Ninna Nyberg Sørensen

PhD, Cultural Sociology/Social Anthropology
Senior Researcher, Head of the research unit on Migration
T: +45 3269 8961, E: , F: +45 3269 8700
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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