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Article on a study of ten families asylum investigations in the journal Article 14

in Okategoriserad on 21 January, 2022 21 January, 2022

In the spring of 2021, I was part of a research project on the Swedish asylum process where I, together with my colleagues Anna Lundberg and Anna Lindberg, analyzed the asylum protocols of ten asylum seeking families in Sweden. The focus of the study was the Migration Agencys interviews with parents and children from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria as well as the Agency’s assessments of…

Riz Ahmed, stereotypes, and the third space

in Okategoriserad on 14 February, 2021 16 February, 2021

Riz Ahmed has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. The nomination concerns Ahmed’s performance in the movie Sound of Metal, where he plays the main character Ruben, a drummer who loses his hearing. For this role, Ahmed is also predicted to be nominated for an Oscar. I am generally not very familiar with film award nominations, but the recognition of Riz…