Research Seminar with Martin Joormann: Studying the Danish, German and Swedish asylum systems and their appeal instances

At the seminar, Martin will present some of his work-in-progress, which he is currently conducting for his VR International Postdoc. This postdoc project is a collective case study of Danish, German and Swedish appeal instances that decide on the review of rejected asylum claims. The research builds on data gathered through semi-structured interviews with judges and other decision-makers who adjudicate asylum appeals. The study’s point of departure is to explore the varying extents to which these appeals are politicized in Germany, Sweden and Denmark (see attached reading for the seminar).

Reading for the seminar (open access): "Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems" in Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe (2020).

This is a digital seminar hosted on Zoom. A link to join the seminar will be posted here.

Martin Joormann completed his PhD in Sociology of Law at Lund University in May 2019. He is the author of articles such as ‘Asylstaffetten – A longitudinal Ethnographic Study of Protest Walks against the Detention of Asylum Seekers in Sweden’, and recently completed his work on the edited book ‘Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe‘ (Manchester University Press, co-edited together with Dalia Abdelhady and Nina Gren). Martin serves as editor for several international journals, and he is currently conducting research for his VR International Postdoc, which is based at the Sociology of Law Department.