I am Professor in Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University.
I have been visiting or affiliated researcher at several universities, including the University of Turin, LUISS Guido Carli, EUI, and more. Before joining IFFS, I was FIAS fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies in 2023–24 and Wallenberg Academy Fellow prior to that.
My research mainly focuses on legal and political theory. Most of the projects I have directed as PI have used an interdisciplinary approach. My signature contributions include the functionalist theory of citizenship and the theory of migration as an institutional fact. My best known books in English are A Real Mind, European Citizenship after Brexit and the Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism co-edited with Torben Spaak.
At the Institute I head the research project Status and Stability, which examines time in Swedish asylum and citizenship legislation over the past 25 years. The project combines legal theory, national and international migration law, as well as migration and citizenship studies. It investigates how the use of time as a tool to control migration affects the stability and predictability of different types of legal status.
This question has renewed relevance because in the past years the migration laws in many countries have shifted from furthering permanent statuses to promoting temporary ones.
For more information about my research on migration, watch a 2 min presentation, a 12 min TEDx Talk or a 20 min interview.
