Principal Investigator, ERC Starting Grant: The Social Life of Dead Bodies. A new ethnographic approach to migrant deaths in and around the Mediterranean Sea (SOLID), 2025-2029 Major research interests and field studies Somali migrants and refugees in the Horn of Africa, en route and in Europe, focusing on topics such as death, migration, social invisibility, mobility, Somalis, future prospects, temporality, uncertainty, clan- and family relations within and across borders, diaspora humanitarianism, European Search & Rescue operations and biometric technologies. Extended experience with multi-sited fieldwork in Ethiopia, Somaliland, Turkey, Greece , Spain, Morocco and Italy.

Roles

  • Københavns Universitet

    Other, København K, Denmark

  • The University of Copenhagen

    University, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Associate Professor

  • The University of Copenhagen

    University, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Postdoc.

  • The University of Copenhagen

    University, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Research assistant

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