In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strategies and Practices", Anna Lundberg, Jacob Lind, Christina Johnsson and Emma Sundqvist investigate collective protests against the Informers Act. The group studies why trade unions, professional associations and other organisations have made the law a main target for their criticism. They want to find out how critical organisations organise themselves and what possible consequences the mobilisation might have from a human rights perspective. The project aims to study the arguments, strategies and practices of individual public welfare workers and the trade unions that represent them. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Anna Lundberg argues that public welfare workers are crucial for implementing migrants' human rights. Their contestations of the Informers Act indicate a collective questioning that, together with undocumented migrants' rights claims, creates a basis for migrants' human rights. In the project “Public Employees' Mobilization Against the Informers Act”, Lundberg and Lind use interviews and a survey to analyse welfare professionals' arguments, strategies and practices as they navigate the policy shift that the Informer Act entails. The project discusses the implications of welfare professionals' critique and mobilisation for migrants' future rights. The researchers also address the status of human rights in Sweden at large. The Craaford Foundation backs the project with its funding.
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