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.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5303 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2348-5982 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/www.linkedin.com/in/anja-simonsen-0450694a/ | |
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Københavns Universitet
Other, København K, Denmark
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The University of Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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The University of Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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The University of Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Suggested Research
The “Transnational Business of Death” Among Somali Migrants in the Streets of Athens
| Authors | Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
Risk, Improvisation, and Emergency Governance on the Mediterranean Sea
| Authors | Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
Crossing (Biometric) Borders: Turning ‘Gravity’ Upside Down
| Authors | Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos |
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards
| Authors | Luca Ciabarri, Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers
| Authors | Kristina Grünenberg, Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Papeles del CEIC |
Når stemmerne forstummer
| Authors | Perle Møhl, Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Tidsskriftet Antropologi |
Images of torture: 'affective solidarity' and the search for ransom in the global Somali community
| Authors | Anja Simonsen, Mohamed S. Tarabi |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Introduction
| Authors | Camilla Ida Ravnbøl, Trine Mygind Korsby, Anja Simonsen |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society |
Issue Introduction: IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration
| Authors | Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, Karen Fog Olwig, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos |
The Biometric Border World
| Authors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
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Introducing the site
| Authors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | The Biometric Border World |
Fleeting (biometric) encounters
| Authors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | The Biometric Border World |
‘In-formation’ and ‘Out-formation’
| Authors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | The Biometric Border World |
Epilogue
| Authors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | The Biometric Border World |