Anja Jørgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 157950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Jørgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Jørgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JØRGENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3864-2458 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Places of Opportunity? The Role of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Advantage on Upper Secondary Education Attainment Among Young Descendants of Immigrants in Denmark
The integration of immigrants and their descendants has long been central to European and OECD policy agendas, with educational attainment considered a key indicator of integration success. Yet, persistent native‐immigrant gaps in educational attainment remain evident, including in the Nordic countries. Understanding how social determinants such as neighbourhood conditions may shape educational outcomes is therefore important. While neighbourhood…
Far from care
This study examines how distance to specialized pediatric cancer treatment may shape the psychosocial consequences experienced by families of children with cancer. Drawing on a time geographic perspective, the study is based on 16 qualitative interviews with parents in Denmark. Although no parent expressed willingness to compromise on treatment quality for a shorter distance, those facing extended travel reported more pronounced negative experien…
Beyond the Label
Recent research has called for a more nuanced perspective on social life in structurally disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach with a combination of Danish register data and in-depth interviews of residents and local key stakeholders, we investigate dimensions of community life, collective efficacy and structural conditions in six Danish neighbourhoods labelled “ghettos” by the Danish government. Our findings reveal co…
From “ghettos” to graduation? A register-based cohort study on the long-term impact of Danish “ghetto” areas on educational attainment
Since 2010, Danish governments have published an annual list of areas designated as “ghettos,” portrayed as having a uniquely harmful culture—labeled as “parallel societies” due to ethnic and cultural factors rather than socioeconomic disadvantage alone. This study examines whether growing up in these areas affects long-term educational attainment and whether they exert a distinct influence beyond socioeconomic conditions, with previous research …
The long‐term impact of Danish vulnerable neighbourhoods in adolescence on employment status in emerging adulthood
Previous studies have linked growing up in vulnerable neighbourhoods to worse health and social outcomes in adulthood but with mixed findings regarding the impact on young people's employment status, and with studies often limited by models that did not optimally distinguish neighbourhood‐ from individual‐ or family‐level effects. The aim of this study was to examine the long‐term associations between living in a vulnerable Danish neighbourhood i…
Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion
Purpose There is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development. In the present article, the authors focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organization of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not…
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health
Previous studies have linked low neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) to mental health problems. However, few studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying this association and most focused on the association with negative indicators of mental health, such as symptoms of depression or anxiety. This paper investigated whether neighborhood social characteristics (social interaction, trust, safety, organization participation, and attachmen…
Just ask Eric
Territorial capital is more than economy, business and socioeconomic status of residents. It is also the way residents of localities form social networks and how these are intertwined with the local political, institutional and administrative configurations. Sampson (2011) argues that while social networks foster the conditions under which collective efficacy may flourish, they are not sufficient for the exercise of social cohesion and social con…
Mikropol. Eller historien om det store i det små
I artiklen tages udgangspunkt i den rurale case om Lemvig, der nægter at være udkant. Det diskuteres, hvordan casen udfordrer gængse sociologiskeforestillinger om relationen mellem center og periferi og mellem metropol og det lokale. Vi argumenterer for, at det netop er karakteren af, hvad vi til dennelejlighed betegner som »mikropol« – den internationale orientering og en lokal social kultur, som kobler sig til globale flows – der tilsammen skab…
Contexts and Interconnections
This article contributes to current debates around EU policy on territorial cohesion and its place-based approaches. Based on substantial empirical research in seven member countries in an on-going EU Horizon 2020 project, the article develops a conjunctural approach based on Doreen Massey’s conceptualisation of place to provide insight into how local development functions in spatial and temporal dimensions. One of the main objectives of the case…
Cohesion in the Local Context
This brief editorial introduces a set of articles dealing with territorial challenges in Europe. The EU and the member states have put attention to a silent, but growing issue of inequality: The spatial disparities are in several member states considered able to provide wider political tensions and challenges. Consequently, the EU has launched a research theme in its framework programme Horizon 2020 to cope with such matter. Most of the papers in…
Rural Cohesion
This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the conditions for and relations between neo-endogenous development and rural social cohesion in two different national contexts. Common to both cases are problems of demographic change, particularly los…
Social Geographical Patterns in Membership of the Established Church in Denmark
