Project Members

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Johanna Pettersson Fürst

Principle investigator

Johanna Pettersson Fürst is a researcher at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, specializing in political science with a focus on sovereignty, border politics, international relations, and security. Holding a PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University (2018), their research spans a wide array of topics, including border relations, policy analysis, and EU studies. Pettersson Fürst is an associated researcher at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and has preciously been a visiting researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands and UCLA in the United States. In addition to the What will we eat? project, her ongoing research covers challenges to European integration arising from internal border controls, the use of consultants in public agencies and public ethos, and the role of culture in Nordic cooperation.

Other ongoing and related projects

• Governing through Consultants: How does Central Government Agency Use of Private Consultants Impact Public Values? led by Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg. More info here.
• Konkurrerande etos inom den högre utbildningen och forskningen i Sverige with Helena Wockelberg and Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg. More info here.

Previous Projects

• Mellan fri rörlighet och hårda gränser: Implementeringen av inre gränskontroller som utmaning för eller utvidgning av den Europeiska integrationen (2020--2023)

Recent Publications

• Pettersson Fürst, Johanna, "EU Border Policy: Enhanced Border Security and Challenges to Free Movement", The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World, pp. 23–48, 2024. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  @inbook{PetterssonFrst2024,
   author = {Pettersson Fürst and  Johanna},
   booktitle = {The Borders of the European Union in a Conflictual World},
   doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-54200-8_2},
   pages = {23–48},
   publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
   title = {EU Border Policy: Enhanced Border Security and Challenges to Free Movement},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54200-8_2},
   year = {2024}
  }

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• Johanna Pettersson Fürst, "Differentiated Implementation of Controls: The Internal Border Regimes of Schengen", Politics and Governance, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 68–78, July, 2023. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  @article{Frst2023,
   author = {Johanna Pettersson Fürst},
   doi = {10.17645/pag.v11i3.6785},
   journal = {Politics and Governance},
   month = {July},
   number = {3},
   pages = {68–78},
   publisher = {Cogitatio},
   title = {Differentiated Implementation of Controls: The Internal Border Regimes of Schengen},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i3.6785},
   volume = {11},
   year = {2023}
  }

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• Pettersson Fürst, Johanna, "Defensive integration through cooperative re-bordering? How member states use internal border controls in Schengen", Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 478–500, January, 2023. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  @article{PetterssonFrst2023,
   author = {Pettersson Fürst and  Johanna},
   doi = {10.1080/13501763.2022.2162104},
   journal = {Journal of European Public Policy},
   month = {January},
   number = {2},
   pages = {478–500},
   publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   title = {Defensive integration through cooperative re-bordering? How member states use internal border controls in Schengen},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2022.2162104},
   volume = {31},
   year = {2023}
  }

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• Pettersson Fürst, Johanna, "EU:s gr\anspolitik : Hårdare gr\anser och utmaningar f\or den fria r\orligheten", EU:s inre och yttre gränser i en konflikfylld värld : Europaperspektiv 2023. Årsbok för europaforskning inom ekonomi, juridik och statskunskap, no. 26, pp. 31–56, 2023. [link]  [bibtex]  [abstract] 

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  @incollection{PetterssonFurst1755488,
   author = {Pettersson Fürst and Johanna},
   booktitle = {EU:s inre och yttre gränser i en konflikfylld värld : Europaperspektiv 2023. Årsbok för europaforskning inom ekonomi, juridik och statskunskap},
   institution = {Uppsala University, Department of Government},
   number = {26},
   pages = {31–56},
   series = {Europaperspektiv},
   title = {EU:s gr\anspolitik : Hårdare gr\anser och utmaningar f\or den fria r\orligheten},
   url = {https://www.europaperspektiv.se/w/ep/tidigare-arsbocker},
   year = {2023}
  }

