Research Areas
- Migration
- Human rights
- Collective contestations
Current Research
Starting in January 2026, I will lead the ERC Starting Grant project, "The right to give rights. Welfare professionals as guardians of undocumented migrants' human rights" (GIVE RIGHTS) at Malmö University.
2025-2028 I am part of the research project Human Rights Mobilisation of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act - Arguments, Strategies and Practices (HUMASP). Financed by the Swedish Research Council. During this period, I am leading the Swedish part of the research project "Practicing Hope: Challenging myths and changing narratives of youth in super-diverse urban communities" (YouHope). Financed by NordForsk.
During the spring of 2025, I completed a postdoctoral project as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Copenhagen University, funded by FORTE.
Background
Jacob Lind completed his doctoral studies at Malmö University. His doctoral dissertation discussed the experiences of undocumented migrant children and families' everyday lives. Whilst undocumented migrant children are labelled as vulnerable, their parents are often demonised. This is due to hostile policies created by states that use the children's vulnerability to rationalise the governing of their mobility and territorial presence. The paradoxical politics are examined by contrasting the arguments and practices of state actors with the experiences of undocumented migrant children and families in Sweden and the UK.
Until February 2023, he led the Swedish team in the EU Horizon 2020 project "EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions" (MIMY).
Lind chairs the national board of the IMER-association.