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Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

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
  • The Migration Industry and New Markets for Migration Control
  • The migration-Devlopment Nexus: Economic, social and political potentials in international migration

  • Selected publications

  • Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg. (2012). The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration (ed. with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen). London/New York: Routledge.
  • Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg. (2012). Revisiting the migration-development nexus: From social networks and remittances to markets for migration control. International Migration, Vol 50, no. 3:61-76.
  • 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.
  • Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg (ed.). (2007). Living across Worlds. Geneva, International Organization for Migration.
  • 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.

  • 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 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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