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  Abstract

  I detta kapitel ställs frågan hur den Europeiska unionen och dess
  medlemmar hanterar de gränspolitiska utmaningar som samarbetet
  ställs inför. Frågan illustreras genom belysning av tre olika ut?
  vecklingstendenser vad gäller EU:s gränspolitik. Det första
  avsnittet presenterar ett teoretiskt ramverk för att förstå
  gränsernas roll i den europeiska integrationen. Det andra avsnittet
  blickar inåt och handlar om användningen av så kallade ”tillfälliga
  inre gränskontroller”, det vill säga återinförandet av nationella
  gränskontroller inom Schengenområdet, något som ökade avsevärt både
  under flyktingkrisen 2015 och under coronapandemin. Det tredje
  avsnittet handlar om utvecklingen av EU:s externa gränspolitik, den
  som syftar till att kontrollera migrationen utifrån och där
  gränskontroller flyttas allt längre från EU:s geografiska yttre
  gräns. Det fjärde avsnittet tittar lite närmare på utvecklingen och
  användandet av ny teknik och den allt mer ”gränslösa”
  gränsbevakningen. Kapitlet avslutas med en diskussion om vad dessa
  olika utvecklingstendenser säger om EU:s inre och yttre gränser.

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• Frida Hansen, Johanna Pettersson, "Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union", European Security, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 117–134, July, 2021. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  Bibtex

  @article{Hansen2021,
   author = {Frida Hansen and Johanna Pettersson},
   doi = {10.1080/09662839.2021.1945038},
   journal = {European Security},
   month = {July},
   number = {1},
   pages = {117–134},
   publisher = {Informa UK Limited},
   title = {Contradictory migration management? Differentiated security approaches to visa overstay and irregular border crossings in the European Union},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09662839.2021.1945038},
   volume = {31},
   year = {2021}
  }

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See also

• Personal Site: johannapettersson.se
• Uppsala University: Johanna @ uu.se

Robert Borges

Robert (Bob) Borges is a research engineer at the Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, where he primarily engages with corpus building and textual analysis involving parliamentary data. He holds a PhD in linguistics (2013) from Radboud University Nijmegen. Borges is keenly engaged with interdisciplinary research and developing best-practice strategies for developing sustainable research infrastructures. In linguistics, his research explores how social and cognitive constraints interact with grammatical structures to drive language evolution.

Other ongoing and related projects

• Swedish Riksdag 1867–2022: An Ecosystem of Linked Open Data -- SWERIK
• What does it take to make leadership gender equal? Studies of political leadership in a gender balanced context. -- here
• Multi Modal EuroParl -- MMEP

Previous Projects

• New Speakers of Minority Languages: Proficiency, Variation, and Change (2021--2023)
• A Spoken EuroParl Corpus (2019-2020)
• New Speakers of Wymysorys (2017--2019)

Recent Publications

• Maciej Bandur, Robert Borges, "Morphophonological Innovations in New Speakers’ Kashubian", Studi Slavistici, pp. 115–140, January, 2024. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  @article{Bandur2024,
   author = {Maciej Bandur and Robert Borges},
   doi = {10.36253/studi_slavis-14897},
   journal = {Studi Slavistici},
   month = {January},
   pages = {115–140},
   publisher = {Firenze University Press},
   title = {Morphophonological Innovations in New Speakers’ Kashubian},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/Studi_Slavis-14897},
   year = {2024}
  }

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• Väinö Aleksi Yrjänäinen, Fredrik Mohammadi Norén, Robert Borges, Johan Jarlbrink, Lotta Åberg Brorsson, Anders P. Olsson, Pelle Snickars, and Måns Magnusson, "The Swedish Parliament Corpus 1867 -- 2022", Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pp. 16100–16112, May, 2024. [link]  [bibtex]  [abstract] 

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  @inproceedings{yrjanainen-etal-2024-swedish-parliament,
   address = {Torino, Italia},
   author = {Väinö Aleksi Yrjänäinen,
  Fredrik Mohammadi Norén,
  Robert Borges,
  Johan Jarlbrink,
  Lotta Åberg Brorsson,
  Anders P. Olsson,
  Pelle Snickars and and
  Måns Magnusson},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
   editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and
  Kan, Min-Yen and
  Hoste, Veronique and
  Lenci, Alessandro and
  Sakti, Sakriani and
  Xue, Nianwen},
   month = {May},
   pages = {16100–16112},
   publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
   title = {The Swedish Parliament Corpus 1867 -- 2022},
   url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1400},
   year = {2024}
  }

