Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 115086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ninna Nyberg Sørensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ninna Nyberg |
| FAMILY NAME | Sørensen |
| SIGNATURE | SØRENSEN N N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish Institute for International Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3560-6291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Managing recruitment, risk, and reintegration: Ethiopian domestic workers and the migration industry
Over the past 30 years, an increasing number of young Ethiopian women have migrated to the Arab Gulf States. Their precarious working conditions and associated vulnerabilities have received considerable attention, often alongside critiques of the kafala system of temporary migrant labour governance in the region. Less attention has been paid to the sending state's complicity in upholding the system. This article examines the infrastructures and m…
More than Maids: Social Mobility Experiences Among Ethiopian Women Migrating to the United Arab Emirates
The migration of Ethiopian women to the Middle East has primarily been studied in connection with domestic labour and the related vulnerabilities. Due to assumptions about the low educational levels of women entering this sector, as well as the precarity and temporality the sector entails, opportunities for social mobility have been largely overlooked. This article examines changes in Ethiopian women’s labour market participation in the United Ar…
Introduction to the special section: Unfolding a governance perspective on climate-related mobilities
Attention to the linkages between climate change and human mobility practices – including immobility – has mounted as climate-related mobility becomes more evident. Research and policy engagement have followed, with increasing recognition of the complexity of climate-related mobility countering simplistic causal models. In this introduction and special section, we seek specifically to highlight the relationship between governance and climate-rela…
International migration in Latin America: Critical perspectives on the construction of a field of knowledge
El presente artículo es una reflexión en torno a las lógicas epistemológicas y las políticas que atraviesan los estudios migratorios en América Latina a través de tres dimensiones: a) La creciente heterogeneidad de las personas en movimiento y la necesidad de repensar las categorías conceptuales con las que se aborda la migración. b) El diálogo y la apropiación de marcos analíticos producidos en otras regiones respecto a los estudios latinoameric…
Interviewsamtale: Om at bedrive forskning i et politiseret felt
Interviewsamtale: Om at bedrive forskning i et politiseret felt
The transnational continuum of conditional inclusion: From marginalized immigrants to rejected returnees
Research on Dominican migration to the United States ranges from analyses emphasizing incorporation to those exploring diaspora formation and the weaving of transnational ties. Based on a juxtaposition of ethnographic research conducted among Dominican families in New York City in the early 1990s with a recent fieldwork with deported nationals in Santo Domingo, this article approaches conditional inclusion in transnational social space. I examine…
Crisis as ‘slow’ or an existential state of being: A reply to ‘Slow crisis in Bissau and beyond’ by Henrik Vigh
Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts
In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the missing migrants resulting from increasingly rigid migration policies focused on deterrence. Empirical examples from the Guatemalan and Bosnian genocides and from contemporary illegalised migration flows from Guatemala to North America and across the Mediterranean…
Governing through the mutilated female body
This chapter examines the brutal killing of women in post-war Guatemala, the interpretations that these murders engender and the place of the dead bodies in the country's contestations over sovereignty. It provides a powerful means of exploring corpses, bodypolitics and contestation in contemporary Guatemala. The chapter suggests that in Guatemala, as in Ciudad Juarez, the mutilated female body has become central to the making and territorialisat…
Diffusing gender equality norms in the midst of a feminicide pandemic: The case of Amexcid and decentralized Mexican South-South cooperation
Mexican development policy is guided by the country’s dual function as both a recipient and a provider of international cooperation. Over the past 17 years, the country has taken several initiatives to promote gender equality nationally, and today gender equality norms cut across Mexican priorities in foreign policy and South-South cooperation activities. Paradoxically, the gains achieved at policy formulating tables have been accompanied by a ri…
From Migrant Identity to Migration Industry: The changing conditions of transnational migration
In this article, I reflect on changes in the conditions of transnational mobility over the past 25 years. Drawing on continuous engagement with Dominican migrants in sending, transit, destination and return situations, I argue that increasingly strict migration control measures during this period have profoundly altered the existential option of living lives across borders. I specifically address changes in the right to move and settle, the absen…
Narrating Identity Across Dominican Worlds 1
This chapter offers key examples of how identity is voiced in contemporary Dominican transnational landscapes, and the gendered forms transnationalism takes. It uses various types of material—ranging from personal migration narratives and "native" novels, written about Dominican experiences from a US-based room with a view, to local commercials, using the view to boost their products. Identity is voiced in a great variety of ways in contemporary …
Presentación del dossier. Migraciones internacionales en América Latina: Miradas críticas a la producción de un campo de conocimientos
