University of Barcelona
My focus is on geographies of violence and borders. I particularly focus on gendered outcomes of violence and displacement, including feminized and forced disappearances. My work also focuses on how violence follows women that have no choice but to leave their homes across borders. In part this violence is direct, yet more commonly the violence is embedded in discriminatory and gendered systems of borders and protection.
Biorklund, L. (forthcoming) The global-intimate-urban of bordering: Violence and care in spaces of refuge in southern Mexico, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City.
Biorklund, L. (submitted). The cuerpo-territorio of disappearances and performative searches across borders, in López, P., G. Hadad, & M. González (ed) Rethinking Movements and Socio-Territorial Struggles in Latin America: New Political Languages, Reorganization of Protest, and Collective Horizons Beyond "Development."
Biorklund, L. & J. Hyndman (forthcoming). Dark Matters of Administrative Exclusion: The Geopolitics of Asylum in Geopolitics of Migration edited by E. Sánchez-Montijano.
Biorklund, L. (forthcoming). Acompañamiento: An embodied everyday humanitarianism, in The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (2nd edition)
Biorklund, L., & Hyndman, J. (2025). Decolonizing feminist geopolitics. In The DeGruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography.
Biorklund, L. (2025) “We pay with our life and our body:” Gendered and intimate geopolitics of vias Pa’l Norte, Political Geography, volume 119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103317
Biorklund, L. (2023) Undocumented Bordering Practices: Protagonism and Spaces of Making, Journal of Refugee Studies.
Biorklund, L. (2023) Tragedies, not accidents: Tougher Canadian and US border policies will cost more lives, The Conversation, April 9.
Biorklund, L. & Hyndman, J. (2022) Refugee Studies has Always been Critical, in Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies.
Biorklund, L. (2022) La caravana de las madres centroamericanas: duelo personal y agravio politico, Brujula, June 27.
Biorklund, L. (2022) Central America’s caravan of mothers: Personal grief and political grievance, The Conversation, June 9.
Biorklund, L. & Ferguson, R. (2021), Normalising the Exceptional: The Use of Temporary Protection in Transit Countries to Externalise Borders and Responsibilities, Geopolitics.
Ferguson, R. & Biorklund, L. (2020) ‘Better than Nothing’ Approaches to Protection and the Violence of the Law in Turkey and Mexico, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration.
Hassan, A. & Biorklund, L. (2016) The Journey to Dreamland Never Ends: A Refugee’s Journey from Somalia to Sweden, Refugee Survey Quarterly.