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  Abstract

  The Swedish parliamentary records are an important source material
  for social science and humanities researchers. We introduce a new
  research corpus, the Swedish Parliament Corpus, which is larger and
  more developed than previously available research corpora for the
  Swedish parliament. The corpus contains annotated and structured
  parliamentary records over more than 150 years, through the
  bicameral parliament (1867{--}1970) and the unicameral parliament
  (1971{--}). In addition to the records, which contain all speeches
  in the parliament, we also provide a database of all members of
  parliament over the same period. Along with the corpus, we describe
  procedures to ensure data quality. The corpus facilitates detailed
  analysis of parliamentary speeches in several research fields.

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• Volker Gast, Robert Borges, "Nouns, Verbs and Other Parts of Speech in Translation and Interpreting: Evidence from English Speech es Made in the European Parliament and Their German Translations and Interpretations", Languages, vol. 8, no. 1, 2023. [link]  [bibtex]  [abstract] 

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  @article{GastBorges2023,
   author = {Volker Gast and Robert Borges},
   doi = {10.3390/languages8010039},
   journal = {Languages},
   number = {1},
   title = {Nouns, Verbs and Other Parts of Speech in Translation and Interpreting: Evidence from English Speech
  es Made in the European Parliament and Their German Translations and Interpretations},
   url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/39},
   volume = {8},
   year = {2023}
  }

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  This study investigates the distributions of word classes in English
  speeches made in the Europea n Parliament and their German (written)
  translations and simultaneous interpretations. For comparison, a
  samp le of original German speeches and a selection of political
  interviews are used. The study is motivated by th e intention to
  understand the relationship between the type of mediation and
  communicative modes: mediated sp oken language is compared to
  unmediated spoken language and to mediated written language. The
  results show th at the interpretations exhibit a less nominal style
  than the translations, in this respect resembling unplann ed spoken
  conversation. Other quantitative findings, such as a high frequency
  of adverbs, also point to a reg ister effect, but interpretations
  have a hybrid status and can be located somewhere in the middle,
  between th e register of the source text (parliamentary speech) and
  unplanned spoken discourse. The results are discusse d against the
  background of the mechanisms that presumably underlie the choices
  made by translators (processi ng, register and strategies).

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• Robert Borges, Margot van den Berg, "Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname", Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, 2023. [bibtex] 

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  @incollection{BorgesVDBerg2023,
   address = {Amsterdam},
   author = {Robert Borges and Margot van den Berg},
   booktitle = {Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space},
   editor = {Korhonen Minna and Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö},
   publisher = {John Benjamins},
   title = {Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname},
   year = {2023}
  }

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• Robert Borges, "Sourcing Data from Wikipedia for the Study of Language Contact: the csbwiki", Academic Journal of Modern Philology, vol. 18, pp. 7–22, 2022. [link]  [bibtex] 

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  @article{borges2022csbwikiMS,
   author = { Robert Borges},
   doi = {10.34616/AJMP.2022.18.1},
   journal = {Academic Journal of Modern Philology},
   pages = {7–22},
   title = {Sourcing Data from Wikipedia for the Study of Language Contact: the csbwiki},
   url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.34616/AJMP.2022.18.1},
   volume = {18},
   year = {2022}
  }

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See also

• ORCID: 0000-0002-7647-4048
• Github: github.com/bobborges
• Personal Site: robertborges.net
• Uppsala University: Robert @ uu.se

Vendela Edberg

Vendela Edberg is a PhD candidate at the Department of Government at Uppsala University. She holds a MSc in Political Science from the Swedish Defence University and has a background as a practitioner and analyst in the field of preparedness and civil defence. Runold's work centers around contemporary and historic politics of preparedness, as well as critical security studies.

See also

• Uppsala University: Vendela @ uu.se