Sarah Philipson Isaac
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Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskapOm Sarah Philipson Isaac
Bakgrund: I have a master degree in political science from Lund university (2016) and a joint bachelor degree in global studies and political science from Södertörn university (2014) and Uppsala university (2014). Since 2017, I am a PhD student in sociology at the department of sociology and work science. I have previously worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Future Studies (IFFS) and the department of political science at Uppsala University.
Research interest: Neoliberal restructurings of the welfare state, welfare bureaucracies and their distribution of life chances. This includes the precarisation of life through the frame of temporal governance, with particular focus on migration and migration regimes. I approach these topics through feminist ethnographic methods and through theoretical commitments within critical border studies, racial capitalism, black, and postcolonial feminism. This also includes a focus on practices of defiance, focusing on Foucauldian perspectives on power, resistance, and in/exclusions.
Teaching: I teach courses in sociology (particular focus on qualitative methods and social inequality), work science (qualitative methods) as well as in the teachers program. I also supervise bachelor thesises in sociology.
Current research: My research examines how time and temporalities of migration are expressed and experienced among people who have sought asylum under the temporary law. This includes individuals who are still in the asylum process as well as individuals who have temporary protection. Within this, I approach time as an exertion of power, and how such power is experienced, organised and negotiated among those affected by the politics of asylum.