The Church of Denmark was established in 1849 and is regarded as a pillar of traditional national identity. This status is being challenged by a steady decline in membership in recent decades. The Capital area is especially prone to low membership rates, and this regional pattern remains when the analysis controls for income and education. Furthermore, the local membership rate is also related to affiliation to the neighbourhood. Our detailed ana…
Mobile Forms of Belonging
Mobility is often portrayed as the antithesis of belonging. In this article, we challenge this perspective investigating how mobility and motility influence belonging in everyday life. We develop a perspective on belonging consisting of the dimensions of mobility, people and place and conditioned by the underlying dimensions of time, resources and structures of meaning. Applying this to interview material from a case study in Aalborg, we propose …
The Sense of Belonging in New Urban Zones of Transition
In most modern sociological literature, it is a rarity to find analyses suggesting that social bonds and the sense of belonging can be strong in socially deprived areas. In the classic Chicago tradition of sociology, in the works of Park et al. and in Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, residential areas are described both as places in which the social bonds are loose and places with strong bonds. However, a focal point in this article is that the sense of…
The Chicago School of Sociology
Lokale fællesskaber i den senmoderne by
Denne artikel stiller spørgsmålstegn ved, hvorvidt sociale relationer er så lidt knyttet til og påvirket af geografi, som det ofte angives, eller om vi med sådanne antagelser overser væsentlige dimensioner omkring lokalt fællesskab og identitet. Og i forlængelse heraf vil artiklen forsøge at nærme sig et svar på, hvordan vi kan forstå lokalt fællesskab i det senmoderne byliv. Med udgangspunkt i resultaterne fra en empirisk undersøgelse af lokale …
Mobile Forms of Belonging
Mobility is often portrayed as the antithesis of belonging. In this article, we challenge this perspective investigating how mobility and motility influence belonging in everyday life. We develop a perspective on belonging consisting of the dimensions of mobility, people and place and conditioned by the underlying dimensions of time, resources and structures of meaning. Applying this to interview material from a case study in Aalborg, we propose …
The Sense of Belonging in New Urban Zones of Transition
In most modern sociological literature, it is a rarity to find analyses suggesting that social bonds and the sense of belonging can be strong in socially deprived areas. In the classic Chicago tradition of sociology, in the works of Park et al. and in Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, residential areas are described both as places in which the social bonds are loose and places with strong bonds. However, a focal point in this article is that the sense of…
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health
Previous studies have linked low neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) to mental health problems. However, few studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying this association and most focused on the association with negative indicators of mental health, such as symptoms of depression or anxiety. This paper investigated whether neighborhood social characteristics (social interaction, trust, safety, organization participation, and attachmen…
Just ask Eric
Territorial capital is more than economy, business and socioeconomic status of residents. It is also the way residents of localities form social networks and how these are intertwined with the local political, institutional and administrative configurations. Sampson (2011) argues that while social networks foster the conditions under which collective efficacy may flourish, they are not sufficient for the exercise of social cohesion and social con…
Rural Cohesion
This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the conditions for and relations between neo-endogenous development and rural social cohesion in two different national contexts. Common to both cases are problems of demographic change, particularly los…
From “ghettos” to graduation? A register-based cohort study on the long-term impact of Danish “ghetto” areas on educational attainment
Since 2010, Danish governments have published an annual list of areas designated as “ghettos,” portrayed as having a uniquely harmful culture—labeled as “parallel societies” due to ethnic and cultural factors rather than socioeconomic disadvantage alone. This study examines whether growing up in these areas affects long-term educational attainment and whether they exert a distinct influence beyond socioeconomic conditions, with previous research …
Lokale fællesskaber i den senmoderne by
Denne artikel stiller spørgsmålstegn ved, hvorvidt sociale relationer er så lidt knyttet til og påvirket af geografi, som det ofte angives, eller om vi med sådanne antagelser overser væsentlige dimensioner omkring lokalt fællesskab og identitet. Og i forlængelse heraf vil artiklen forsøge at nærme sig et svar på, hvordan vi kan forstå lokalt fællesskab i det senmoderne byliv. Med udgangspunkt i resultaterne fra en empirisk undersøgelse af lokale …
The Chicago School of Sociology
The Sense of Belonging in New Urban Zones of Transition
In most modern sociological literature, it is a rarity to find analyses suggesting that social bonds and the sense of belonging can be strong in socially deprived areas. In the classic Chicago tradition of sociology, in the works of Park et al. and in Louis Wirth's The Ghetto, residential areas are described both as places in which the social bonds are loose and places with strong bonds. However, a focal point in this article is that the sense of…
Mobile Forms of Belonging
Mobility is often portrayed as the antithesis of belonging. In this article, we challenge this perspective investigating how mobility and motility influence belonging in everyday life. We develop a perspective on belonging consisting of the dimensions of mobility, people and place and conditioned by the underlying dimensions of time, resources and structures of meaning. Applying this to interview material from a case study in Aalborg, we propose …
Social Geographical Patterns in Membership of the Established Church in Denmark
