Sarah Philipson Isaac is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the SIR Center for Sustainability Research and Sustainable Finance Lab. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Gothenburg, where she defended her dissertation, Temporal Dispossession: The Politics of Asylum and the Remaking of Racial Capitalism in and Beyond the Borders of the Swedish Welfare State, in May 2024.
Through ethnographic engagements with people seeking asylum in Sweden, her doctoral research offers an analysis of the transformations in Swedish asylum legislation post-2015. The thesis examines how dispossession operates in and through the border regime, specifically through its temporal configurations, and how the latter is weaponised to dispossess people of their life chances. It contributes to critical scholarship on the political economy of borders, with a focus on the Nordic context, examining the operation of racial capitalism through the welfare state, where labour market exploitation is exacerbated by the precarity produced through its migration bureaucracies.
In her current role at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Dr. Philipson Isaac collaborates with Associate Professor Lin Lerpold and Professor Örjan Sjöberg on research into the value chains of labor market exploitation alongside more repressive migration policies.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5770 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1377-9311 |
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Stockholm School of Economics
University, Stockholm, Sweden
Postdoctoral researcher
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