: Schoolgirls, Neoliberalism and the Comic Grotesque in Swedish Contemporary Youth Theatre
This article is based on an ethnographic participation study of the production of a play called All about the ADHD and A+ Children of Noisy Village (ännu mer om alla vi ADHD- och MVG-barn i Bullerbyn) staged at one of Sweden's most prominent playhouses for children's and youth theatre: ung scen/öst. Within the familiar setting of the classroom, the play takes on the challenging task of questioning and scrutinizing the complex and tangled situatio…
Education as Hospitality
This article considers the relationship between education and hospitality, illustrated in a case that sparked a highly politicised debate on the topic. In 2012, several schools in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, excluded students from the regular process governing access to school as well as special support otherwise normally provided based on the students’ unauthorised legal status. The controversy sparked a debate in the local media, academ…
Med passionen som drivkraft: En intersektionell analys av genusvetenskap, de studerande och arbetslivet
Based on a national Swedish survey among former gender studies students followed by focus group interviews, this article investigates the students’ perspectives on gender studies and work. We ask how they understand their education in between generic critical knowledge and the labor market. How can the students’ backgrounds and talk about gender studies and work be understood intersectionally? What does it mean for the future of gender studies? T…
Struggles over human rights in local government – the case of access to education for undocumented youth in Malmö, Sweden
The present article elaborates on struggles over the inclusion and exclusion of undocumented children and young people in the Swedish school system. Through conducting an in-depth case study on the issue of access to school in the city of Malmö in Sweden, our analysis demonstrates how the right to education for undocumented migrant children is subject to a process of struggle between divergent discourses on children’s human rights. Internal debat…
Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden
In the past decades a large number of students have taken courses and degrees in Gender Studies around Europe and proceeded to find employment. This article is based on a quantitative and qualitative study carried out in 2012 of Gender Studies students in Sweden, their education and employment. The design of the study was inspired by a large European research project investigating Women’s Studies in Europe and concerned with the motives for doing…
Providing Rights Through Individual Compassion: The ambivalent rights talk within refugee resettlement work
The article analyses the social constructions of rights as they come about through Swedish delegations preparing refugees for resettlement in Sweden, under the Cultural Orientation Programme (COP). COPs are analysed as an activity that manifests a need to convey rights. Fieldwork was conducted through video observations of COPs in Kenya and Sudan. Our empirical findings show how the Swedish officials engage in talks about rights through positioni…
Deportability Status as Basis for Human Rights Claims: Irregularised Migrants' Right to Health Care in Sweden
This article discusses the issue of the right to health care for irregularised migrants in Sweden, from a human rights perspective. An extended right to health care for irregularised migrants came into effect through a legislative amendment in 2013. By exploring the legislative process before the new Act on Health Care to Some Foreigners Who Reside In Sweden Without the Necessary Permits in 2013, we show how the Act uses ‘deportability’ as a lega…
Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
Through an analysis of 100 asylum decisions and 10 interviews with 20 asylum officers at the Swedish Migration Agency this article reveals two intricate processes through which children’s rights are displaced in the Swedish asylum process; by overlooking children’s individual claims for asylum through a circle of neglect, and negating children’s best interests. The article demonstrates how the balancing act between migration control on one hand a…
Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics: New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised
The politics of migration has become increasingly prominent as a site of struggle. However, the active subjecthood of people on the move in precarious situations is often overlooked. Irregular migration struggles raise questions about how to understand the agency of people who are marginalised. What does it mean to engage people produced as ‘irregular’ as active subjects of trans-border politics? And what new research strategies can we employ to …
Who provides the conditions for human life? Sanctuary movements in Sweden as both contesting and working with state agencies
This article analyses sanctuary initiatives intended to change the situation of ‘irregularised residents’. Through fieldwork, three main activities are identified: assistance for welfare services, alternatives to inaccessible services, and inventing new ways of organising togetherness in the city. The role of activists in the initiatives links to discussions within Critical Human Rights literature, which emphasise the anti-institutionalist origin…
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