Hello dear readers, I am Jacob Lind and I have the pleasure to inform the world that I have been accepted as a PhD student within the project “Undocumented children’s rights claims”. My supervisors will be Anna Lundberg and Michael Strange and you are very welcome to come and visit me here in Malmö at Gäddan, floor 3, right behind the conference room.
I studied at Linköping University at the Politices Magister program, specialising in political science. My master thesis asked the question of how bureaucrats at the Swedish migration board use country of origin information (COI) in their daily work. I have also got an undergraduate exam in practical philosophy. Last year I attended some classes in anthropology at the master program in global studies at Gothenburg University, which will be useful for the ethnographic field work I am supposed to conduct in Malmö and Manchester over the next years.
The last years I have been involved in asylum activist groups, both through the churches in Linköping where I for the first time got to know undocumented immigrants – especially a Roma family in a very difficult situation – and in Gothenburg where I have been involved in No One Is Illegal and the campaign Asylum Right 2014. It’s a campaign that tries to raise awareness around some critical subjects within asylum politics leading up to the coming Swedish elections. You can read about the campaign here:
Please don’t hesitate to contact me!
/Jacob Lind
(Here’s a selfie from the Malmö-room in the library so you might recognize me if you bump into me.)
