

Research Interests
- Legality and Legitimacy: Sociological, Political and Legal Theories
- Socio-Legal Research Design: Critical Discourse Analysis and Ethnography
- Legal Cartographies: Transnational and Multi-Level Approaches to the Study of Migration and Law
- Critical Migration Studies: Politics, Policies and Practices of Refugee Reception in Northern Europe
Current Research
VR International Postdoc
This socio-legal cartography is a collective case study of asylum appeals across three national contexts. It applies ethnographic methods of data collection and analysis in order to map the spatiotemporality of legal norms and practices. The study’s point of departure is to explore the varying extents to which asylum appeals are politicized in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
Publications
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Asylum Case Adjudication in Sweden, Country of Origin Information, and Epistemic Violence
Martin Joormann
(2023) European Welfare Rights in Practice: Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens,
Book chapterSpecial Issue on Bureaucratic Violence - Introduction
Nina Gren, Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann
(2023) Refuge - Canada's Journal on Refugees
Journal articleThe status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden
Enrico Giansanti, Annika Lindberg, Martin Joormann
(2022) Critical Social Policy, 42 p.586-606
Journal article‘Welcoming’ European welfare states are forcing refugees through mazes of harmful rules
Dalia Abdelhady, Martin Joormann, Nina Gren
(2021) The Conversation
Journal articleIn Memoriam Reza Banakar 1959-2020
Niklas Selberg, Martin Joormann
(2021) Retfærd: Nordisk juridisk tidsskrift, 43 p.9-11
Journal article (comment)Social class, economic capital and the Swedish, German and Danish asylum systems
Martin Joormann
(2020) Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Book chapterIntroduction
Dalia Abdelhady, Nina Gren, Martin Joormann
(2020) Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
Book chapterLegitimitet genom legalitet?
Martin Joormann
(2020) Om rättssociologisk tillämpning , p.171-191
Book chapterLegitimized Refugees : A Critical Investigation of Legitimacy Claims within the Precedents of Swedish Asylum Law
Martin Joormann
(2019) Lund Studies in Sociology of Law
DissertationAsylstaffetten – A longitudinal ethnographic study of protest walks against the detention of asylum seekers in Sweden
Martin Joormann
(2018) Justice, Power and Resistance, 2
Journal articleA Temporary Asylum Law and Secret Legal Cases: The Swedish Migration Bureaucracy and its Exceptions
Martin Joormann
(2017)
Web publicationGrovt missledande bild av antalet flyktingar i Tyskland
Martin Joormann
(2016) AL-TID.se
Newspaper articleA Repetitive Tragedy: November 1938, August 1992, August 2015
Martin Joormann
(2015) The Social Science Post
Newspaper articleClassical Sociological Theory and Social Engineering – Sociology's Canon and the Myrdals' Classics
Martin Joormann
(2015) The Social Science Post
Newspaper articleFrom Malmö to Lesbos: Tracing a Trans-European Network of Voluntary Work and Activism for Refugees
Martin Joormann
(2015) Newsletter, The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, 10 p.12-18
Journal articleBeyond Agamben's Noncitizen : Protesting Refugees on Their March Through Europe
Martin Joormann
(2014)
Conference paper: abstractThe Asylum Relay Walk in Sweden 2013: Snapshot of an Ethnographic Study on Contentious Agency
Martin Joormann
(2014) New Opportunities and Impasses: Theorizing and Experiencing Politics , p.418-429
Conference paperActivism against Migrants in Northern Europe: Agitation recently in Germany and Sweden
Martin Joormann
(2014) , p.114-114
Conference paper: abstract
Background
After six months as a visiting PhD candidate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 2018, Martin Joormann completed his PhD in Sociology of Law at Lund University in May 2019. He is the author of articles such as ‘Asylstaffetten – A longitudinal Ethnographic Study of Protest Walks against the Detention of Asylum Seekers in Sweden’, and recently completed his work on the edited book ‘Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe‘ (Manchester University Press, co-edited together with Dalia Abdelhady and Nina Gren). Martin serves as editor for several international journals, and he is currently conducting research for his VR International Postdoc, which is based at the Sociology of Law Department.