Este texto presenta una reflexión sobre las lógicas epistemológicas y políticas que atraviesan los estudios sobre las migraciones en América Latina desde tres dimensiones: 1) la creciente heterogeneidad de flujos y la necesidad de repensar las categorías conceptuales con las que se aborda las migraciones; 2) el diálogo y apropiación de marcos analíticos producidos en otras regiones en los estudios latinoamericanos; y 3) las agendas políticas de l…
Coherence and Contradictions in Danish Migration-Development Policy and Practice
War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala - edited by McAllister, Carlotta and Nelson, Diane M
Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics and Everyday Life - by Krohn-Hansen, Christian
Maya after War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala - by Burrell, Jennifer L
Racializing Affect: A Theoretical Proposition
Despite the recent boom in scholarly works on affect from a range of disciplines, scant attention has been paid to the intersection of affect and racialization processes, either historically or in contemporary contexts. This paper situates the diachronic articulation of race and affect-particularly in terms of the historical everyday lives and the political, economic, and material contexts of populations from Latin American and Caribbean backgrou…
Sociology and Forced Migration
This chapter examines the sociology of forced migration and how forced migration studies have contributed to sociology. It considers how sociological methods, concepts, and theories have advanced our understanding of the causes, experiences, and impacts of forced migration on micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. In particular, it looks at how sociology has tended to be defined by policy labels and categories, such as refugees, internally displaced pe…
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Introduction Ninna Nyberg Sorensen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1. Conceptualizing the Migration Industry Ruben Hernandez-Leon 2. The Migration Industry in Global Migration Governance Alexander Betts 3. Migration Trajectories and the Migration Industry: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Examples from Asia Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann 4. The Migration Industry and Development States in East Asia Kristin Surak 5. The Neoliberalized State …
Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict: Toward a Decolonized Global Justice. By Ariadna Estevez
The main argument presented in Ariadna Estévez’s critical analysis of the causal relationship between globalization, migration, and social conflict is as follows: since failure to respect the universal human rights of immigrants generates conflict in receiving and transit nations, recognizing human rights would be in the best interest of sending, receiving and transit countries alike. Estévez’s analysis is based on a comparison of certain element…
Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes - by González, Olga M
Revisiting the Migration–Development Nexus: From Social Networks and Remittances to Markets for Migration Control
In this paper, I explore the nexus between migration, development and security in South–North migration through an analysis of certain discursive constructions in current migration policy debates; in particular, the migration–development nexus that attempts to make migration work for development in the global South, and the migration–security nexus that legitimizes stricter border controls and migration management in the global North. Shifting ge…
Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 - by Opie, Frederick D
Den globale familie: Opløsning eller transnationalisering af familien
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen: The Global Family – Disintegration or Transnationalization of the Family? The identification of the family with the domestic group has given rise to various analytical problems in migration research. Many researchers have argued that family separation due to migration leads inevitably to family disintegration. Prediction of such negative outcomes has been conspicuously salient in work dealing with migrant mothers who leave …
Racializing Affect: A Theoretical Proposition
Despite the recent boom in scholarly works on affect from a range of disciplines, scant attention has been paid to the intersection of affect and racialization processes, either historically or in contemporary contexts. This paper situates the diachronic articulation of race and affect-particularly in terms of the historical everyday lives and the political, economic, and material contexts of populations from Latin American and Caribbean backgrou…
Revisiting the Migration–Development Nexus: From Social Networks and Remittances to Markets for Migration Control
In this paper, I explore the nexus between migration, development and security in South–North migration through an analysis of certain discursive constructions in current migration policy debates; in particular, the migration–development nexus that attempts to make migration work for development in the global South, and the migration–security nexus that legitimizes stricter border controls and migration management in the global North. Shifting ge…
The Rise and Fall of 'Internally Displaced People' in the Central Peruvian Andes
This article analyses the possible effects of the introduction of the category of 'internally displaced people'- IDP - in the context of violent conflict in central Peru. It gives an account of the ways in which the IDP category has been introduced and appropriated by local NGOs, people affected by violent conflict and displacement, and by the governmental organization, PAR, set up to facilitate return and repopulation after the declared end of t…
Coherence and Contradictions in Danish Migration-Development Policy and Practice
