A Lindberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38701 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Lindberg |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Lindberg |
| ASSINATURA | LINDBERG A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0161-0893 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 108 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Deportation Diplomacy
This article traces how, despite protracted violence in Syria under the Assad regime, deportation-oriented rhetoric and practices targeting Syrian refugees proliferated among EU countries and regional host states—focusing particularly on Denmark, Lebanon, and Jordan. Theoretically, the article draws on scholarly debates on migration diplomacy and deportation regimes and international political sociology literature on norm diffusion to grasp a gro…
Deportation and authoritarian transformation in the Swedish racial welfare state
The article analyzes Sweden’s deportation regime and its historical and contemporary role in racial welfare state formation and in expanding repressive state powers. Conceptually building on insights from critical border studies and critical racism studies, the article draws on extant literature on the historical evolvement of Sweden’s deportation policies and analyzes contemporary deportation patterns and practices using preparatory documents, p…
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe
Significant documentation generated by activists, researchers, and human rights organisations has evidenced how violence is systematically deployed by European states to regulate the mobility and settlement of people on the move arriving from the Global South.While documenting violations at Europe's borders is necessary to challenge states' efforts to obscure violence and to enable accountability for border injustices, this article offers a criti…
Predictable patterns of unpredictability
Migration control policies are marked by contradictory policy goals set in a complex web of intersecting international, national, and local regulations. This grants significant discretion to frontline workers. Despite the extensive research undertaken on discretion in migration control, there is a lack of comprehensive knowledge on how discretionary practices are patterned across countries and policy domains, what consequences these patterns have…
Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime
The European migration control regime claims to strife for 'orderly' and safe conditions of migration, yet systematically generates the opposite. This paper explores the role of informality in creating solutions to enable control and produce order in the European migration control regime by examining two areas of border policy characterised by high degrees of regulation and contestation : the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation (2013) and…
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions
This article details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. Drawing on research into the politics of knowledge in border and migration control, along with studies of street‐level bureaucracy, we trace the knowledge mobilised to craft state fictions that form the basis of border bureaucrats' decision‐making. Empirically, the article builds on re…
Deportation limbo
Deportation limbo traces the efforts of two Nordic welfare states, Denmark and Sweden, to address the so-called implementation gap in deportation enforcement. It offers an original, empirically grounded account of how often-futile, injurious policy measures devoted to pressuring non-deported people to leave are implemented and contested in practice. In doing so, it presents a critique of the widespread, normalised use of detention, encampment, an…
Governing Through Ignorance
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 …
The status of homelessness
Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and politi…
States of Suspicion
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
All quiet on the 'Eastern front'? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania
While much of current debate on European border control focuses on the reinforcements of Europe's Southern and South-eastern borders, the Baltic States, traditionally countries of emigration to Western Europe, are experiencing their own challenges in adapting their border regime to handle novel transit migration. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in the Lithuanian and Latvian State Border Guard Services, tasked with securing the Europe Union's E…
Organisational ethnography as a project of unease
Purpose The article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on ethnographic research with mi…
Performing states of crisis
Deportation regimes are increasingly studied from the perspective of the anthropology of bureaucracy and the governing techniques used to detain, exclude and deport ‘unwanted’ migrants. Such approaches force us to ‘think with the other side’, to include the experiences and dilemmas of street-level officials in our analysis that may challenge our positionality as researchers, as well as our wish to produce ‘evidence’ of deportation practices. Amit…
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Enforcing Apartheid
Across Northern European states, we can observe a proliferation of “hostile environments” targeting racialized groups. This article zooms in on Denmark and discusses recent policy initiatives that are explicitly aimed at excluding, criminalizing, and inflicting harm on migrants and internal “others” by making their lives “intolerable.” We use the example of Danish deportation centers to illustrate how structural racism is institutionalized and im…
Let the right one in? On European migration authorities’ resistance to research
