

Political Science
Main research areas
- International migration
- International institutions
- Social movements
Current research
I have long been fascinated by international migration, and have approached that subject from several perspectives in my research. I am particularly interested in how migration challenges existing political practices – both nationally and internationally – as well as our understanding of basic political-theoretical concepts. At the moment I conduct research in this field within three different contexts. One project explores theRight to citizenship, empirically as well as normatively, with particular focus on the consequences of international migration. In theSTANCEresearch programme, I study how migration controls evolved during ”the long 19th century” and how they were debated in various international forums. In the new research project Migration Policy and the Welfare State in Comparative and Historical Perspective we investigate the interrelationships between migration policy and social policy.
Another research interest of mine concerns civil society and activism. I participate in the new research programme Civil Society Elites? In which we explore whether a new societal elite has been established as civil society organizations have acquired more significant roles. I have also studied the activities of social movements in relation to international institutions. Within the research programmes TRANSDEMOS and EUROCIV I have investigated both the strategies of influence that social movements employ, and how relations of cooperation as well as competition and conflict arise when these actors appear at arenas outside of the traditional nation state.
Publications
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The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Sara Kalm
(2022) Global Society
Journal articleWelfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall, Frida Boräng
(2022) Handbook on Migration and Welfare
Book chapterThe moral dimension of countermovements: The case of anti-feminism
Anna Meeuwisse, Sara Kalm
(2022) Morality and Movements
Book chapterCitizenship and the forgotten emigration - Swedes in Denmark 1850–1914
Sara Kalm
(2021) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2020-2021 p.1-23
Working paperFor love and for life: emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families
Sara Kalm, Anna Meeuwisse
(2020) Global Discourse, 10 p.303-320
Journal articleUnions and the rights of migrants in the long run
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall, Frida Boräng
(2020) Journal of European Social Policy, 30 p.557-570
Journal articleCitizenship and migration of the poor: Sweden during the 19th century
Sara Kalm
(2019) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2019 p.1-34
Working paperCivil Society Democratising Global Governance? : Potentials and Limitations of “Counter-Democracy”
Sara Kalm, Lisa Strömbom, Anders Uhlin
(2019) Global Society, 33 p.499-519
Journal articleKonservativ mobilisering mot sexuella och reproduktiva rättigheter, del 1 och 2
Sara Kalm
(2019) Europakommentaren
Journal articleImmigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall
(2019) Journal of European Social Policy, 29 p.463-477
Journal articleThe Dual Role of European Union Civil Society Organizations: Between European Union Institutions and Domestic Civil Societies
Sara Kalm, Håkan Johansson
(2019) Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organisations , p.44-72
Book chapterOm akademiskt hushållsarbete och dess fördelning
Sara Kalm
(2019) Sociologisk Forskning, 56 p.5-26
Journal articleAffective Naturalization : Practices of Citizenship Conferment
Sara Kalm
(2019) Alternatives, 44 p.138-154
Journal articlePoor Relief and Internal Migration: Lessons From the Nineteenth Century
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall
(2018) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2018 p.1-23
Working paperThe field of EU civil society: organizational resources and elite positions1
Håkan Johansson, Sara Kalm
(2018)
Conference paper: abstractStandardizing Movements: The International Passport Conferences of the 1920s
Sara Kalm
(2017) STANCE Working Papers Series, 2017 p.1-38
Working paperJan-Werner Müller: Vad är populism? En essä. Anmälan av Sara Kalm.
Sara Kalm
(2017) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 119 p.626-630
ReviewKritiskt tänkande i forskarutbildningen – handledares röster om ett betydelsefullt examensmål
Sara Kalm, Magdalena Bexell
(2017) Högre utbildning, 7 p.1-17
Journal articleSocial Policy and Migration Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall
(2016) STANCE Working Paper Series, 2016
Working paperWas ist das soziale Band der Demokratie? Eine demokratische Kritik der Produktion des prekären Lebens
Sara Kalm, Sofia Näsström
(2016) Das soziale Band: Geschichte und Gegenwart eines sozialtheoretischen Grundbegriffs
Book chapterA democratic critique of precarity
Sofia Näsström, Sara Kalm
(2015) Global Discourse: A Developmental Journal of Research in Politics and International Relations, 5 p.556-573
Journal articleReview of Antoine Pécoud's Depoliticising Migration
Sara Kalm
(2015) European Journal of Development Research
ReviewCivil Society and the Governance of Development: Opposing Global Institutions
Sara Kalm, Anders Uhlin
(2015) Development, Justice and Citizenship
BookEU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict
(2015) Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
BookThinking Relationally: Questions, Themes and Perspectives for the Study of EU Civil Society
Håkan Johansson, Sara Kalm
(2015) EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict
Book chapterGeiger, Martin & Pécoud, Antoine (eds.) (2013) Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People, Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 259 pp.
Sara Kalm
(2014) Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 4
ReviewDiaspora strategies as technologies of citizenship
Sara Kalm
(2013) Global Society, 27 p.379-397
Journal articleGlobal Migration Management, Order and Access to Mobility
Sara Kalm
(2012) IMIS - Beiträge
Journal articleLimits to Transnational Participation: the Global Governance of Migration
Sara Kalm
(2010) Transnational Actors in Global Governance: Patterns, Explanations, and Implications , p.134-154
Book chapterLiberalizing Movements? The Political Rationality of Global Migration Management
Sara Kalm
(2010) The Politics of International Migration Management , p.21-44
Book chapterIrregular Migration in Global Migration Governance
Sara Kalm
(2010) Irregular Migration in a Scandinavian Perspective , p.75-94
Book chapterGlobal Governance of Migration and the Migrants’ Rights Movement
Sara Kalm, Nicola Piper
(2010)
Conference paperManaging Circulation: the Global Policy Discourse on Migration and Development
Sara Kalm
(2009)
Conference paperMobility, Migration Control and Geopolitical Imaginations
Sara Kalm
(2008) Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Difference: Whose House is This?
Book chapterMigration Control Policies as Spatial Organization – Mobility, Power and Geopolitical Imaginations
Sara Kalm
(2005)
Working paperMigration Control Policies as Spatial Organization – Mobility, Power and Geopolitics
Sara Kalm
(2004)
Conference paperMigration Control Policies as Spatial Organization – Mobility, Power and Geopolitics
Sara Kalm
(2004)
Conference paperDescriptive Representation - Combating Political Marginalization in Sweden?
Sara Kalm
(2003) Identity Dynamics and the Construction of Boundaries
Book chapterDescriptive Representation – a Way of Combating Political Marginalization of People with Foreign Background in Sweden
Sara Kalm
(2002)
Conference paperEmancipation or Exploitation? A Study of Women Workers in Mexico's maquiladora industry
Sara Kalm
(2001) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 104 p.225-258
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