Andreas Lundstedt
Om Andreas Lundstedt
Dissertation
My dissertation explores how states categorise refugees to control migration and make migrants governable. Through a comparative case study of Sweden and Canada, it looks at two key aspects of refugee categorisation. First, the historical origins and development of processing systems for making refugees administratively and legally legible. Second, how dilemmas of classification are resolved in migration courts when individuals don’t fit the categories. The study addresses how, in the context of two countries with very different immigration histories, boundaries have been drawn and negotiated around categories of immigrants, such as Convention refugees and unaccompanied minors.
The dissertation is informed by historical institutional theory and writings on classification. Rather than seeing the categories through which asylum is regulated as static, it precedes from the notion that categories are deeply political tools for ordering the world. This makes them function as an infrastructure of migration control, impacting notions of deservingness and who gets to be a refugee. Similar to many other categorisation system, it is contested: the complexity of migrants’ lives defy administrative simplification, and people react to the categories imposed upon them. This means that the categories are continuously negotiated and re-made. Rather than being transplanted onto migrants, I see categorisation as constituted in a relationship between the governing and the governed.
Teaching
- Managing migration (Master level)
- Political philosophy (Bachelor level)
- Public policy (Bachelor and Master level)
- Qualitative method (Master level)
- Thesis supervision (Bachelor and Master level)
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Rational compassion: The conflicting legitimacies of asylum policy and the making up of refugees in Canada,
1967-1989
Andreas Lundstedt
IMISCOE PhD Workshop on Norms and Values in Migration. 28-29 April, 2021. - 2021-01-01 -
State of Control: Unknown Migrant
Children
Andreas Lundstedt
International migration - 2020-01-01 -
Formalizing the “refugee”: Swedish and Canadian asylum policy since the
1970s
Andreas Lundstedt
Kingston-SPA PhD Workshop. London, United Kingdom. - 2020-01-01 -
State of control: Unknown migrant
children
Andreas Lundstedt
Workshop: The Framing of The ‘Migration Crisis’ Cross-Nationally - From Problem Definition to Institutionalization (Or Not). Istanbul: 4-5 oktober, 2018. - 2018-01-01 -
Child refugee
identification
Andreas Lundstedt
19th Nordic Migration Research Conference. Norrköping: 15-17 augusti, 2018. - 2018-01-01 -
The historical development of children's asylum
identity
Andreas Lundstedt
Nätverket i offentlig organisation och styrning (NOOS). Norrköping: 8-9 februari, 2018. - 2018-01-01 -
Historical construction of children in
asylum
Andreas Lundstedt
NORKOM XXVI Kommunforskarkonferensen. Reykjavík, Iceland: 1-2 december 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
Styrmedlens outtalade politik: En studie av New Orleans kulturekonomiska
landskap
Andreas Lundstedt
- 2015-01-01