Rebecca Thorburn Stern receives funding for research on asylum and citizenship law
Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of International Law at the Department of Law, and Patricia Mindus, Professor at the Department of Philosophy, both at Uppsala University, have received almost SEK 5 million in funding from Vetenskapsrådet for the project "Status and stability: An investigation of the importance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship legislation".

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In Sweden and other countries, a clear movement in migration law in recent years has been from permanent to temporary: time-limited residence permits, revocation of refugee status, higher thresholds for citizenship. This can be seen as a shift in the view of legal status, as stability and a long-term approach have long been the starting point for citizenship and residence permits. Many of these changes are about time: temporary permits, limited application periods, increased requirements for length of stay in order to apply for citizenship.
"In this project - which combines legal theory, national and international migration law, and migration and citizenship studies - we examine how the use of time as a tool to control migration affects the stability and predictability of different types of legal status. We also examine the consequences of destabilising legal status for individuals' rights and obligations. We do this partly by analysing how time has been used as a tool in Swedish migration law to regulate migration over the past 25 years, and partly by developing new theory on how time is expressed in law - what we have called "legal time". We are studying Sweden because of the major changes in migration policy in recent years, but our results will have relevance for other countries as well."
The project runs from 2024 to 2026.
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