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Research
My research interests are citizenship, nation, globalisation, migration and asylum rights from an intersectional feminist perspective. I understand the issue of migration and migrants’ rights as a key point where issues of global inequalities, neoliberalism and militarism meet issues of nationalism/nativism, racism and sexism in the local and national contexts. I am especially interested in the ways in which restrictive European migration policies produce spaces of irregularity and deportability – and how those spaces are experienced and contested by migrants and activist networks. I also focus on the gendered experiences of the processes of exclusion and resistance. Empirically my focus lies in the area of migration rights as articulated in advocacy and activist movements/networks, as well as the experiences of migrants active in those networks and their experiences of national and European migration politics of control and categorisation. Epistemologically I explore the forms of knowledge produced through the practices and experiences of these movements and mobilisations for social change. My research interests also include antiracist feminism, nationalism, post-colonial theory, critical welfare studies and feminist methodological issues.
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Gender Studies
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations the last five years
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Från redaktionen
Sager, M., Schmitt, I. & Lundell, E., 2025, In: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. 45, 1, p. 1-2Translated title of the contribution :From the editors Research output: Contribution to journal › Debate/Note/Editorial
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Från redaktionen
Schmitt, I., Sager, M. & Lundell, E., 2025, In: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. 45, 2-3, p. 1-3Translated title of the contribution :From the editors Research output: Contribution to journal › Debate/Note/Editorial
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Från redaktionen
Schmitt, I., Sager, M. & Lundell, E., 2024 Dec 27, In: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. 44, 3, p. 1-5Research output: Contribution to journal › Debate/Note/Editorial
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Antiracist and migration rights struggles through the lens of methodological de-nationalism
Sager, M., 2024 Jun, Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge: Activism and everyday struggles in Europe. Manchester University Press, p. 169-198 30 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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”Studenternas aktivism visar en hoppfull strävan.”
Eleonorasdotter, E., Abdelhady, D., Bowling, D., Zackari, K., Pressfeldt, V., Chan, S., Borges Freitas, C., Gren, N., Montesino, N., Scharbrodt, O., Eklund, L., Hamnell, B., El-Husseini, R., Öhman, A., Salami, F., Ramasar, V., Jones, B., Mulinari, D., Chahin, H. & Dodds, P. & 28 others, , 2024 Apr 22, Sydsvenskan.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Newspaper article
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OCBRG: The Öresunds Comparative Borderlands Research Group
Lund Hansen, A. (Researcher), Kutz, W. (Researcher), Sager, M. (Researcher), Halldenius, L. (Researcher), Öberg, M.-L. (Researcher), Pugh, R. (Researcher), Krokstäde, M. (Project coordinator), Sanders, H. (Researcher), Bissenbakker, M. (Researcher), Cory, E. (Researcher), Rosengren, M. (Researcher), Pelckmans, L. (Researcher), Sandberg, M. (Researcher), Yigit Turan, B. (Researcher), Keshavarz, M. (Researcher), Sohn, C. (Researcher), Kapitsinis, N. (Researcher), Axelsson , L. (Researcher), Denarnaud, E. (Researcher), Pelckmans, L. (Researcher), Poulia, S. (Researcher), Ristilammi, P.-M. (Researcher) & Olsson, C. (Researcher)
2023/09/04 → …
Project: Network
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Kulturarv, migration och mobilitet i ett öppet demokratiskt samhälle
Gradén, L. (PI), O'dell, T. (PI), Narvselius, E. (Researcher), Törnquist-Plewa, B. (Researcher), Saether, E. (Researcher), Dahlqvist, J. (Researcher), Östersjö, S. (Researcher), Parsa, A. (Researcher), Sager, M. (Researcher), Krokstäde, M. (CoI), Nikolic, D. (CoI), Åkerman, C. (CoI), Wahlöö, A. (Researcher), Lindblad, H. (CoI) & Elg, F. (CoI)
2018/09/01 → 2021/06/30
Project: Research
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Anti-Jewish Racism: Exploring the Swedish Racial Regime
Sältenberg, H. (Researcher), Mulinari, D. (Supervisor) & Sager, M. (Assistant supervisor)
2018/01/01 → 2022/09/05
Project: Dissertation
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The courts as an emerging arena for struggles against and about racism
Sager, M. (Researcher) & Kolankiewicz, M. (Researcher)
2017/01/01 → 2022/12/31
Project: Research
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Contested Boundaries. An ethnographic study of activist practices for the inclusion of excluded migrants in Sweden, Denmark and the UK.
Sager, M. (PI)
2012/09/01 → 2016/03/31
Project: Research
Activities
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Claudia Di Matteo. Mobilizing Knowledge: Framing Gender-based Violence and Negotiating Social Protection for Migrant Women with Precarious Legal Status
Sager, M. (Commissioned member of Examining committee)
2025 Jun 12Activity: Examination and supervision › Examination
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Eline Wærp. The Age of Frontex: Banal Securitization and its Normalization in EUropean External(ized) Border Control
Sager, M. (Commissioned member of Examining committee)
2024 May 24Activity: Examination and supervision › Examination
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Disa Helander. Bordering through genetics: DNA testing, family reunification and Swedish migration control
Sager, M. (Commissioned member of Examining committee)
2023 Nov 17Activity: Examination and supervision › Examination
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Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Journal)
Liinason, M. (Editor), Schmitt, I. (Editor) & Sager, M. (Editor)
2022 Jan 1 → 2025 Dec 31Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal editor
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Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (Journal)
Schmitt, I. (Editor), Sager, M. (Editor), Ernberg, M. (Editorial board member), Kolankiewicz, M. (Editorial board member), Monakali, E. (Editorial board member), Bremer Gagnesjö, S. (Editorial board member), Bonde, L. (Editorial board member) & Liinason, M. (Editorial board member)
2022 → 2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Journal editor