Migration

DIIS forsker i internt fordrevne, internationale migranter og flygtninge samt de industrier og infrastrukturer, der muliggør, hindrer eller forskyder mobilitet.

Forskning og aktiviteter

Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly

DIIS Policy Brief

2023

Three frontlines in Africa's resource conflicts

Green transitions, nature conservation and the drylands
Billede/illustration af Sofie Henriksen

Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

Nyt studie udfordrer win-win myten i NGO-tech-partnerskaber for flygtninge

Idealet om at skabe fælles værdi i tværsektor partnerskaber ender ofte med at tilgodese virksomhedsinteresser.
DIIS Interview

15. august 2023

Before the coup Niger had become Sahel’s most important epicenter for Western security interventions

Postdoc at DIIS Andrew Lebovich started his fieldwork in Niger a few weeks before the coup. He investigates how locals in Niger perceive the multifaceted Western interventions in the impoverished country.
Billede/illustration af Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

EU's øjne over havet: Ny grænseteknologi skubber til vores grænser

Den nyeste grænseteknologi er ikke garant for færre ulykker, snarere tværtimod. Junis forlis i Middelhavet ud for Pylos, Grækenland, hvor op mod 700 mennesker om bord druknede, understreger dette. Den teknologiske udvikling stiller nye krav til os alle. Den stiller særligt krav til, at de europæiske befolkninger bliver opmærksomme på deres ansvar, skriver Ahlam Chemlali, ph.d.-studerede ved DIIS og Mikkel Nørregaard Jørgensen, ph.d.-studerende ved afdeling for Æstetik og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet.
Bog

2023

The long shadow of the border

Migrants, brokers and European border governance in Africa
Photo/illustration by Finn Stepputat

Studying state, sovereignty and other stuff

DIIS Auditorium

A retrospective seminar with and for senior researcher Finn Stepputat
DIIS Policy Brief

2023

Why adaptation projects do not stop climate-related migration

Irrigation and other adaptation projects seek to support local livelihoods in rural climate change affected areas in the Global South. Often, they also aim to curb migration, but adaptation projects rarely achieve this – for good reasons.
Photo/illustration by CBP Photography, Public domain via flickr.com

Artikel

2023

How the U.S. is repeating Europe’s failed migration policies
Livestreaming

Somali diaspora humanitarianism in complex crises

DIIS Auditorium

When disaster strike, diaspora groups are often first responders and remain engaged during lengthy and complex crises. Join this roundtable where we discuss practices, possibilities and pitfalls
Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

How do migrants navigate informal urban street economies?

New Special Issue on Transnational Street Business
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Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

Somali vernacular humanitarianism: Translocal emergency assistance during times of crisis

New article on the history and practices of local and diaspora support during crises in Somaliland
DIIS Policy Brief

2023

Climate change, mobility and human trafficking in Ethiopia

Ethiopian women’s migration is influenced by an array of interconnected factors including environmental degradation, poverty, limited social protection, political unrest, and vulnerability to gender-based violence. These factors all potentially increase vulnerability to human trafficking. Focusing only on the risks faced during irregular travel to and work arrangements in the Arab Gulf states and Lebanon may overlook the risks involved in staying put.
Photo/illustration by Finn Stepputat (background picture)

Livestreaming

Trade makes states: Governing the greater Somali economy

DIIS Auditorium

The control of trade and transport is key to statemaking. A new book suggests that this, rather than the control of people and territory, can make or unmake state projects in areas like Somalia. This seminar introduces the ideas behind the book
Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

Rings in the water: Felt externalisation in the extended EU borderlands

New research unpacks how 'felt externalization' translates into human rights abuses, environmental crises, and death
Bogkapitel

2023

Deterrence or empowerment?

