This paper will relate the worsened situation for low educated in general, and youth in particular, to two institutional factors: a changed organisation of vocational education in upper secondary scho

Status and stability. An examination of the importance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship legislation

The past years the migration laws have shifted from the permanent to the temporary. What does the aspect of time mean for the individual's legal status?

2010. The SAIS Review of International Affairs 30: 57-71. AbstractThis paper aims to present possible explanations as to why radical right-wing populist parties have been highly successful in Denmark but

This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method

Democratization, vol 27, issue 5, p. 699-716 Abstract Within a few years of the historic Arab uprisings of 2011, popular mobilization dissipated amidst instability in many Arab countries. We trace the r

Johan Westerman

Johan Westerman is a researcher who obtained his PhD in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in 2020. His dissertation, entitled Motives Matter, investigated the intrinsic mo

Social Forces Abstract This study investigates two concurrent trends across Europe and North America: the increasing instability of parental unions and men’s rising contributions to household work. Beca

Rebecca Thorburn Stern

I am Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University. My research focuses on migration, particularly asylum, human rights, and the relationship between international and national law. At ths on the project  which explores the significance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship law over the past 25 years. The project combines public international law, legal philosophy, migration law and citizenship law and migration studies. We investigate how time is used as a tool to control and govern migration and how time can affect stability and predictability of legal status.

Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.  Research seminar with Patricia Mindus and Rebecca Stern. Patricia Mindus is Professor in Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University. Her research mainly f

Patricia Mindus and Rebecca Stern: Juridical Time and Its Role in Migration Law

In Sweden and other countries, a clear trend in migration law in recent years has been a shift from permanent towards temporary: time-limited residence permits, revocation of refugee status, higher th