Nauja Kleist

PhD, Sociology; MA, International Development Studies
Senior Researcher, research unit on Migration
T: +45 3269 8667, E: , F: +45 3269 8600
Personal CV

Expertise

The relationship between migration and social mobility; enforced immobility; irregular migration; migration management; transnationalism; diaspora mobilization and diaspora politics; migration and development; repatriation, return migration and readmissions; migrant associations; home and belonging; gender, ethnicity and racialization; inclusion and exclusion mechanisms; refugees and conflict; repatriation; qualitative methods and multi-sited fieldwork; Africa (Ghana, Somalia, Somaliland) and Denmark.

Selected projects and programmes

New Geographies of Hope and Despair: The social effects of migration management for West African migrants.

Governing Diaspora Involvement: The Case of Ghana.

Somali refugees’ transnational engagement and inclusion/exclusion in Danish society.

Selected publications

Kleist, Nauja: Modern Chiefs: Tradition, Development and Return among Traditional Authorities in Ghana, African Affairs, 110(441): 629-647. 2011.

Kleist, Nauja: Negotiating Respectable Masculinity: Gender and Recognition in the
Somali Diaspora’, African Diaspora, 3(2):185-206. 2010. Download pdf.

Kleist, Nauja: Mobilizing ‘the Diaspora’. Somali Transnational Political Engagement. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 34(2): 307-323. 2008

Kleist, Nauja: In the Name of Diaspora: Between Struggles for Recognition and Political Aspirations: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 34(7): 1127-1143. 2008

Kleist, Nauja: Spaces of Recognition. An analysis of Somali-Danish associational engagement and diasporic mobilization (pdf, 5385KB). PhD dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. 2007.

Selected commissioned works

Diaspora groups as development partners. Danida. Under preparation. 2011.

Somali Collective Remittances. Diaspora contributions to conflict, peace and development in the Somali homelands. World Bank Report. With Peter Hansen. 2008.

Selected research related activities

Peer reviewer for international journals and publishers

Teaching and supervision experience, BA, MA and PhD level

Coordinator of the DIIS migration seminar series 'The politics of Deportation', fall 2011.

Co-founder of Network for Somali Studies.

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