Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
GRS works to foster and communicate a deeper understanding of what happens when the world is moved and people move within it. Whether conflict, land-grabbing or poverty are the critical moving factors, GRS’s multi-disciplinary research capacity offers outstanding analyses of the relationship between large-scale political and economic processes and the lived experiences of people on the ground and their dreams for a better future.
We explore the underlying dynamics of forced migration, the ways that refugees and marginalized maneuver, and the intersection between these groups and authorities’ attempt to curb, tap into, or manage these movements, be it by border control, humanitarian interventions or integration policies.
The vision is animated by the analysis that conflict, movement, the inability to move as well as forced displacement are intimately interconnected in an increasingly globalized world in which the majority live precarious and uncertain lives. GRS contributes with critical analyses, such as how the colonial encounter still shapes how we today relate to displacement and social hierarchies including, but not limited to, relations of race, gender, and class.
The aim of the Global Refugee Studies (GRS) research group is to create new theoretical, empirical and methodological knowledge about the main causes and consequences of, and possible solutions to the problems of refugees and other victims of forced displacement. The normative and ethical premise is that such people in flight are human beings with serious problems rather than human beings as problems.
The group is multidisciplinary and its membership ranges from Political Science, International Relations and Law to Anthropology – and it is open to researchers from other academic disciplines.
The main output is publication via “academic” channels such as articles in peer reviewed journals and monographs, but the project also organises seminars and similar events as well as contributing to the public debate in Denmark and elsewhere. It also serves as the research foundation of the study programme Global Refugee Studies.
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Collaborations from the last five years
Profiles
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Ahlam Chemlali
- The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - PhD Student
- Department of Politics and Society - PhD Student
- GRS - Global Refugee Studies - Ph.d.-studerende
- MIX - Center for Displacement, Migration and Integration
Person: VIP, External
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Tamirace Fakhoury
- The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - Associate Professor
- Department of Politics and Society - Associate Professor
- GRS - Global Refugee Studies - Lektor
- MIX - Center for Displacement, Migration and Integration
Person: VIP
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The Mobility of the Closet. Queer Refugees Transgressing Heterosexual Borderlands
15/03/2022 → 15/03/2025
Project: PhD Project
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Everyday Violence in the Borderlands: Migrant women in transit from Africa to Europe
01/12/2020 → 01/12/2024
Project: Research
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Power Sharing Politics and Refugee Governance: Crafting Asylum Policy in Deeply Divided Societies
Fakhoury, T. & McCulloch, A.
National Research Council of Canada
01/10/2020 → 01/10/2024
Project: Research
Research output
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A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented Motherhood, Waiting and Smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan Borderlands
Chemlali, A., Mar 2023, In: Trends in Organized Crime. 26, 1, p. 30–47 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Constructions of migrant victims of labor exploitation in Nordic court cases
Spanger, M., Schoultz, I., Ollus, N., Økland Jahnsen, S., Muhire, H. & Pekkarinen, A-G., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: International Review of Victimology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Convoluted mobility: On the precarious movements of transnational migrant workers
Spanger, M. & Andersen, M., 2023, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 49, 13, p. 3473-3491 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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EliteForsk Rejsestipendie
Chemlali, Ahlam (Recipient), 20 Feb 2023
Prize: Research, education and innovation prizes
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Activities
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Grenzüberschreitungen. Queere Perspektiven auf Migration und Religion
Rieke Schröder (Organizer) & Yannik Ehmer (Organizer)
25 Aug 2023 → 27 Aug 2023Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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Shifting paradigms, not identities. LGBTIQ+ refugees queering temporalities in Denmark
Rieke Schröder (Lecturer)
Jul 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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"People are afraid to date me". LGBTIQ+ refugees' attempts to build a life in Denmark
Rieke Schröder (Lecturer)
1 Jun 2023Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
Press/Media
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”Tan” var køkkenslave på Michelin-restaurant: De danske regler gjorde ham til let offer
07/09/2023 → 08/09/2023
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Lebanon: If UN doesn't pay for electricity, Syrian refugees will go without
26/08/2023
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Lebanon's Government Slams UN Failure To Pay Refugee Electricity Bill
24/08/2023 → 25/08/2023
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Impacts
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Co-creation of Knowledge
Vibeke Andersson (Participant) & Helene Balslev Clausen (Participant)
Impact: Social impact, Cultural impact, Other impact
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Fattigdom og udvikling
Vibeke Andersson (Participant)
Impact: Public policy impact, Cultural impact, Social impact, Other impact
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Integration and Employment; Meeting the 'Other'
Vibeke Andersson (Participant) & Helene Balslev Clausen (Participant)
Impact: Public policy impact, Social impact, Cultural impact
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