Awareness and information campaigns as a migration governance tool to stop irregular migration
Bogkapitel

2023

Welcome aboard KLM Air Land! Hope and uncertainty in precarious migration projects

Critical perspectives on the production of hope, aspirations and migrant irregularity.
Photo/illustration by Cristina De Middel/Magnum Photos/Ritzau Scanpix

Livestreaming

Sex rule and state borders in global politics

DIIS Auditorium

Laura Sjoberg introduces the notion of "sex rule" in this talk. Looking at marriage, reproduction, migration and asylum cases, and homonormativity, she argues that sex rules matter in global politics and international security
Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

Multilateral climate finance coordination

Politics and depoliticization in practice
Photo/illustration by PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY Official website via Wiki Commons copyright license

DIIS Comment

2023

Everyday agency of Ukrainian migrant women

Ukrainian women have been in the spotlight of international media for months. Pictures of mothers crossing the border, representing the victims of the war in the news, has aroused sorrow and pity in audiences. But women that flee or migrate are much more than powerless victims.
DIIS Working Paper

2023

Inclusion and exclusion in Somali drought emergency assistance

Familiarity with aid recipients strengthens impartiality. A lesson learned for humanitarian engagement
Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Breaking down boundaries between planned and autonomous climate adaptation

Understanding adaptation practice as the interplay between bottom-up strategies and formal interventions in North Central Vietnam
Billede/illustration af Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet via Wiki Commons copyright-licens

Podcast

2023

EU’s migrantkontrol er rykket til Tunesien
Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands

Motherhood as both a driver an obstacle for undocumentet migrant women in Tunesia.
Billede/illustration af Gémes Sándor/SzomSzed via Wiki Commons copyright-licens

Tidsskriftsartikel

2023

Migrationskrisen blev aldrig løst, og EU står nu svagere end i 2015

Der bliver slået alarm i de europæiske hovedstæder – en ny migrationskrise truer i horisonten. Der er dog ikke tale om en ny krise, men en fortsættelse af den uløste krise fra 2015.
Livestreaming

In search of a new social order - North-South learnings

DIIS Auditorium

How to develop societies that benefit the weakest sections in the Global North as well as in the Global South? What are the possibilities of anti-capitalist democratic development?

Tidsskriftsartikel

2022

Can migrants do the (border)work?

Conflicting dynamics and effects of “peer-to-peer” intermediation in North and West Africa.

Anissa Maâ, Julia Van Dressel & Ida Marie Savio Vammen

Journal of Borderland Studies

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Digital publikation

2022

Themed week on border externalisation in Africa

Ida Marie Savio Vammen, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Hans Lucht

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DIIS Report

2022

Women on the move

Trafficking, sex work and reproductive health among West African migrant women

Sine Plambech, Ahlam Chemlali & Maria Chiara Cerio

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Rapport

2022

Global connections

Somali diaspora practices and their effects

Nauja Kleist & Masud Abdi

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Kapitel

2022

Hope

Nauja Kleist

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

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DIIS Working Paper

2022

The Great Green Wall

An overview and lessons learnt

Marie Ladekjær Gravesen & Mikkel Funder

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Bogkapitel

2022

The Productive Incoherence of “Sex Trafficking”

Elizabeth Bernstein, Sealing Cheng, Sine Plambech & Mario Pecheny

Paradoxes of Neoliberalism. Routledge

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Bogkapitel

2022

Borders and Boundaries

Thinking Migration, Sexuality, and Precarity in a Neoliberal Age

Sine Plambech, Mark Padilla, Sealing Cheng & Svati Shah

Paradoxes of neoliberalism. Routledge

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Photo/illustration by Göran Höglund (Kartläsarn) via Flickr.com copyright license

Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

En Route to Europe?

