Sara Kalm
Biographic Data
| ID | 983902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Kalm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalm |
| SIGNATURE | KALM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9315-3326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Academic legitimation strategies by the investment migration industry
The “investment migration industry” comprises for-profit actors who assist states in carrying out investment migration programmes and advise clients on their residence and citizenship planning. In this article, we explore how and why this controversial industry uses academic authority for legitimation. We develop a sociological reading of “academic legitimation strategies” and conceptually differentiate between substantive and symbolic legitimati…
The 1951 refugee convention from a welfare-state perspective
This paper studies how national welfare-state institutions influenced the positions states took on the social rights of refugees during the negotiation, adoption, and ratification of the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Through an analysis of the drafting process and the reservations and interpretative declarations states issued when rat-ifying the Convention, the paper demonstrates that concerns about national w…
La dimension morale des contre-mouvements: Le Cas De L’antiféminisme
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons
In recent years, scholars of migration have created several new immigration policy indexes, but most existing databases have limited temporal scope. They also focus, to a large extent, on the Global North. In this research note, we introduce the Historical Immigration Policy dataset (HIP), which begins to fill these gaps. We first provide an overview of the data and then describe how they offer new insights into immigration policy. We make three …
Citizenship and mobility of the poor: Sweden during the 19th century
The distinctive features of the modern form of citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive; that it establishes legal equality so that membership of the state supersedes all other memberships and allegiances; and that it defines membership as independent of residence. These characteristics largely evolved during the "long nineteenth century", the period between the French Revolution and t…
The Politics of Negative Emotions
Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families
This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and material produced by the WCF itself. We discuss t…
The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Since the 2008 financial crisis, more and more states have started to “sell” citizenships and residence permits to the global economic elite in return for investments. This trade is mediated by transnational firms in the investment citizenship industry, who help governments design and reform the programmes, and assist the wealthy in applying for them. The objective of this article is to explore the activities of these firms, that until now have b…
For love and for life: Emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families
The article explores the relationship between emotions, collective identity and mobilisation in conservative social movements through an analysis of the World Congress of Families’ (WCF) 13th international conference, held in Verona in March 2019. WCF promotes Christian family values and brings together anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-abortion activists, religious leaders, and politicians from around the world. We attended the congress and base …
Citizenship Capital
This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualisation of citizenship and inequality, in order to be able to assess and compare them. For this purpose, elements of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology are utilized. The argument is that citizenship can be tho…
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run
We use historical data on union density and new historical data on policies toward migrants to study the long-run relationship between the strength of trade unions and the social and economic rights of migrants in the Global North. In countries with strong trade unions, there was, for a long time, a widening distance between the rights of migrants and the rights of citizens, probably because the rights of citizens expanded sooner and more quickly…
Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of “Counter-Democracy”
A major aspect of global interdependencies during the last two decades has been the intensified interactions between international organizations (IOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). In this paper, we propose a new way of analysing the potential of CSO inclusion to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore the possibility for CSOs to function as a form of counter-democratic force. This approach contrasts with earlier research t…
Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920
This article puts contemporary debates about the relationship between immigration policy and the welfare state in historical perspective. Relying on new historical data, the article examines the relationship between immigration policy and social policy in Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the modern welfare state emerged. Germany already had comparably strict immigration policies when the German Empire introduced the …
Affective Naturalization: Practices of Citizenship Conferment
In an era of increased mobility, naturalization is crucial for shaping international legal and political identities. It is therefore important to move beyond the legal definition of naturalization in order to comprehend its affective and social meaning. This article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of c…
Om akademiskt hushållsarbete och dess fördelning
On academic housekeeping and its allocationAcademic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done. This article discusses academic housekeeping in a Swedish context, and holds that this topic has been overlooked in research. The aim is therefore to specify the meaning of the concept, to describe the gendered aspects of how aca…
Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives
A democratic critique of precarity
The term ‘precarity’ has become increasingly popular as a way to capture the material and psychological vulnerability resulting from neoliberal economic reforms. This article demonstrates that such precarity is incompatible with democracy. More specifically, it makes two arguments. First, and inspired by Montesquieu’s analysis of ‘the principles’, or public commitments behind different forms of government, it argues that modern democracy is a sui…
