Researchers

Emmanuel Raju
Associate Professor - Promotion Programme

Global Health Section
Faculty of Health and Medical Science

• intersections of disasters
• climate change
• displacement,
• resettlement and mobility

• migrant health policy
• health care access
• ethnicity and health
• health inequity
• inclusive health care

• diversity competence
• medical education
• training for health professionals
• migrant health
• capacity building

• health
• ethnic minorities
• long-term effects of COVID-19

• immigrant mental health
• maternal wellbeing
• mental health interventions
• mental health prevention
• healthcare access

• cultural competencies
• access to health care
• asylum seekers and refugee’ health
• migration process and health
• vulnerable migrants

• mobility
• refugees
• mental health
• disease care
• global health

• access to healthcare
• health outcomes
• mental health
• quality of care
• integration

Jakobsen, Cecilie Odgaard (AMIS)
Research Assistant

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• refugees
• asylum seeking
• camps
• trajectories
• ethnography

• language and work
• language and migration
• language and integration
• English in Denmark

• intercultural communication
• transculturality
• migrant literature
• national identity constructions
• Latin America

• migrant literature
• memory studies
• transnational literary studies
• german colonialism
• reception studies

• health communication
• migrant patient
• migrant health care staff
• conversation analysis
• language psychology

Kohl, Katrine Syppli (AMIS)
Postdoc

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• refugees
• asylum seekers
• camps
• governmentality
• system-client-encounters 

Pelckmans, Lotte (AMIS)
Associate Professor

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• international mobility
• internal displacement
• nomadism
• diaspora
• transnational activism
• West Africa

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• everyday Europeanization
• European borders and migration practices
• welcome cultures and civil society initiatives for refugee relief
• the Danish paradigm shift and the deterrence politics in practice

Kristensen, Marlene Paulin
Teaching Assistant 

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• border enforcement
• ethnography of the state
• border studies
• European ethnology
• cultural analysis

• language
• interaction
• education
• interpreting
• health-care

• East European labour migration
• transnational family life
• migration and flexicurity
• state recognition
• highly skilled migrants

Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke (AMIS)
Associate Professor 

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• conflict
• media
• images of violence
• truth
• irregularised migrant journeys

Leese, Peter
Associate Professor

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Faculty of Humanities

• representations
• life story
• investigation
• picture
• comparative history

Daryai-Hansen, Petra
Associate Professor

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Faculty of Humanities

• plurilingual and intercultural education
• home languages
• language awareness
• recognition
• translanguaging

Laustsen, Pia Schwarz
Associate Professor

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Faculty of Humanities

• archaeology
• neolithic
• migration
• archaeo-linguistics
• neolithic art

• migration and work
• multilingualism
• second language acquisition
• language and globalisation
• healthcare communication 

• municipal refugee reception
• sociology of welfare work
• sociology of integration
• racialization
• sociology and politics of knowledge

Whyte, Zachary (AMIS)
Associate Professor

Saxo-Institute
Faculty of Humanities

• asylum
• refugees
• infrastructures
• remoteness
• migration and everyday life

Küçüksu, Aysel
Postdoc

Centre of Excellence for International Courts
Faculty of Law

• immigration law
• refugee law
• asylum law
• vulnerability theory
• EU law, compliance, ECHR, CJEU

Nielsen, Maj Rørdam
PhD Fellow

Centre for Private Governance
Faculty of Law

• integration law
• immigrants
• sociology of law
• survey research
• private governance

Bottero, Matteo
Postdoc 

JUR- CEPRI - Centre for Private Governance
Faculty of Law

• EU law and policy
• EU labour law
• EU constitutional law
• immigration law
• immigrant integration

Cullen, Miriam
Associate Professor

Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies
Faculty of Law

• climate and disaster-related displacement, mobilities and immobilities
• international law
• international organizations
• international humanitarian law
• international migration law

Ford, Sarah Scott
PhD Fellow

PhD programme
Faculty of Law

• refugee law
• human rights
• asylum institutions
• migration law
• sociology of law

• immigration law and policy
• integration law
• citizenship law and theory
• union citizenship
• linguistic integration

Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas
Professor

MOBILE – Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law

• immigration law
• refugee law
• mobility law
• EU law
• law-politics

Agergaard, Jytte
Professor

Geography
Faculty of Science

• rural-urban migration
• multi-locality
• migration-urbanization nexus
• climate induced migration
• Global South

• human-centered data science
• data feminism
• natural language processing
• participatory design
• data work in asylum decision-making

Møller, Naja Holten
Assistant Professor, tenure track

Software, Data, People & Society
Faculty of Science

• critical public tech
• computer-supported cooperative work
• participatory methods
• public services
• future of work

Gentin, Sandra
Teaching Associate Professor

Landscape Architecture and Planning
Faculty of Science

• nature based integration
• ethnic minorities outdoor recreation
• socio-environmental justice
• planning
• governance

• computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)
• critical data studies
• datafication
• asylum
• ethnography

• undocumented migration
• biometric technologies
• criminalization of humanitarianism
• uncertainty and insecurity
• multisided fieldwork

• refugees
• humanitarian initiatives
• aid
• participation revolution
• multi-sided fieldwork

• attitudes towards immigrants
• political integration
• nationalism
• discrimination
• immigration policies 

• high-skilled professionals
• global mobility of families
• sociology of mobilities
• skills and social incorporation
• capitals across borders

• transnational migration
• activism
• political subjectivities
• Mexico
• solidarity and resistance

• undocumented migration
• political anthropology
• peace and conflict studies
• crisis and chronicity
• mobility and mobilization

Hartmann, Ida
Postdoc

Department of Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences

• Islamic commitment
• citizenly engagement and political contestation in contemporary Turkey and among Turkish migrant communities in Europe

• labour mobility
• EU law
• posted work
• labour market regulation
• discrimination and social dumping

• applied development economics
• impact evaluation
• labour mobility
• knowledge spillovers
• interdisciplinary research

• migration
• family and kinship
• narratives
• transnational networks
• biometric technologies

• migration
• gender and Islam in/and Europe
• digital-visual anthropology
• emerging technologies

• migration
• borders
• processes of identification
• biometric technologies
• belonging

• refugees
• integration
• language Training
• ALMP

• high-skilled labour migrants
• professionals
• labour mobility
• skills incorporation

• social trust
• discrimination
• immigration preferences
• terrorism
• mental health and well-being

Power, Seamus Anthony
Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
Faculty of Social Sciences

• cultural pluralism
• democracy
• integration
• morality
• psychology
• un-American cultural activities

• transnational crime
• human trafficking
• criminal networks
• pimping/third-party facilitation
• sex work

• africa
• certification of citizenship
• displacement
• identification
• belonging

• bible
• diaspora
• religion
• history
• narratives

• bible
• ethnic minorities
• religion
• church
• narratives

• qur’an
• Islam
• religion
• history
• ethnic minorities

• refugees
• resettlement
• digitization
• participation
• Rwanda

• equality
• integration
• Denmark
• morality
• cultural homogeneity 

Tol, Wietse Anton
Professor

Department of Public Health
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

• global mental health, particularly in low-resource, conflict-affected settings and populations

Lamé, Anouk Marine
PhD Fellow

MOBILE – Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law

• migration law
• human rights
• judicial behavior
• sociology of law

Mortensen, Sofie
PhD Fellow

Section for Global Development
Faculty of Science

• rural-rural migration
• mobility and agrarian change
• undocumented migration
• youth
• gender