This article documents efforts to gain access to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in migration control agencies across eight European countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. Building on repeated email exchanges, phone calls and fieldnotes from personal encounters between the researchers and state authorities, it traces and analyses state agencies’ decisions on whether or not to let researchers in to s…
Paperwork performances
Deportation regimes mobilise coercive state powers, but also entail extensive paperwork, the latter of which remains underexplored in deportation studies. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in border police units and a migration-related detention centre in Sweden, this article explores how bureaucratic practices of detecting, detaining and ultimately deporting people whose presence has been illegalised are enforced and legitimated through the use…
States of Suspicion
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
Paperwork performances
Deportation regimes mobilise coercive state powers, but also entail extensive paperwork, the latter of which remains underexplored in deportation studies. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in border police units and a migration-related detention centre in Sweden, this article explores how bureaucratic practices of detecting, detaining and ultimately deporting people whose presence has been illegalised are enforced and legitimated through the use…
Let the right one in? On European migration authorities’ resistance to research
This article documents efforts to gain access to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in migration control agencies across eight European countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. Building on repeated email exchanges, phone calls and fieldnotes from personal encounters between the researchers and state authorities, it traces and analyses state agencies’ decisions on whether or not to let researchers in to s…
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe
Significant documentation generated by activists, researchers, and human rights organisations has evidenced how violence is systematically deployed by European states to regulate the mobility and settlement of people on the move arriving from the Global South.While documenting violations at Europe's borders is necessary to challenge states' efforts to obscure violence and to enable accountability for border injustices, this article offers a criti…
Deportation limbo
Deportation limbo traces the efforts of two Nordic welfare states, Denmark and Sweden, to address the so-called implementation gap in deportation enforcement. It offers an original, empirically grounded account of how often-futile, injurious policy measures devoted to pressuring non-deported people to leave are implemented and contested in practice. In doing so, it presents a critique of the widespread, normalised use of detention, encampment, an…
Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime
The European migration control regime claims to strife for 'orderly' and safe conditions of migration, yet systematically generates the opposite. This paper explores the role of informality in creating solutions to enable control and produce order in the European migration control regime by examining two areas of border policy characterised by high degrees of regulation and contestation : the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation (2013) and…
Governing Through Ignorance
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 …
The status of homelessness
Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and politi…
All quiet on the 'Eastern front'? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania
While much of current debate on European border control focuses on the reinforcements of Europe's Southern and South-eastern borders, the Baltic States, traditionally countries of emigration to Western Europe, are experiencing their own challenges in adapting their border regime to handle novel transit migration. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in the Lithuanian and Latvian State Border Guard Services, tasked with securing the Europe Union's E…
Performing states of crisis
Deportation regimes are increasingly studied from the perspective of the anthropology of bureaucracy and the governing techniques used to detain, exclude and deport ‘unwanted’ migrants. Such approaches force us to ‘think with the other side’, to include the experiences and dilemmas of street-level officials in our analysis that may challenge our positionality as researchers, as well as our wish to produce ‘evidence’ of deportation practices. Amit…
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions
This article details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. Drawing on research into the politics of knowledge in border and migration control, along with studies of street‐level bureaucracy, we trace the knowledge mobilised to craft state fictions that form the basis of border bureaucrats' decision‐making. Empirically, the article builds on re…
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Enforcing Apartheid
Across Northern European states, we can observe a proliferation of “hostile environments” targeting racialized groups. This article zooms in on Denmark and discusses recent policy initiatives that are explicitly aimed at excluding, criminalizing, and inflicting harm on migrants and internal “others” by making their lives “intolerable.” We use the example of Danish deportation centers to illustrate how structural racism is institutionalized and im…
Let the right one in? On European migration authorities’ resistance to research
This article documents efforts to gain access to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in migration control agencies across eight European countries: Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. Building on repeated email exchanges, phone calls and fieldnotes from personal encounters between the researchers and state authorities, it traces and analyses state agencies’ decisions on whether or not to let researchers in to s…
