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Elsrud, Torun; Gruber, Sabine; Lundberg, Anna; Söderman, Emma; Vestin, Sanna

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“…Moreover, with colleagues, I interviewed seven stateless Palestinians who shared their knowledge of their encounters with Swedish bureaucracy. The participants were approached through a 6 REFUGE: CANADA'S JOURNAL ON REFUGEES Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence migrant rights network in Sweden that was part of a transdisciplinary research project on changes in asylum regulations since 2015 (see Elsrud et al, 2022). 2 One group interview was with a family of five, conducted in their home, and the other two were individual interviews conducted via Zoom.…”

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“They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden

Lundberg

2023

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Official calls for “failed” asylum seekers to leave Sweden ignore the difficulties and harms befalling stateless people who cannot return to previous countries of residence because they lack citizenship. Stateless people are caught in limbo, a position where they have no prospects of return or of attaining a residence permit in a predictable future. To learn the underlying logics and consequences of such limbo and how it is (re)produced in the Swedish migration bureaucracy, this article investigates three data sets: interviews with seven stateless Palestinians, the Swedish Migration Agency’s internal guidelines for the return process, and the same agency’s country reports on stateless people’s situation in the assigned deportation countries. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on statelessness and modern bureaucratized societies, the article reveals that there are great challenges to access rights for stateless persons and in holding anyone accountable for decisions adopted by Swedish migration authorities. Moreover, the article shows how limbo induces two interconnected and multilevel technologies in migration authorities: ignorance and repressive consent. As communicating vessels, these technologies form a bureaucratic violence. While diminishing migrants’ access to safety and a dignified life, violence is sustained by legislative changes and insidiously hidden from public debate.

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“They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden

Lundberg

2023

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Asylum Case Adjudication in Sweden, Country of Origin Information and Epistemic Violence

Joormann

2023

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

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This chapter on country of origin information (COI) draws on the semi-structured interviews I have been conducting between the years 2014 and 2022 with the responsible decision-makers of the Swedish welfare state: migration court judges. By applying Spivak’s concept of ‘epistemic violence’ in my qualitative content analysis of ten of these interviews, I problematise the COI that judges apply when they adjudicate. The epistemic violence embedded in asylum determination procedures in general is influenced by the institutionalised power imbalance that characterises the Swedish asylum system. The analysis of the corresponding power relations—between people seeking asylum from refugee-sending countries and decision-makers of a wealthy welfare state—leads the critical observer to detect parallels with the colonial bureaucratic violence of earlier historical periods.

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“They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden

“They Stopped the Lives of Others”: Stateless Palestinians Facing Bureaucratic Violence in Sweden

Asylum Case Adjudication in Sweden, Country of Origin Information and Epistemic Violence

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