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  • 1.
    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    A apparent boundary between law and politics2007In: Exploiting the limits of law: Swedish feminism and the challenge to pessimism, Ashgate, Aldershot , 2007Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 2.
    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Law.
    De politiska partiernas rättspolitik2004Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    Political parties act in law and politics and have opinions that can be aligned along a law-politics dimension. The purpose of this thesis is to problematize and analyze the conceptualization of law and politics as distinctly separate phenomena by studying the law and politics dimension in Swedish party politics. Specifically, it is a study of political parties´views and arguments as regards core elements of the relationship between the individual and the state. The research problematizes knowledge about law and politics in the borderland between legal scholarship and political science. To identify political parties´views and arguments as regards law and politics the study contains their views and arguments as regards state use of concealed and coercive measures, legal aid and legislation for the protection of and support to victims of crime. In order to capture possible shifts in party positions the study covers the twentieth century. These cases are of central importance of the field and are closely connected to the principles of protection and accessibility of the law as expressions of the principle of rule of law. From the 1970s the material revealed increasing concern for legal principles or values such as privacy, equality before the law, accessibility of the law, and the right of the individual to be secure from crime. These arguments was most forcefully made by the Liberal and the Left parties. The Social Democratic Party, has had a noticeably unprincipled attitude as regards law and politics and seems to be navigating without any compass other than the finances of the state. As regards the Conservative Party, the analysis leads to almost the same conclusion. The most consistent parties on the law-politics dimension are the Liberal Party and even more the Left Party. The relationship between law and politics cannot be described in terms of separation or boundaries. On the contrary, there is an essential interaction and mutual relationship. The political parties have in recent years drawn up programmes in the field of law and politics. In spite of that, it is hardly an overstatement to assert that legal issues as matters of principle do not occur frequently in preparatory documents preceding legislation. Yet the motives laid out in such documents have a significant influence on how legislation is interpreted.

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    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    De politiska partiernas rättspolitik2000In: Tvärvetenskapliga angreppssätt i rättsvetenskapen: rapport från Nätverksfakultetens höstseminarium 27-29 november 1999, Juridiska institutionen, Umeå universitet , 2000, p. 31-37Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 4.
    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    Den rättspolitiska frågan brottsoffer - alla är för, men hur?2006In: Brottsoffer: ansvar och konsekvenser: Ett viktimologiskt forskningsseminarium i Umeå den 22 november 2005, Juridiska institutionen, Umeå universitet , 2006, p. 113-128Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 5.
    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    Folkpartiet – rättspolitiskt liberalt?2006In: Fronesis, ISSN 1404-2614, no 22-23, p. 43-50Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 6.
    Persson, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    Olika inför lagen - begränsad rättshjälp för familjetvister2001In: Familjeföreställningar : om familjens betydelse inom juridik, ekonomi och forskning, Iustus, Uppsala , 2001Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 7.
    Yttergren, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Law.
    Studierektorn: En otidsenlig multifunktionell spindel i nätet?2020In: Vänbok till Ulf Israelsson / [ed] Mattias Derlén, Lena Landström, Nina Nilsson Rådeström, Umeå: Juridiska institutionen, Umeå universitet , 2020, p. 271-295Chapter in book (Other academic)
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    Yttergren, Åsa
    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    Swedish Gender Equality for Trafficked Women?: Radical Official Remedies and Ethnic Otherness2012In: feminists@law, E-ISSN 2046-9551, Vol. 2, no 1, p. 1-27Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    The article provides an overview of the official Swedish attitude towards trafficking in persons for sexual purposes, places this view in an international context, and also critically analyzes problems that arise when the Swedish objective of establishing gender equality both nationally and internationally is confronted with the issue of women who have been trafficked to Sweden. The analysis covers the standpoint of the Swedish parliament expressed through legislation and other official documents regarding both criminal and migration law. It demonstrates that the Swedish position regarding trafficking is closely bound up with its understanding of prostitution which is conceptualized as an extreme expression of gender inequality. It moves beyond the polarized international positions of abolishing prostitution or normalizing it by addressing men’s demand for paid sex by the criminalization of the purchasing of sexual services, since demand for sex is regarded as the basis of both prostitution and trafficking. The main conclusion is that the aspiration for gender equality seems first to include Swedes in the Swedish context and secondly other ethnicities within their own native countries. In contrast, women trafficked to Sweden are constructed as “others” who do not fit into either of these categories. The emphasis in the context of women trafficked to Sweden is on combating transnational, organized crime, and in consequence gender equality is no longer a priority: the situation of these women perceived as non-Swedes or ethnically ‘other’ is therefore regarded as some other state’s problem.

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  • 9.
    Yttergren, Åsa
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    Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society.
    Westerstrand, Jenny
    Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
    The Swedish Legal Approach to Prostitution: Trends and Tendencies in the Prostitution Debate2016In: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, ISSN 0803-8740, E-ISSN 1502-394X, Vol. 24, no 1, p. 45-55Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This article focuses on academic responses to the Swedish law prohibiting the purchase of sexual services, enacted in 1999. It highlights the close link between popular – populist – ideas circulating in media, and academic work discussing problems with the given legislation. Two myths can be traced, exchanged between and enforced by on the one hand voices in the Sex Workers Rights movement and voices from within academia. The first myth relates to the legal construction of the legislation – which is obscured in order to make women in prostitution seem like victims in the eyes of the lawmaker, and hence portray the legislation as a "radical feminist-victim-oriented" piece of work. The second myth relates to the historical events leading up to the law, what alliances and arguments that were used. The made up history again puts the legislation firmly in radical feminist politics, all though the alliances and arguments came from many strands of thoughts and crucial decisions came about due to ad hoc events as well as the lack of an articulated resistance. The article concludes that the research field is under influence from strong political interests, so far successful in producing non valid arguments against the law. This in turn makes it difficult to gain knowledge about the outcomes and effects of "the Swedish model" on prostitution.

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