Diffusing gender equality norms in the midst of a feminicide pandemic: The case of Amexcid and decentralized Mexican South-South cooperation
Mexican development policy is guided by the country’s dual function as both a recipient and a provider of international cooperation. Over the past 17 years, the country has taken several initiatives to promote gender equality nationally, and today gender equality norms cut across Mexican priorities in foreign policy and South-South cooperation activities. Paradoxically, the gains achieved at policy formulating tables have been accompanied by a ri…
From Migrant Identity to Migration Industry: The changing conditions of transnational migration
In this article, I reflect on changes in the conditions of transnational mobility over the past 25 years. Drawing on continuous engagement with Dominican migrants in sending, transit, destination and return situations, I argue that increasingly strict migration control measures during this period have profoundly altered the existential option of living lives across borders. I specifically address changes in the right to move and settle, the absen…
Presentación del dossier. Migraciones internacionales en América Latina: Miradas críticas a la producción de un campo de conocimientos
Este texto presenta una reflexión sobre las lógicas epistemológicas y políticas que atraviesan los estudios sobre las migraciones en América Latina desde tres dimensiones: 1) la creciente heterogeneidad de flujos y la necesidad de repensar las categorías conceptuales con las que se aborda las migraciones; 2) el diálogo y apropiación de marcos analíticos producidos en otras regiones en los estudios latinoamericanos; y 3) las agendas políticas de l…
Narrations of authority and mobility
Women and men use local experience and experiences gained elsewhere when they embark on migratory projects to reconfigure social space and practices back home. To explore this claim, the authors argue that we must analyze the relationship between mobility and authority, especially how experiences of mobility bestow authority on the moving subjects. This argument is illustrated by an examination of three differently situated narratives from which …
Missing Migrants and the Politics of Disappearance in Armed Conflicts and Migratory Contexts
In this article we set out to understand the issue of enforced or involuntary disappearance in two seemingly different situations: the missing persons produced by armed conflict and the missing migrants resulting from increasingly rigid migration policies focused on deterrence. Empirical examples from the Guatemalan and Bosnian genocides and from contemporary illegalised migration flows from Guatemala to North America and across the Mediterranean…
From Transnationalism to the Emergence of a New Transnational Research Field
Sallie Westwood and Annie Phizacklea Trans‐nationalism and the politics of belonging Michael Peter Smith Transnational urbanism: locating globalization Ludger Pries (ed.) New transnational social spaces: international migration and transnational companies in the early twenty‐first century
Roots, Routes and Transnational Attractions: Dominican Migration, Gender and Cultural Change
Roots, Routes and Transnational Attractions: Dominican Migration, Gender and Cultural Change
Mænd, Migration og Byrum i Grænselandet mellem Spanien og Marokko
The article analyses the narratives of three male bordercrossers from Tetuán, a northern Moroccan city. Together with the overall majority of Tetuani inhabitants, these men share a critical view on Spain and Spaniards, simultaneously as their symbolic resistance towards the Moroccan state and the former King Hassan II is expressed by making reference to Spanish ethno- and landscaping.
Crossing the Spanish-Moroccan Border with Migrants, New Islamists, and Riff-Raff
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Narrations of authority and mobility
Women and men use local experience and experiences gained elsewhere when they embark on migratory projects to reconfigure social space and practices back home. To explore this claim, the authors argue that we must analyze the relationship between mobility and authority, especially how experiences of mobility bestow authority on the moving subjects. This argument is illustrated by an examination of three differently situated narratives from which …
The Rise and Fall of 'Internally Displaced People' in the Central Peruvian Andes
This article analyses the possible effects of the introduction of the category of 'internally displaced people'- IDP - in the context of violent conflict in central Peru. It gives an account of the ways in which the IDP category has been introduced and appropriated by local NGOs, people affected by violent conflict and displacement, and by the governmental organization, PAR, set up to facilitate return and repopulation after the declared end of t…
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Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World
Introduction: Mobile Livelihoods: Making a Living in the World Part 1: Mobile Livelihoods - Regional and Historical Perspectives Part 2: Livelihoods Extended Part 3: Livelihoods and the Transnational Return
From Transnationalism to the Emergence of a New Transnational Research Field
Sallie Westwood and Annie Phizacklea Trans‐nationalism and the politics of belonging Michael Peter Smith Transnational urbanism: locating globalization Ludger Pries (ed.) New transnational social spaces: international migration and transnational companies in the early twenty‐first century
Den globale familie: Opløsning eller transnationalisering af familien
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen: The Global Family – Disintegration or Transnationalization of the Family? The identification of the family with the domestic group has given rise to various analytical problems in migration research. Many researchers have argued that family separation due to migration leads inevitably to family disintegration. Prediction of such negative outcomes has been conspicuously salient in work dealing with migrant mothers who leave …
Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 - by Opie, Frederick D
Revisiting the Migration–Development Nexus: From Social Networks and Remittances to Markets for Migration Control
In this paper, I explore the nexus between migration, development and security in South–North migration through an analysis of certain discursive constructions in current migration policy debates; in particular, the migration–development nexus that attempts to make migration work for development in the global South, and the migration–security nexus that legitimizes stricter border controls and migration management in the global North. Shifting ge…
The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration
Introduction Ninna Nyberg Sorensen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 1. Conceptualizing the Migration Industry Ruben Hernandez-Leon 2. The Migration Industry in Global Migration Governance Alexander Betts 3. Migration Trajectories and the Migration Industry: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Examples from Asia Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann 4. The Migration Industry and Development States in East Asia Kristin Surak 5. The Neoliberalized State …
Human Rights, Migration, and Social Conflict: Toward a Decolonized Global Justice. By Ariadna Estevez
The main argument presented in Ariadna Estévez’s critical analysis of the causal relationship between globalization, migration, and social conflict is as follows: since failure to respect the universal human rights of immigrants generates conflict in receiving and transit nations, recognizing human rights would be in the best interest of sending, receiving and transit countries alike. Estévez’s analysis is based on a comparison of certain element…
Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes - by González, Olga M
Sociology and Forced Migration
This chapter examines the sociology of forced migration and how forced migration studies have contributed to sociology. It considers how sociological methods, concepts, and theories have advanced our understanding of the causes, experiences, and impacts of forced migration on micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. In particular, it looks at how sociology has tended to be defined by policy labels and categories, such as refugees, internally displaced pe…
Coherence and Contradictions in Danish Migration-Development Policy and Practice
War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala - edited by McAllister, Carlotta and Nelson, Diane M
Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics and Everyday Life - by Krohn-Hansen, Christian
Maya after War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala - by Burrell, Jennifer L
Racializing Affect: A Theoretical Proposition
Despite the recent boom in scholarly works on affect from a range of disciplines, scant attention has been paid to the intersection of affect and racialization processes, either historically or in contemporary contexts. This paper situates the diachronic articulation of race and affect-particularly in terms of the historical everyday lives and the political, economic, and material contexts of populations from Latin American and Caribbean backgrou…
Narrating Identity Across Dominican Worlds 1
This chapter offers key examples of how identity is voiced in contemporary Dominican transnational landscapes, and the gendered forms transnationalism takes. It uses various types of material—ranging from personal migration narratives and "native" novels, written about Dominican experiences from a US-based room with a view, to local commercials, using the view to boost their products. Identity is voiced in a great variety of ways in contemporary …
Presentación del dossier. Migraciones internacionales en América Latina: Miradas críticas a la producción de un campo de conocimientos
Este texto presenta una reflexión sobre las lógicas epistemológicas y políticas que atraviesan los estudios sobre las migraciones en América Latina desde tres dimensiones: 1) la creciente heterogeneidad de flujos y la necesidad de repensar las categorías conceptuales con las que se aborda las migraciones; 2) el diálogo y apropiación de marcos analíticos producidos en otras regiones en los estudios latinoamericanos; y 3) las agendas políticas de l…
Diffusing gender equality norms in the midst of a feminicide pandemic: The case of Amexcid and decentralized Mexican South-South cooperation
Mexican development policy is guided by the country’s dual function as both a recipient and a provider of international cooperation. Over the past 17 years, the country has taken several initiatives to promote gender equality nationally, and today gender equality norms cut across Mexican priorities in foreign policy and South-South cooperation activities. Paradoxically, the gains achieved at policy formulating tables have been accompanied by a ri…
From Migrant Identity to Migration Industry: The changing conditions of transnational migration
In this article, I reflect on changes in the conditions of transnational mobility over the past 25 years. Drawing on continuous engagement with Dominican migrants in sending, transit, destination and return situations, I argue that increasingly strict migration control measures during this period have profoundly altered the existential option of living lives across borders. I specifically address changes in the right to move and settle, the absen…
Governing through the mutilated female body
This chapter examines the brutal killing of women in post-war Guatemala, the interpretations that these murders engender and the place of the dead bodies in the country's contestations over sovereignty. It provides a powerful means of exploring corpses, bodypolitics and contestation in contemporary Guatemala. The chapter suggests that in Guatemala, as in Ciudad Juarez, the mutilated female body has become central to the making and territorialisat…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (8 works)