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The Higher Research Seminar: Jacob Lind, Malmö University - “Human Rights Mobilisation of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act”

11 mars 2026 13:15 till 14:30 | Seminarium
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Chair: Jon Polk

Abstract

The Swedish "Snitch Law” and its implications for six governmental agencies

The Swedish government has recently proposed a number of restrictive policy changes regarding migration and migrants’ human rights. However, no issue has met as much criticism as the proposed duty for welfare professionals to report irregular migrants to the police – what the Guardian referred to as the Swedish "Snitch Law”. Widespread protests among welfare professionals and unions representing them led to that the healthcare, education, and social service sectors have been exempted from a duty to report. However, this presentation draws on recently conducted individual and group interviews amongst public officials in six government agencies that the state investigation has proposed should have a duty to report: The Swedish Public Employment Service, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, the Swedish Enforcement Authority, the Swedish Pensions Agency, and the Swedish Tax Agency. The presentation analyses how civil servants navigate their proposed duty to report and how the unions representing them mobilise against the proposed Act. Furthermore, we will discuss the implications of welfare professionals' and civil servants' contestations for the status of human rights in Sweden overall.

Jacob Lind

Jacob Lind has a PhD in International Migration and Ethnic Relations and is a senior lecturer in Political Science and Human Rights at the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. Between 2026-2030 He leads the ERC Starting Grant project "The right to give rights. Welfare professionals as guardians of undocumented migrants’ human rights (GIVE RIGHTS)”.

The Higher Research Seminar is the Department's main collective seminar. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science.

The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays, 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. PhD Mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45. 

Convenors: Robert Klemmensen and Jonathan Polk

The seminars are open to the public. Welcome to join us!

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Plats:

Large conference room, Eden 367.

Kontakt:

Jonathan [dot] Polk [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se