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- Lundberg, Anna, 1972-, et al.
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Technologies of Displacement and Children’s Right to Asylum in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Human Rights Review. - : Springer. - 1524-8879 .- 1874-6306. ; 18:2, s. 189-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 and children’s rights on the other hand plays out in the asylum process, which results in a double displacement; the children are not adult enough to be addressed as asylum seekers and not children enough to deserve qualification as bearer of children’s rights. An in-depth analysis of everyday practices at institutions applying children’s rights is essential both to understand the reproduction of discrepancies between rights on paper and rights in practice, and to explore the potential of rights to disrupt oppressive vehicles of power.
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- Lundberg, Anna
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The Best Interests of the Child Principle in Swedish Asylum Cases : The Marginalization of Children's Rights
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Rights Practice. - : Oxford University Press. - 1757-9619 .- 1757-9627. ; 3:1, s. 49-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 process. The Swedish Aliens Act and policy documents call for authorities and courts to give due weight to the best interests principle, mainly by taking children's own experiences into account and by analysing the potential impacts of the Board's decisions in individual cases. However, several discrepancies between words and deeds were identified. Firstly, children were not heard to the extent expected in light of the Swedish legislation, and the children's individual grounds for asylum were seldom addressed in interviews with them. Secondly, children's responses were not taken seriously in the assessment of asylum claims. Finally, the ‘best interests’ paragraph in the legislation was mainly used to legitimate rejected asylum applications. Despite the aspirations of civil servants to take individual children's needs and rights into account, a number of challenges often cause children's rights to be neglected. These include the officer's fear of reviving children's traumatic past experiences, mistrust regarding the grounds of asylum claims, and the lack of time caused by under-resourcing. The main finding drawn from the study is that, at the Migration Board, children's rights are treated as secondary to the national interest of keeping overall migration numbers down. A solution to this problem, presented in the article, would be to more clearly assess children's asylum claims in light of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Such a rights-based approach to the best interests of the child would help officials to act within their discretion.
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- Lundberg, Anna, et al.
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Unaccompanied children seeking asylum in Sweden : living conditions from a child centred perspective
- 2012
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Ingår i: Refugee Survey Quarterly. - : Oxford University Press. - 1020-4067 .- 1471-695X. ; 31:2, s. 54-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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, the children seemed satisfied with the fact that they had their human rights to housing, food, and support fulfilled. But on closer analysis of the interview answers it was revealed that many of the children’s existences were completely overshadowed by concern for the future and an underlying need of support. They described the asylum process as extremely worrying. Some children were not able to go to school, some felt offended when officials doubted their stories, and several children became sick after having their asylum application rejected. They emphasised that information from the authorities must be clear. Possible improvements in current practices are: continued information from authorities about the asylum case, more therapeutic care, and every day contact with supportive adults and friends.
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Mänskliga rättigheter : juridiska perspektiv
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rätten är ett viktigt verktyg för att realisera idéer om mänskliga rättigheter. Inte minst när människor utsätts för människorättskränkningar fyller juridiken en funktion som redskap för individer att hävda sina rättigheter. Denna antologi behandlar mänskliga rättigheter ur juridiskt perspektiv. Bokens upplägg omfattar i huvudsak fyra delar där fokus ges åt fredens, preventionens respektive krigens folkrätt. Det mest omfattande av dessa avsnitt rör fredens folkrätt.
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- Ottosson, Lisa, et al.
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People ’out of place’? Advocates’ Negotiations on Children’s Participation in the Asylum Application Process in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. - : Oxford University Press. - 1360-9939 .- 1464-3707. ; 27:2, s. 266-287
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 tension between migration control and children’s interests. The study shows that children are often assumed to be adequately represented by their parents and that they are perceived as ‘people out of place’ in the asylum process. The right to a customised asylum process, in which children’s needs and perspectives are taken into consideration, tends to be overlooked. Also, the principle of children’s best interests is overshadowed by an ambition to prepare the parents’ claims for asylum in a credible and strategic manner or it may be used as a last resort when all other efforts to get an application granted have been exhausted. In addition, although representatives occasionally develop successful ways of bringing child-specific persecution to the attention of the migration authorities, bureaucratic, and economic barriers constitute a limitation. This ultimately results in the child’s right to seek asylum being overshadowed by the state’s highly technical migration control.
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- Strange, Michael, et al.
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Education as hospitality
- 2014
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Ingår i: Peace Review. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1040-2659 .- 1469-9982. ; 26:2, s. 201-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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, academia, and among refugee rights organisations over the right to education as well as the everyday risks faced by persons attending school in Malmö while present in Sweden without legal authorisation.
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- Strange, Michael, et al.
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Irregular migration struggles and active subjects of trans-border politics : New research strategies for interrogating the agency of the marginalised
- 2017
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Ingår i: Politics. - : Sage Publications. - 0263-3957 .- 1467-9256. ; 37:3, s. 243-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 this end? The articles presented in this Special Issue of Politics each differently explore how actions by or on behalf of irregular/ised migrants involve processes of subjectivity formation that imply a form of agency. Collectively we explore how irregular migration struggles feature as a site marked by active subjects of trans-border politics. We propose a research agenda based on tracing those processes – both regulatory, activist, and everyday – that negotiate and contest how an individual is positioned as an ‘irregular migrant’. The ethos behind such research is to explore how the most marginalised individuals reclaim or reconfigure subjecthood in ambiguous terms.
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- Lundberg, Anna, et al.
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Papperslösa barns rätt till utbildning i Sverige
- 2013
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Ingår i: Medborgerlig bildning. Demokrati och inkludering för ett hållbart samhälle. Hartsmar, N. Liljefors Persson, B. (Eds.). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144060620 ; , s. 167-195
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lundberg, Anna, et al.
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Deportability Status as Basis for Human Rights Claims : Irregularised Migrants' Right to Health Care in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Human Rights. - : Routledge. - 1891-8131 .- 1891-814X. ; 35:1, s. 35-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 legal category and basis for health care and why this is problematic. Our study reveals a variety of practices that reproduce inconsistencies entrenched in rights-mobilisation for non-citizens: separate legislations for different categories of persons, vague accounts of treaty-obligations, absence of discussions on liability, and shifting the responsibility of extending health care to the local government.
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