Dr. Marie Sandberg is Associate professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at University of Copenhagen. Trained as an ethnologist her research focuses on everyday life Europeanisation, European borders and migration practices. She studies how borders in/of everyday life are continuously negotiated, overcome, and rebuilt in interactions such as volunteer work in support of refugees coming to Europe. She is the PI of the research-practice collaborative project conducted in collaboration with DRC Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross, and Absalon: Boundary Work - New interfaces between state and civil society: Volunteerism and refugees in a self-support and repatriation context research network, which is funded by the VELUX Foundations 2021-2024. From 2017-2019 she was the PI of Helping Hands: Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens
funded by the Danish Research Council for Independent Research, and from 2018-2021 Co-PI of the core-group project Diginauts: Migrants’ digital practices in/of the European border regime funded by the Velux Foundations 2018-2020. She has organized several international research conferences and published a number of peer-reviewed articles in high-ranked journals such as Identities and Journal of European Studies, as well as edited volumes. Marie Sandberg was joint editor-in-chief (with Monique Scheer) of the international, A-ranked Ethnologia Europaea – Journal of European Ethnology from 2013-2020. Marie Sandberg is vividly engaged in discussions within international as well as Nordic fields of migration and border studies.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 656 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7831-3419 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
Roles
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University of Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Director of Centre for Advanced Migration Studies -
Københavns Universitet
Other, København K, Denmark
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University of Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor
Research
Cou/rage! On Permanent Temporariness and the Precarization of Academia
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Frivillighedens grænsearbejde
| Authors | Katrine Syppli Kohl, Marie Sandberg, Rikke Egaa Jørgensen, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Paradigmeskiftets konsekvenser |
Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Reading matters |
Contrapuntal Connectedness: Analysing Relations Between Social Media Data and Ethnography in Digital Migration Studies
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, Luca Rossi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Caring for (Big) Data: An Introduction to Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
How to Hatch the Wings of a Mockingbird: A Comment on the EU’s New Migration and Asylum Pact and the Risk of Destroying Civil Society Engagement in Refugee Relief Work Internally to the EU Memberstates
| Authors | Dorte J. Andersen, Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The temporality of humanitarianism : Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
| Authors | Synnøve Bendixsen, Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Intersections | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Borderless worlds for whom? Ethics, moralities and mobilities
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Space and Polity |
Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Dorte J. Andersen |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 12 |
Precarious Citizenship and Melancholic Longing: On the Value of Volunteering after the Refugee Arrivals to Europe 2015
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Dorte J. Andersen |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 12 |
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research
| Authors | Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto, Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas, ... |
| Year | 2020 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Retrospective ethnographies
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2020 |
| Book Title | Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research |
Languages and Silence in the German‐Polish Borderland by Elizabeth R. Vann New York: Piasa Books, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, 2015. 291 pages.
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | American Anthropologist | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“Dearest Little Wife”: <i>The Gender Work of Polish Transnational Families in Past and Present</i>
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Nordic Journal of Migration Research |
Restructuring locality: practice, identity and place-making on the German-Polish border
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Identities |
ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA REVISITED: LAUNCHING FUTURE ETHNOLOGIES An Introduction
| Authors | Marie Sandberg |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Europaea |
BETWEEN SOCIAL DUMPING AND SOCIAL PROTECTION The Challenge of Creating Orderly Working Conditions among Polish Circular Migrants in the Copenhagen Area, Denmark
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Niels Jul Nielsen |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Europaea | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Exitorial
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Monique Scheer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Europaea |
Editorial note
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Monique Scheer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Europaea |
Fabricating Data, Undermining Trust, or: Why We Omitted Work from Our Digital Archive: Editorial by the Joint Editors-in-Chief Editorial by the Joint Editors-in-Chief
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Monique Scheer |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Ethnologia Europaea |
Suggested Research
Out of sync: temporal governance and agency in refugee families with temporary protection status in Denmark
| Authors | Ditte Shapiro, Ditte Shapiro, Katrine Syppli Kohl, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Out of sync: temporal governance and agency in refugee families with temporary protection status in Denmark
| Authors | Ditte Shapiro, Katrine Syppli Kohl, Rikke Egaa Jorgensen, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Boundary work in times of deterrence: emotionalisation, interdependence and inequality at the interfaces between refugees, state and civil society
| Authors | Marie Sandberg, Katrine Syppli Kohl, Ditte Krogh Shapiro, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |