Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

PhD, Cultural Sociology/Social Anthropology
Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Migration
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Personal CV

Expertise

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).

Selected projects and programmes

Migration, Deportation and the Migration Industry in Central America

Global Migration Industries (including global care chains)

The migration-Devlopment Nexus revisited: From remitting migrant superheros to deportee trash

Selected publications

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg ( 2006). Migration, Development and Conflict – The case of Somalia. In Tamas, K. and Joakim Palme (eds), Globalizing Migration Regimes: New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation. London, Ashgate.

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (ed) (2007). Living across Worlds. Geneva, International Organization for Migration.

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (2008). La familia transnacional de latinoamericanos/as en Europa. In Herrera, Gioconda and Jacques Ramírez (eds). América Latina migrante: Estado, familia, identidades. Quito Ecuador, FLACSO.

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (2009). Diáspora, desarrollo y compromiso transnacional. In Cortés, Almudena and Alicia Torres (eds). Co-desarrollo en los Andes: Contextos y actores para acción transnacional. Quito Ecuador, FLACSO.

Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (2011). The Rise and Fall of the “Migrant Superhero” and the New “Deportee Trash”: Contemporary Strain on Mobile Livelihoods in the Central American Region. Border-Lines.

Selected commissioned work

Mediterranean Transit Migration from North Africa to Europe, EU

Reintegration dynamics, Somaliland. Danish Refugee Council

Policy study on ‘Migration-Development Links’. Danida

Study of Sida Projects of Conflict Management and Peace Building. Sida

Selected research related activities

Member of the Danish Social Science Council (FSE)

Member of the board of Danida's Fellowship Center (DFC)

Senior Advisor to Danida's Regional Human Rights Programme, Central America (2005-09)

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