Sara Kalm
Director of Third Cycle Studies | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer | Qualified Teaching Practitioner
Political Science
Main research areas
- International migration
- Citizenship
- Social movements
- International institutions
Introduction
I am an associate professor in political science, and I teach and supervise at all levels. At the moment I teach first-level introduction to political science. I also coordinate and teach the faculty's introductory course for new doctoral students. I am doctoral supervisor to Jana Canavan and Juliane Liebsch, and assistant supervisor to Paulina Vaughn. Previously, I have been supervisor to Björn Östbring, assistant supervisor to Daniel Gustafsson, and third supervisor to Andreas Lundstedt (University of Gothenburg). Beginning 2024, I am the Director of studies for the PhD program.
Research interests
I have been interested in migration and citizenship issues for more than two decades. I have approached these questions in several different ways. In my dissertation Governing Global Migration (2008), I analyzed discourses around labor migration in international organizations from a Michel Foucault-inspired perspective. Since then, I have devoted myself extensively to the historical development of immigration controls in various countries, particularly in relation to the welfare state and social policy. I have looked at this both from a Swedish national perspective and, together with colleagues, from an international comparative perspective. In another research context, I have concentrated on citizenship - how it is transformed in a time marked by migration, and especially how it mirrors and reinforces global inequality. Since 2023, I lead a VR-funded project on the role of corporations in the “citizenship industry”. Me and Magdalena Bexell are there investigating the tendency towards states “selling” citizenship and residency to the global elite in exchange for investment, in particular focusing on the role of firms.
I am also very interested in the role of transnational social movements and civil society organizations in international relations. This has, among other things, resulted in the monograph Civil Society and the Governance of Development: Opposing Global Institutions (together with Anders Uhlin, 2015) and the edited volume EU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict (co-editor Håkan Johansson, 2015). I have also participated in the RJ-funded research program Civil Society Elites? where I and Anna Meeuwisse study the transnational mobilization of ultra-conservative “anti-gender movements”.
Miscellaneous
In recent years, I have become interested in the university as an organization and a workplace. Among other things, I have written and lectured on “academic housekeeping”, and I have until recently been the convener of the department's JLM group (gender equality, equal treatment, diversity). I am also one of the members of Lund University's Council for Ethics and Academic Freedom as well as the faculty's Ethics Council.
Publications
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Contestation of Civil Society Elites: Targets, Sources, and Depths in Four National Contexts
Sara Kalm, Anna Meeuwisse
(2024) Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top
Book chapterHistorical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons
Margaret E. Peters, Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall, Adrian Shin
(2024) International Studies Quarterly, 68
Journal articleCitizenship and mobility of the poor: Sweden during the 19th century
Sara Kalm
(2023) European Journal of Sociology
Journal article"Får vi fresta med ett extra medborgarskap?"
Sara Kalm
(2023) Svenska Dagbladet, - Under strecket
Newspaper articleTranscalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families
Sara Kalm, Anna Meeuwisse
(2023) Social Politics, 30 p.556-579
Journal articleThe Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance
Sara Kalm
(2023) Global Society, 37 p.68-92
Journal articleThe moral dimension of countermovements: The case of anti-feminism
Anna Meeuwisse, Sara Kalm
(2023) The Power of Morality in Movements: Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy , p.291-314
Book chapterTransnationell mobilisering kring den »naturliga familjen«. World Congress of Families
Sara Kalm, Anna Meeuwisse
(2023) Fronesis, 76/77
Journal articleStoeckl, Kristina & Uzlaner, Dmitry, 2022. The Moralist International: Russia in the Global Culture Wars. New York: Fordham University Press. Anmälan av Sara Kalm
Sara Kalm
(2023) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 125 p.1195-1200
ReviewDe unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
Christina Moberg, Hervé Corvellec, Anders Lindroth, Manuela Isacson, Linn Nilsson, et al.
(2022) Aftonbladet
Newspaper articleWelfare states and migration policy: The main challenges for scholarship
Sara Kalm, Johannes Lindvall, Frida Boräng
(2022) Handbook on Migration and Welfare , p.321-336
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 articleJakt på papperslösa gör oss till en polisstat
Jacob Lind, Pouran Djampour, Maja Sager, Emma Söderman, Vanna Nordling, et al.
(2016) Svenska Dagbladet
Newspaper 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 chapterReview of Antoine Pécoud's Depoliticising Migration
Sara Kalm
(2015) European Journal of Development Research
ReviewA 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 articleThinking 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 chapterEU Civil Society: Patterns of Cooperation, Competition and Conflict
(2015) Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
BookCivil Society and the Governance of Development: Opposing Global Institutions
Sara Kalm, Anders Uhlin
(2015) Development, Justice and Citizenship
BookGeiger, 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 articleLiberalizing Movements? The Political Rationality of Global Migration Management
Sara Kalm
(2010) The Politics of International Migration Management , p.21-44
Book chapterLimits to Transnational Participation: the Global Governance of Migration
Sara Kalm
(2010) Transnational Actors in Global Governance: Patterns, Explanations, and Implications , p.134-154
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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