Staff |
| Head of the research unit: Ninna Nyberg Sørensen |
| Baird, Theodore, MA, PhD Candidate |
| Human smuggling and trafficking, irregular and forced migration, asylum and refugees, migration industries, internally displaced persons, Turkey and neighboring areas. Contact: Thba@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8852 |
| Danstrøm, Matilde Skov, BA, Student Assistant (On leave until August 2013) |
| T: +45 3269 8673, E: msd@diis.dk |
| Gammeltoft-Hansen, Thomas, PhD, Senior Researcher |
| My research focuses on international refugee law, EU asylum and immigration policy and sovereignty. I am particularly interested in the externalisation and privatisation of migration control, and the relationship between international law, EU and Danish migration policy. In addition I work on more theoretical issues related to sovereignty and the relationship between law and politics. Contact: E: tgh@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8658 |
| Hoffmann, Kasper, MSc, PhD Candidate |
| Ethnicity and nationalism in DR Congo particularly the Maï-Maï movement; the conflicts of DR Congo with emphasis on North and South Kivu; the interrelation between security and development;civil-military cooperation; non-state armed actors; post-structuralist theories and methods. Contact: E: kho@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8827 |
| Jensen, Rikke Hald, stud.scient.pol., Student Assistant |
| Contact: E: rije@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8673 |
| Kjertum, Jette Bjerre, Msc, PhD Candidate |
| Forced migration, humanitarian assistance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of wartorn societies with special focus on social protcetion and rural livelihood strategies in Afghanistan Contact: T: +45 3269 8796, E: jkj@diis.dk |
| Kleist, Nauja, PhD, Senior Researcher |
| Relationship between migration and social mobility; enforced immobility; irregular migration; migration management; transnationalism; diaspora mobilization and politics; migration and development; repatriation, return migration and readmissions; migrant associations; home/belonging; gender, ethnicity, racialization; inclusion and exclusion mechanisms; refugees and conflict; repatriation; qualitative methods, multi-sited fieldwork; Africa and Denmark. Contact: E: nkl@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 866 |
| Mosebo, Marianne, MA, PhD Candidate |
| Livelihood strategies for urban youth in Karamoja in Northeastern Uganda, agency; citizens - state relations, security- development nexus, inclusion, recognition; violence and conflict. T: +45 3269 8796, E: mam@diis.dk, F: +45 3269 8700 |
| Munive Rincon, Jairo, PhD, Postdoc |
| Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants; Youth employment and socio-economic reintegration in fragile states; Forced migration and displacement; Liberia, Sudan, Colombia. Contact: E: jari@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8706 |
| Olsen, Anne Sofie Westh, MA, PhD Candidate |
| Return migration; West Africa, governing elites; foreign education; migration and development; supply side governance; policy and politics for the mobility of skills; intra-African migration; the migration divide. Contact: awo@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8704 |
| Plambech, Sine, MA, Social Anthropology, PhD Candidate |
| Trafficking; deportations; marriage migration; global care chains; irregular migration; sex work; gender; repatriation; humanitarian aid; global moralities; ethnographic methods; research communication; documentarism. West Africa; Nigeria; South East Asia; Thailand; Denmark; Europe. Contact: E: spl@diis.dk, T:+45 6065 0479/ +1 347 327 3778 |
| Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg, PhD, Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Migration |
| International migration, development and conflict; the migration industry; transnational processes; gender, family and global care chains; Latin America (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru); Africa (Morocco, Somaliland). Contact E: nns@diis.dk, T: +45 32698961 |
| Stepputat, Finn, PhD, Senior Researcher |
| Issues related to violent conflict such as forced migration, relief, resettlement, rehabilitation and state formation. Also more generally stateformation, sovereignty, citizenship and democratization in areas of weak and contested state authority. Contact: E: fst@diis.dk, T: +45 3269 8685 |
| Vammen, Ida Marie, MA, PhD Candidate |
| Migration and Development; transnationalism; the role of migrants transnational religious engagement; African migrant associations in Denmark and their development activities. T: +45 3269 8707, E: imv@diis.dk, F: +45 3269 8700 |

