Governing the opportunity to stay: a contemporary historical study of the Swedish state's governing of migrants' access to permanent residence

This dissertation examines the Swedish state’s governing of migrants' opportunity for permanent residence in Sweden, from a contemporary historical perspective. The project aims to understand the relationship between migration practices during the 1900s and 2010s, in terms of permanent residence, and with which discourses, material conditions and procedures that these were made possible, legitimized and (re)produced. The study also aims to demonstrate how the state governing practices have delineated which categories of migrants have been able to stay permanently in Sweden, and how these practices have created unequal conditions for different groups' access to social and human rights.