The Anti-politics of Deportation from North Africa to Mali

Almamy Sylla & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

Geopolitics

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Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

Introduction to the Special Issue: Borderwork in the Expanded EU-African Borderlands

Ida Marie Savio Vammen, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Hans Lucht

Geopolitics

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DIIS Working Paper

2021

Governing Climate Mobility

A scoping study of two localities in Ethiopia

Dessalegn Rahmato, Zerihun Mohammed & Neil Anthony Webster

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Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

Denmark’s new externalisation law

motives and consequences

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Zachary Whyte & Ahlam Chemlali

Forced Migration Review, 2021

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Bogkapitel

2021

Emotional Introspection

The Politics and Challenges of Contemporary Migration Research

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies. Palgrave Macmillan

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DIIS Working Paper

2021

Migration and foreign aid

drivers, desires and development

Ida Marie Savio Vammen, Lars Engberg-Pedersen & Hans Lucht

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Rapport

2021

Climate change vulnerability and mobility among children and youth in Ethiopia

An annotated bibliography

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen & Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste

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DIIS Report

2021

Climate change vulnerability and mobility among children and youth in Ethiopia

Current policy dilemmas and recommendations

Tekalign Ayalew Mengiste & Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

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Bog

2021

Translations of Security

A framework for the study of unwanted futures

Trine Villumsen Berling, Ulrik Pram Gad, Karen Lund Petersen & Ole Wæver

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Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

The transnational continuum of conditional inclusion

From marginalized immigrants to rejected returnees

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

Ethnic and racial Studies

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DIIS Working Paper

2021

Governing climate mobility

scoping study of two localities in Ghana

Joseph Teye, Francis Jarawura, Lily Salloum Lindegaard, Nauja Kleist, Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, Philip Mantey & David Quaye

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Bog

2021

Latinamerika Nu

Marie Kolling & Clement Behrendt Kjersgaard

Køb bogen her (Ræsons webshop)
Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

Borderwork in the Grey Zone

Everyday Resistance within European Border Control Initiatives in Mali

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

Geopolitics

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Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

‘When Migrants Become Messengers’

Affective Borderwork and Aspiration Management in Senegal

Ida Marie Savio Vammen

Geopolitics

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Photo/illustration by Vladimir Lysenko/Wikimedia Commons copyright license

Digital publikation

2021

Studying Diaspora Humanitarianism

Some methodological considerations

Nauja Kleist

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Rapport

2021

Danish desires to export asylum responsibility to camps outside Europe

AMIS seminar report

Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Ahlam Chemlali, Zachary Whyte & Nikolas Feith Tan

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Tidsskriftsartikel

2021

Introduction

Special issue: Migration, Smuggling and the Illicit Global Economy

Gabriella Sanchez & Luigi Achilli

Public Anthropologist, 3

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Photo/illustration by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix copyright license

DIIS Longread

2021

What makes a climate migrant?

Stories of waves of climate migrants miss the complexity that lies behind migration itself

Lily Salloum Lindegaard

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Photo/illustration by Danny Wilcox Frazier/Redux/Ritzau Scanpix

DIIS Longread

2021

Unmasking the human smuggler ,

Anne Blaabjerg Nielsen & Gabriella Sanchez

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DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Recognising diaspora humanitarianism

What we know and what we need to know more about

Mohamed Aden Hassan, Sahra Ahmed Koshin, Peter Albrecht, Mark Bradbury, Fatima Dahir Mohamed, Abdirahman Edle Ali, Karuti Kanyinga, Nauja Kleist, George Michuki, Ahmed M. Musa, Jethro Norman & Obadia Okinda

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Billede/illustration af Cecilie Castor

DIIS Comment

2020

Mellem håbet og havet

Ahlam Chemlali
DIIS Policy Brief

2020

When a crisis turns chronic

Internally displaced people in Mali's capital city

Boukary Sangaré & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

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DIIS Comment

2020

Migration og udviklingsbistand

Et opgør med myterne

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Interview

2020

Fra kvindekamp til et blik på køn

DIIS sætter fokus på globale kønsproblematikker

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Robin May Schott & Anne Blaabjerg Nielsen
DIIS Comment

2020

Tech and Trust Challenges

Emerging Trends in Somaliland Diaspora Response to Covid-19

Ahmed Musa, Jethro Norman, Mark Bradbury, Mohamed Aden Hassan & Nauja Kleist
Photo/illustration by Menahem Kahana/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