The Church of Denmark was established in 1849 and is regarded as a pillar of traditional national identity. This status is being challenged by a steady decline in membership in recent decades. The Capital area is especially prone to low membership rates, and this regional pattern remains when the analysis controls for income and education. Furthermore, the local membership rate is also related to affiliation to the neighbourhood. Our detailed ana…
Mikropol. Eller historien om det store i det små
I artiklen tages udgangspunkt i den rurale case om Lemvig, der nægter at være udkant. Det diskuteres, hvordan casen udfordrer gængse sociologiskeforestillinger om relationen mellem center og periferi og mellem metropol og det lokale. Vi argumenterer for, at det netop er karakteren af, hvad vi til dennelejlighed betegner som »mikropol« – den internationale orientering og en lokal social kultur, som kobler sig til globale flows – der tilsammen skab…
Contexts and Interconnections
This article contributes to current debates around EU policy on territorial cohesion and its place-based approaches. Based on substantial empirical research in seven member countries in an on-going EU Horizon 2020 project, the article develops a conjunctural approach based on Doreen Massey’s conceptualisation of place to provide insight into how local development functions in spatial and temporal dimensions. One of the main objectives of the case…
Cohesion in the Local Context
This brief editorial introduces a set of articles dealing with territorial challenges in Europe. The EU and the member states have put attention to a silent, but growing issue of inequality: The spatial disparities are in several member states considered able to provide wider political tensions and challenges. Consequently, the EU has launched a research theme in its framework programme Horizon 2020 to cope with such matter. Most of the papers in…
Rural Cohesion
This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the conditions for and relations between neo-endogenous development and rural social cohesion in two different national contexts. Common to both cases are problems of demographic change, particularly los…
Just ask Eric
Territorial capital is more than economy, business and socioeconomic status of residents. It is also the way residents of localities form social networks and how these are intertwined with the local political, institutional and administrative configurations. Sampson (2011) argues that while social networks foster the conditions under which collective efficacy may flourish, they are not sufficient for the exercise of social cohesion and social con…
Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion
Purpose There is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development. In the present article, the authors focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organization of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used for administrative purposes have turned out not…
Opening the black box of the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and mental health
Previous studies have linked low neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) to mental health problems. However, few studies have investigated the mechanisms underlying this association and most focused on the association with negative indicators of mental health, such as symptoms of depression or anxiety. This paper investigated whether neighborhood social characteristics (social interaction, trust, safety, organization participation, and attachmen…
The long‐term impact of Danish vulnerable neighbourhoods in adolescence on employment status in emerging adulthood
Previous studies have linked growing up in vulnerable neighbourhoods to worse health and social outcomes in adulthood but with mixed findings regarding the impact on young people's employment status, and with studies often limited by models that did not optimally distinguish neighbourhood‐ from individual‐ or family‐level effects. The aim of this study was to examine the long‐term associations between living in a vulnerable Danish neighbourhood i…
Beyond the Label
Recent research has called for a more nuanced perspective on social life in structurally disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Drawing on a mixed-methods approach with a combination of Danish register data and in-depth interviews of residents and local key stakeholders, we investigate dimensions of community life, collective efficacy and structural conditions in six Danish neighbourhoods labelled “ghettos” by the Danish government. Our findings reveal co…
From “ghettos” to graduation? A register-based cohort study on the long-term impact of Danish “ghetto” areas on educational attainment
Since 2010, Danish governments have published an annual list of areas designated as “ghettos,” portrayed as having a uniquely harmful culture—labeled as “parallel societies” due to ethnic and cultural factors rather than socioeconomic disadvantage alone. This study examines whether growing up in these areas affects long-term educational attainment and whether they exert a distinct influence beyond socioeconomic conditions, with previous research …
Places of Opportunity? The Role of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Advantage on Upper Secondary Education Attainment Among Young Descendants of Immigrants in Denmark
The integration of immigrants and their descendants has long been central to European and OECD policy agendas, with educational attainment considered a key indicator of integration success. Yet, persistent native‐immigrant gaps in educational attainment remain evident, including in the Nordic countries. Understanding how social determinants such as neighbourhood conditions may shape educational outcomes is therefore important. While neighbourhood…
Far from care
This study examines how distance to specialized pediatric cancer treatment may shape the psychosocial consequences experienced by families of children with cancer. Drawing on a time geographic perspective, the study is based on 16 qualitative interviews with parents in Denmark. Although no parent expressed willingness to compromise on treatment quality for a shorter distance, those facing extended travel reported more pronounced negative experien…
Sociology (12 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 works) · Regional Development and Policy (5 works) · Danish (4 works) · Rural development and sustainability (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works)