INTERPRETING is the first Danish project with a sociolinguistic perspective on the use of interpreters by the public sector.
Research projects
Collaborative migration research projects with participation of researchers at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen:
Current projects
DIGINAUTS: MIGRANTS’ DIGITAL PRACTICES IN/OF THE EUROPEAN BORDER REGIME
The Velux Core Group Project is an interdisciplinary research project, which explores migrants’ widespread, varied and innovative digital practices as they navigate through and in the European border regime, and potentially create networks of solidarity and remake migration.
Marie Sandberg is the leader of subproject 3 on DIGINAUTS in the Öresund region. Participant: Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, Saxo.
CAMP - The Carceral Mobilities Project
This project at the SAXO-institute will develop the analytic concept of the “carceral junction” as a way of grasping the paradoxical work and consequences of asylum camps in Denmark and beyond.
PI: Simon Turner
Helping Hands: Research network on the everyday border work of European citizens
The interdisciplinary research network gathers researchers from 6 different countries. Through a selection of six European locales, the network will explore the different ways of doing solidarity work in European everyday life, in support of refugees coming to Europe.
PI: Marie Sandberg
Remote relocations – work precarity and the inclusion of newcomers on Lolland
This project explores how the everyday inclusion of newcomers in a Danish rural area is shaped by precarities of work and place.
PI: Birgitte Romme Larsen, Associate professor, AU
Previous projects
Cross-border healthcare among Turkish immigrants in Denmark with particular focus on the elderly
This project at the SAXO-institute explores healthcare practices among elderly Turkish immigrants in Denmark.
Migration, State and Pedagogy: Migration as prism for pedagogical studies of state formation processes
Project at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication with the overall aim of developing new fields of study for educational research that can capture the intersections and dynamics between issues/objects of welfare work, migration and state (trans)formation processes across different national, regional, local and institutional settings and contexts.
PI: Bolette Moldenhawer
Professional interventions as a state-crafting grammar addressing "the immigrant"
Collective research project at Department of Media, Cognition and Communicationexploring professional interventions in today’s state practices and how the transformation in professional interventions is related to historical processes of state transformation.
Talking Neolithic - Recovering the Language of the First European Farmers
Forskningsprojekt finansieret af bevillinger fra Det Frie Forskningsråd | Kultur og Kommunikation og Det Frie Forskningsråds Sapere Aude karriereprogram DFF-Ung Eliteforsker 2012.
The Genomic History of Denmark
Interdisciplinary research project making Denmark the first country in the world to map its evolutionary, demographic and health history. Combining natural science and humanities the project can add new views to Danish and European debates on heritage, identity, national affiliations and cultural and historical understandings.
PI: Professor Eske Willerslev, Natural History Museum of Denmark