Paperwork performances
Deportation regimes mobilise coercive state powers, but also entail extensive paperwork, the latter of which remains underexplored in deportation studies. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in border police units and a migration-related detention centre in Sweden, this article explores how bureaucratic practices of detecting, detaining and ultimately deporting people whose presence has been illegalised are enforced and legitimated through the use…
Organisational ethnography as a project of unease
Purpose The article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on ethnographic research with mi…
Performing states of crisis
Deportation regimes are increasingly studied from the perspective of the anthropology of bureaucracy and the governing techniques used to detain, exclude and deport ‘unwanted’ migrants. Such approaches force us to ‘think with the other side’, to include the experiences and dilemmas of street-level officials in our analysis that may challenge our positionality as researchers, as well as our wish to produce ‘evidence’ of deportation practices. Amit…
All quiet on the 'Eastern front'? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania
While much of current debate on European border control focuses on the reinforcements of Europe's Southern and South-eastern borders, the Baltic States, traditionally countries of emigration to Western Europe, are experiencing their own challenges in adapting their border regime to handle novel transit migration. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in the Lithuanian and Latvian State Border Guard Services, tasked with securing the Europe Union's E…
Governing Through Ignorance
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 …
The status of homelessness
Homelessness and other forms of destitution among asylum-seeking migrants are currently on the rise across Europe, as migrants’ access to social rights, including housing, has been restricted through repressive migration policies, fuelled by the welfare nationalism and chauvinism that surge among European states. This article explores the largely overlooked homelessness experienced by migrants seeking asylum in two different geographic and politi…
States of Suspicion
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
Deportation limbo
Deportation limbo traces the efforts of two Nordic welfare states, Denmark and Sweden, to address the so-called implementation gap in deportation enforcement. It offers an original, empirically grounded account of how often-futile, injurious policy measures devoted to pressuring non-deported people to leave are implemented and contested in practice. In doing so, it presents a critique of the widespread, normalised use of detention, encampment, an…
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions
This article details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. Drawing on research into the politics of knowledge in border and migration control, along with studies of street‐level bureaucracy, we trace the knowledge mobilised to craft state fictions that form the basis of border bureaucrats' decision‐making. Empirically, the article builds on re…
Predictable patterns of unpredictability
Migration control policies are marked by contradictory policy goals set in a complex web of intersecting international, national, and local regulations. This grants significant discretion to frontline workers. Despite the extensive research undertaken on discretion in migration control, there is a lack of comprehensive knowledge on how discretionary practices are patterned across countries and policy domains, what consequences these patterns have…
Making (in)formality work in a multi-scalar European border regime
The European migration control regime claims to strife for 'orderly' and safe conditions of migration, yet systematically generates the opposite. This paper explores the role of informality in creating solutions to enable control and produce order in the European migration control regime by examining two areas of border policy characterised by high degrees of regulation and contestation : the implementation of the Dublin III Regulation (2013) and…
Deportation Diplomacy
This article traces how, despite protracted violence in Syria under the Assad regime, deportation-oriented rhetoric and practices targeting Syrian refugees proliferated among EU countries and regional host states—focusing particularly on Denmark, Lebanon, and Jordan. Theoretically, the article draws on scholarly debates on migration diplomacy and deportation regimes and international political sociology literature on norm diffusion to grasp a gro…
Deportation and authoritarian transformation in the Swedish racial welfare state
The article analyzes Sweden’s deportation regime and its historical and contemporary role in racial welfare state formation and in expanding repressive state powers. Conceptually building on insights from critical border studies and critical racism studies, the article draws on extant literature on the historical evolvement of Sweden’s deportation policies and analyzes contemporary deportation patterns and practices using preparatory documents, p…
Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe
Significant documentation generated by activists, researchers, and human rights organisations has evidenced how violence is systematically deployed by European states to regulate the mobility and settlement of people on the move arriving from the Global South.While documenting violations at Europe's borders is necessary to challenge states' efforts to obscure violence and to enable accountability for border injustices, this article offers a criti…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Immigration (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Bureaucracy (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Deportation (6 obras)