Data blog

About the blog

The Nordic Asylum Law & Lab works with multiple different kinds of data. At the heart of our work is large repositories of long-form asylum case files from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. These datasets enable us to conduct unique analysis of different stages of the asylum procedure and transcripts of interviews and hearings, and to identify underlying patterns impacting asylum decisions across different groups, countries and time. Complementing this, we look at e.g. legal documents and medical evidence, and compile data on e.g. the design of asylum procedures, asylum numbers and political dynamics. We also employ participatory methods and conduct interviews with e.g. decision-makers, lawyers and asylum applicants to enable grounded sense-making of data among practitioners.

Our goal is to have an interdisciplinary process of data interrogation. This includes critically investigating both our own and public data practices and raising questions about bias, data deficits, exclusion, equity and risks.

On this page you will find regular blog posts by different team members, presenting and discussing the differet data sets and methods that we are working with.

Blog posts