Public employees' mobilization against the lnformers Act.

(Swedish below) 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 we refer to as The Informers Act. This project aims to understand why and how professionals mobilise against the proposed Act. Through a survey and individual and group interviews, we will analyse their arguments, strategies and practices as they navigate this policy shift. The ongoing public inquiry investigating the proposal will be presented shortly before the project begins and we will analyse the commenting process and public debates that will follow. The project argues that welfare professionals are crucial not only for implementing migrants’ human rights, but their criticism against The Informers Act indicates that their collective contestations in themselves, together with the rights claims of irregular migrants, create a necessary foundation for migrants’ human rights to begin with. Our mixed method and theoretical approach will enable us to discuss not just the implications of welfare professionals’ contestations for the future of migrants’ rights, but also the status of human rights in Sweden overall.

I detta samarbetsprojekt undersöker projektgruppen, Jacob Lind och Anna Lundberg, varför och hur välfärdspersonal mobiliserar mot repressiva förändringar inom migration och migranters mänskliga rättigheter. Mest kritiserat är förslaget att offentliganställda ska polisanmäla papperslösa, känt som angiveriförslaget. Vi analyserar professionellas argument och strategier. Projektet betonar att välfärdspersonalens kritik och mobilisering är avgörande för migranters mänskliga rättigheter och reflekterar över statusen för mänskliga rättigheter i Sverige idag.