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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
  • 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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    Updated: 19/09/11