DIIS Policy Brief

2020

Future of Palestine

A sovereign Palestinian state remains the only sustainable solution

Lars Erslev Andersen & Yuad Jaradat

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DIIS Comment

2020

Danmark har brug for en udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitisk strategi

Jessica Larsen
DIIS Policy Brief

2020

Shock Mobility

Long term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and lock-down

Biao Xiang & Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

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DIIS Comment

2020

Mogadishu in the time of COVID-19

Abdirahman Edle Ali, Abdirahman Mustaf Mohamed, Jethro Norman, Karuti Kanyinga & Peter Albrecht
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DIIS Comment

2020

COVID-19: A Looming humanitarian disaster for Somali East Africa and its diaspora

Abdirahman Edle Ali, Ahmed Musa, Mohamed Aden Hassan, Nauja Kleist & Mark Bradbury
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DIIS Policy Brief

2020

The traumas of Ethiopian male migrants

Re-integration efforts must put vulnerabilities at the centre

Adam Moe Fejerskov & Meron Zeleke

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DIIS Comment

2020

Flygtninge, migration og frygt i coronavirusens tid

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
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DIIS policy brief

2020

A moving frontline in Africa

climate-cattle-conflict

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Peer Schouten

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DIIS Comment

2020

Hotbeds of Corona

Poor immigrant neighbourhoods in New York are being hit the hardest

Sine Plambech
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DIIS Comment

2019

Klima i dansk bistand

Fire bud på vejen frem

Lily Salloum Lindegaard, Mikkel Funder & Neil Anthony Webster
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DIIS policy brief

2019

EU pressure on Niger to stop migrants is reshaping cross-border economies

From migrants to drugs, gold, and rare animals

Hans Lucht & Luca Raineri

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DIIS Comment

2019

Ethiopia, Climate Change and Migration

A little more knowledge and a more nuanced perspective could greatly benefit thinking on policy

Neil Anthony Webster
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DIIS Comment

2019

Lokal jobskabelse – et alternativ til migration?

Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
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Brief

2019

Providing Security in the Sahel

A ‘Traffic Jam’ of Military Interventions

Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

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DIIS Comment

2019

De fattigste udviklingslande lades i stikken

Ole Winckler Andersen, Adam Moe Fejerskov & Lars Engberg-Pedersen
Billede/illustration af Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright-licens

Policy Brief

2019

Danmarks vej til et fornyet udviklingsarbejde

Ti anbefalinger

Adam Moe Fejerskov

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DIIS Policy Brief

2019

Nybrud i europæisk forsvarssamarbejde

Muligheder og dilemmaer for Danmark

Lars Cramer-Larsen & Manni Crone

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Livestreaming

Migration, inequality, and ethnoracial stratification

DIIS Auditorium

The dynamics of racialized inclusion and exclusion between and within groups
Photo/illustration by Background picture: Faruk Melik Cevik, IVtIBhjftaE from Unsplash

Livestreaming

A sultan in autumn

DIIS Auditorium

Presentation of Soner Cagaptay’s new book “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces the Uncontainable Forces of Turkey” and a discussion on the mounting challenges to President Erdogan’s rule
Livestreaming

Oprør og alliancer - Mellemøsten efter Det Arabiske Forår

Auditoriet - DIIS

Kom til boglancering for seniorforsker Lars Erslev Andersens nye bog og bliv klogere på, hvor Mellemøsten er på vej hen
Photo/illustration by Photo by Michael Wells, Public Engagement & Impact, University of Michigan - Jason De Leon at field work

Livestreaming

The land of open graves

DIIS Auditorium

Migrant life and death along the US/Mexico border
Billede/illustration af Martin Sanchez via Unsplash