Diaspora Strategies as Technologies of Citizenship
In recent years, a growing number of origin countries have begun to more consciously engage with their diasporas abroad. In order to connect and nourish the relationship with their absent citizens, states now use a range of measures that are referred to here as “diaspora strategies”. These include the promotion of dual nationality, the permission of absentee voting, the encouragement of diaspora investments and, the official proclamation of emigr…
The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Since the 2008 financial crisis, more and more states have started to “sell” citizenships and residence permits to the global economic elite in return for investments. This trade is mediated by transnational firms in the investment citizenship industry, who help governments design and reform the programmes, and assist the wealthy in applying for them. The objective of this article is to explore the activities of these firms, that until now have b…
Citizenship Capital
This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualisation of citizenship and inequality, in order to be able to assess and compare them. For this purpose, elements of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology are utilized. The argument is that citizenship can be tho…
Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920
This article puts contemporary debates about the relationship between immigration policy and the welfare state in historical perspective. Relying on new historical data, the article examines the relationship between immigration policy and social policy in Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the modern welfare state emerged. Germany already had comparably strict immigration policies when the German Empire introduced the …
Affective Naturalization: Practices of Citizenship Conferment
In an era of increased mobility, naturalization is crucial for shaping international legal and political identities. It is therefore important to move beyond the legal definition of naturalization in order to comprehend its affective and social meaning. This article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of c…
Diaspora Strategies as Technologies of Citizenship
In recent years, a growing number of origin countries have begun to more consciously engage with their diasporas abroad. In order to connect and nourish the relationship with their absent citizens, states now use a range of measures that are referred to here as “diaspora strategies”. These include the promotion of dual nationality, the permission of absentee voting, the encouragement of diaspora investments and, the official proclamation of emigr…
Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families
This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and material produced by the WCF itself. We discuss t…
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run
We use historical data on union density and new historical data on policies toward migrants to study the long-run relationship between the strength of trade unions and the social and economic rights of migrants in the Global North. In countries with strong trade unions, there was, for a long time, a widening distance between the rights of migrants and the rights of citizens, probably because the rights of citizens expanded sooner and more quickly…
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons
In recent years, scholars of migration have created several new immigration policy indexes, but most existing databases have limited temporal scope. They also focus, to a large extent, on the Global North. In this research note, we introduce the Historical Immigration Policy dataset (HIP), which begins to fill these gaps. We first provide an overview of the data and then describe how they offer new insights into immigration policy. We make three …
A democratic critique of precarity
The term ‘precarity’ has become increasingly popular as a way to capture the material and psychological vulnerability resulting from neoliberal economic reforms. This article demonstrates that such precarity is incompatible with democracy. More specifically, it makes two arguments. First, and inspired by Montesquieu’s analysis of ‘the principles’, or public commitments behind different forms of government, it argues that modern democracy is a sui…
For love and for life: Emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families
The article explores the relationship between emotions, collective identity and mobilisation in conservative social movements through an analysis of the World Congress of Families’ (WCF) 13th international conference, held in Verona in March 2019. WCF promotes Christian family values and brings together anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-abortion activists, religious leaders, and politicians from around the world. We attended the congress and base …
Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of “Counter-Democracy”
A major aspect of global interdependencies during the last two decades has been the intensified interactions between international organizations (IOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). In this paper, we propose a new way of analysing the potential of CSO inclusion to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore the possibility for CSOs to function as a form of counter-democratic force. This approach contrasts with earlier research t…
Citizenship and mobility of the poor: Sweden during the 19th century
The distinctive features of the modern form of citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive; that it establishes legal equality so that membership of the state supersedes all other memberships and allegiances; and that it defines membership as independent of residence. These characteristics largely evolved during the "long nineteenth century", the period between the French Revolution and t…
Diaspora Strategies as Technologies of Citizenship
In recent years, a growing number of origin countries have begun to more consciously engage with their diasporas abroad. In order to connect and nourish the relationship with their absent citizens, states now use a range of measures that are referred to here as “diaspora strategies”. These include the promotion of dual nationality, the permission of absentee voting, the encouragement of diaspora investments and, the official proclamation of emigr…
