Published 7 December 2018 SASNET researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Migration Policy journal Migration Information Source entitled "Sweden: By Turns Welcoming and Restrictive in its Immigration Policy." Read the articel here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo - 2025-08-17

Published 11 December 2018 SASNET is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). SASNET produces and disseminates knowledge and research about South Asia in three principal ways. First, SASNET produces knowledge about South Asia through r

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-sasnet - 2025-08-17

Published 13 December 2018 Andreas Johansson, Director of SASNET, published a brief for the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore on the role of Muslim Politics in the Sri Lanka political crisis. Read it here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/publication-isas-insight - 2025-08-17

Published 13 December 2018 SANR is an annual conference about all things South Asian. It offers a platform for Nordic scholars of South Asia to present their research and meet other researchers. It is particularly intended to be a supportive meeting point for emerging scholars.   After initial meetings in Copenhagen in 2017 and Oslo in 2018, Uppsala will be the host in 2019 with the event taking p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-announcement-south-asia-across-nordic-region-2019 - 2025-08-17

Published 19 December 2018 On December 12, 2018, Anna Lindberg, affiliated researcher at SASNET, attended an International Conference on Afghanistan, organized in Stockholm by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). The aim of the conference was to address local Afghani perspectives on peace building, and explore the role of development partners, humanitarian actors, civil society, and others

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-international-conference-afghanistan - 2025-08-17

Published 9 January 2019 Earlier this week SASNET received a message that the founder and former director of SASNET, Professor Emeritus Staffan Lindberg has died. It is with great sadness that we learned of Staffan’s passing. Staffan was to the very end very active in SASNET, not only as a mentor to current director Andreas Johansson, but also, for his contributions to seminars and publications. J

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/staffan-lindberg-memoriam-1943-2019 - 2025-08-17

Published 15 January 2019 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson has published an article in The Conversation entitled, "Maldives: new president must ward off threats from Islamic extremism, foreign powers and autocratic rivals" Read it here

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-conversation - 2025-08-17

Published 21 January 2019 Manpreet K. Janeja, Parama Sinha Palit and Rishi Jha join SASNET as affiliated researchers. Manpreet K. Janeja holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge (U.K.), and an M.A. in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India). Her work so far has focused on three major concerns that straddle the ‘public’ and ‘p

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/three-scholars-join-sasnet-affiliated-researchers - 2025-08-17

Published 23 January 2019 During 2018 SASNET has conducted a wide range of activities to bolster South Asia research and research related accomplishments at Lund University. SASNET has collaborated with several organizations both within Lund University but also with organizations from all over the country through seminars, publications, networking, and conferences. web_verkbroschyr_a4_andreas.pdf

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/2018-productive-year-sasnet - 2025-08-17

Published 25 January 2019 Andreas Mattsson from the School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University and Vibodh Parthasarathi from Jamia Millia Islamia joins SASNET as affiliated researchers during 2019. Andreas Mattsson is a lecturer and program director at School of Journalism at Department of Communication and Media, Lund University. He is also the coordinator for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/andreas-mattsson-vibodh-parthasarathi-joins-sasnet-affiliated-researchers - 2025-08-17

Published 25 January 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo was interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan and the recent deportations of Afghans from Sweden in Svenska Dagbladet. Read it here (paywall) 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-researcher-admir-skodo-was-interviewed-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-08-17

Published 30 January 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Parama Sinha Pali has published an article in the Rising Powers Quarterly entitled "India’s Use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy." R ead it here.

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-parama-sinha-palit - 2025-08-17

Published 4 February 2019 During 2019 Hanna Geschewski and Ulrika Andersson will work at SASNET as student assistants with different tasks regarding communication and seminars. Hanna Geschewski is pursuing her Master’s in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES). Hanna spent nine years in Nepal and India. Hanna was able to grasp the natural and cultural diversity and societal and h

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/hanna-geschewski-and-ulrika-andersson-join-sasnet-student-assistants - 2025-08-17

Published 5 February 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Admir Skodo has published an article in the Journal of Refugee Studies entitled "Long and Short Arms of the State: Swedish Multidirectional Controls of Afghan Asylum Seekers During the Cold War" Abstract of the article:Drawing on unique sources from the Swedish Migration Agency Archive, this article examines how Afghan asylum seekers and refug

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-admir-skodo - 2025-08-17

Published 18 February 2019 SASNET affiliated researcher Rishi Jha has published an article in the Community Development Journal entitled 'Civilizing the political society? Redevelopment regime and Urban Poor’s Rights in Mumbai' AbstractThis article is concerned with informality-state relations, subaltern politics and citizenship in the context of the urban redevelopment regime. Based on an empiric

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-rishi-jha - 2025-08-17

Published 25 February 2019 Together with Per Stålberg and Britta Ohm, SASNET affiliated researcher Vibodh Parthasarathi has published an article in Culture Unbound entitled 'Introduction: Critical Explorations of Media Modernity in India' Read it here. 

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-affiliated-researcher-vibodh-parthasarathi - 2025-08-17

Published 4 March 2019 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson was interviewed about Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka on ABC News, Australia. Read it here  

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-director-andreas-johansson-was-interviewed-abc-news-australia - 2025-08-17

By hanna [dot] geschewski [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Geschewski) - published 21 March 2019 SASNET Director Andreas Johansson visited Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London from March 13 to 14. The Aga Khan Centre in London During the visit Andreas met with the Director of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Profe

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/sasnet-visited-aga-khan-centre-london - 2025-08-17

By hanna [dot] geschewski [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Geschewski) - published 22 March 2019 Jakob Hernborg Axelson recently compiled a report on Asian studies in Sweden, highlighting the need to strengthen Swedish expertise on Asia. On behalf of the South Asia Initiative, Jakob Hernborg Axelson has prepared a report on Swedish education and research on Asia over the last 10 years. The Sou

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/report-asian-studies-sweden-published - 2025-08-17

By hanna [dot] geschewski [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Geschewski) - published 27 March 2019 SASNET Associate Researcher Kristina Myrvold and SASNET Director Andreas Johansson have published an article on religious comforts of Indian soldiers in the First World War. SASNET Associate Researcher Kristina Myrvold, together with the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson, has published an artic

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/new-publication-andreas-johansson-and-kristina-myrvold - 2025-08-17