Livestreaming

Tech og fremtidens kamp for demokrati og menneskerettigheder

DIIS - Auditorium

Hør Google, Facebook, Danmarks Tech-ambassadør og Institut for Menneskerettigheder diskutere hvordan vi sikrer, at ny teknologi understøtter demokrati og civilsamfund verden over
Photo/illustration by Rasmus Fly Filbert

Webinar

West Africa Perspectives

Online via Zoom

It matters how the dynamics of West Africa are discussed. Join this webinar to understand why, and hear more about appropriate responses to some of the main challenges that the region is facing.
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Webinar

Coloniality of research and spotlight on the research backstage

The third webinar on challenges facing field researchers
Photo/illustration by ICRC

Webinar

The politics and challenges of doing field research in humanitarian disasters

Based on personal experiences Dr. Tamara Last and DIIS Senior Researcher Ninna Nyberg Sørensen discuss the challenges that may affect research and lead to Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) among researchers
Blogpost

6. maj 2021

A Year After the Floods In Qardho

What Has Been The Response And How Is The Community Coping?
Photo/illustration by Ninna Nyberg

Webinar

The politics and challenges of doing field research in insecure places

This webinar explores the challenges of conducting research in conflict-ridden situations in the contemporary world
Photo/illustration by Christian Vium

Webinar

Does more information save migrants’ lives?

Webinar launch of new report about West African migrants’ use of information en route to Europe
Forskningsprojekt

23. februar 2021

New project on migration management in Africa and the Middle East

How does the EU's migration agenda influence policy-making in Africa and the Middle East?
10. februar 2021

DIIS-researcher new editor of Progress in Development Studies

DIIS senior researcher Adam Fejerskov has been appointed new associate editor of Progress in Development Studies.
Interview

2. februar 2021

Man kan frygte, at Biden overser læren fra Trump

Vibeke Tjalve om Bidens demokrati-projekt
Interview

8. december 2020

"If you have conflict, you are going to have hunger"

The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 is UN's World Food Programme. In this interview, WFP's Executive Director David Beasley explains how hunger and conflict are deeply intertwined in today's world.
Photo/illustration by Menahem Kahana/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix

Webinar

Future of Palestine : One state, Two states, No state

Online via Zoom

How will the Trump plan for solving the Israeli – Palestinian conflict and the recent normalization between UAE and Bahrain and Israel impact the future situation for the Palestinians?
Photo/illustration by Peter Tomas Petersen

Livestreaming

Looking inward: migration smuggling and gender in the Global North

DIIS - Auditoriet

How does the facilitation of irregular migration take place within the global north?
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Blog

30. juni 2020

Here, There and Everywhere

Covid-19 Travel Ban Effects on the Somali Diaspora
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Blog

30. maj 2020

Khat and COVID-19

Somalia’s cross-border economy in the time of coronavirus
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Blog

5. maj 2020

Puntland and COVID-19

Local Responses and Economic Impact
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Blog

23. april 2020

Somaliland and Covid-19

Emerging Issues and Economic Impact
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

Blog

20. april 2020

COVID-19 Is Confirmed In Puntland

How Are Families Coping?
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DIIS Nyhed

25. februar 2020

DIIS migration research on BBC

Senior Researcher Sine Plambech’s film tells the stories of migrant women
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

27. januar 2020

DIIS researcher to speak at Harvard

Migration film on US university tour
Photo/illustration by Pexels. Jens Mahnke. copyright license

4. december 2019

Media and trafficking in human beings

DIIS report informs EU media and the Council of Europe

Kronik

2021

Seniorforsker og antropolog: Vil vi redde de afghanske kvinder, når de bliver flygtninge i Europa?
Kronik

2021

Sexarbejdere tager verdenssituationen med i sengen på film

Ofte har sexarbejdere en overset funktion på film. De vises måske ikke som mennesker af kød og blod, men fungerer i stedet som symboler på den globale og politiske virkelighed, som filmen er skabt i. Det skriver Sine Plambech i dette essay om sexarbejdere på film.