A democratic critique of precarity
The term ‘precarity’ has become increasingly popular as a way to capture the material and psychological vulnerability resulting from neoliberal economic reforms. This article demonstrates that such precarity is incompatible with democracy. More specifically, it makes two arguments. First, and inspired by Montesquieu’s analysis of ‘the principles’, or public commitments behind different forms of government, it argues that modern democracy is a sui…
Depoliticising Migration: Global Governance and International Migration Narratives
Civil Society Democratising Global Governance? Potentials and Limitations of “Counter-Democracy”
A major aspect of global interdependencies during the last two decades has been the intensified interactions between international organizations (IOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs). In this paper, we propose a new way of analysing the potential of CSO inclusion to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore the possibility for CSOs to function as a form of counter-democratic force. This approach contrasts with earlier research t…
Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920
This article puts contemporary debates about the relationship between immigration policy and the welfare state in historical perspective. Relying on new historical data, the article examines the relationship between immigration policy and social policy in Western Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the modern welfare state emerged. Germany already had comparably strict immigration policies when the German Empire introduced the …
Affective Naturalization: Practices of Citizenship Conferment
In an era of increased mobility, naturalization is crucial for shaping international legal and political identities. It is therefore important to move beyond the legal definition of naturalization in order to comprehend its affective and social meaning. This article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of c…
Om akademiskt hushållsarbete och dess fördelning
On academic housekeeping and its allocationAcademic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done. This article discusses academic housekeeping in a Swedish context, and holds that this topic has been overlooked in research. The aim is therefore to specify the meaning of the concept, to describe the gendered aspects of how aca…
For love and for life: Emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families
The article explores the relationship between emotions, collective identity and mobilisation in conservative social movements through an analysis of the World Congress of Families’ (WCF) 13th international conference, held in Verona in March 2019. WCF promotes Christian family values and brings together anti-gay, anti-feminist and anti-abortion activists, religious leaders, and politicians from around the world. We attended the congress and base …
Citizenship Capital
This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualisation of citizenship and inequality, in order to be able to assess and compare them. For this purpose, elements of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology are utilized. The argument is that citizenship can be tho…
Unions and the rights of migrants in the long run
We use historical data on union density and new historical data on policies toward migrants to study the long-run relationship between the strength of trade unions and the social and economic rights of migrants in the Global North. In countries with strong trade unions, there was, for a long time, a widening distance between the rights of migrants and the rights of citizens, probably because the rights of citizens expanded sooner and more quickly…
The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Since the 2008 financial crisis, more and more states have started to “sell” citizenships and residence permits to the global economic elite in return for investments. This trade is mediated by transnational firms in the investment citizenship industry, who help governments design and reform the programmes, and assist the wealthy in applying for them. The objective of this article is to explore the activities of these firms, that until now have b…
The Politics of Negative Emotions
Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families
This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and material produced by the WCF itself. We discuss t…
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons
In recent years, scholars of migration have created several new immigration policy indexes, but most existing databases have limited temporal scope. They also focus, to a large extent, on the Global North. In this research note, we introduce the Historical Immigration Policy dataset (HIP), which begins to fill these gaps. We first provide an overview of the data and then describe how they offer new insights into immigration policy. We make three …
Citizenship and mobility of the poor: Sweden during the 19th century
The distinctive features of the modern form of citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive; that it establishes legal equality so that membership of the state supersedes all other memberships and allegiances; and that it defines membership as independent of residence. These characteristics largely evolved during the "long nineteenth century", the period between the French Revolution and t…
The 1951 refugee convention from a welfare-state perspective
This paper studies how national welfare-state institutions influenced the positions states took on the social rights of refugees during the negotiation, adoption, and ratification of the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Through an analysis of the drafting process and the reservations and interpretative declarations states issued when rat-ifying the Convention, the paper demonstrates that concerns about national w…
La dimension morale des contre-mouvements: Le Cas De L’antiféminisme
Academic legitimation strategies by the investment migration industry
The “investment migration industry” comprises for-profit actors who assist states in carrying out investment migration programmes and advise clients on their residence and citizenship planning. In this article, we explore how and why this controversial industry uses academic authority for legitimation. We develop a sociological reading of “academic legitimation strategies” and conceptually differentiate between substantive and symbolic legitimati…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works)