Karin Åberg

Visiting PhD Fellow 2022 | Centre for Fundamental Rights

Karin Åberg is a visiting PhD researcher at the Centre for Fundamental Rights and a PhD candidate at the University of Gothenburg. Her dissertation topic, Humanizing European Migration law, concerns the development of asylum law as expressed in EU law and under the ECHR. She specifically examines how law and legal expectations interacts with humanitarianist values as well as ideas of the irregular migrant as an economic actor. Beside European asylum law, Åberg also writes about impoverished (Roma) EU migrants as well as the correlation between law and grassroot activism and is active in public debates on these subjects. Åberg has previously practiced law in Greece and Sweden, and worked with human rights advocacy in Brussels.