Marlene Spanger

PhD in Social Science, MA in International Development Studies and History

Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Global Studies (CL)
Associate Professor, The Faculty of Social Sciences
Associate Professor, GRS - Global Refugee Studies
Center for Inclusion and Welfare

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7220-1758

Phone+45 5044 4180, +45 9940 9163
Emailspanger@cgs.aau.dk
Website

Frederikskaj 10B, C, 228
2450 København SV
Denmark
A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, Frederiks Kaj 10B
2450 København SV
Denmark

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Through research on labour migration, human trafficking and sex for sale, I investigate processes of inclusion and exclusion; how migrants, as minorities, in various ways are excluded and included in the receiving society in terms of discrimination and racism. I do this from a bottom up and a top down perspective:

1) From below I investigate how the subject positions of the migrants are established and negotiated through the intersecting markers such as i.e. gender, racialisation, professions and sexuality. Taking this perspective reveals the creation of different contested identities as well as how migrants navigate within the regimes of migration, prostitution and the labour market.

2) From above I explore how actors like the state, NGOs and enterprise shape the mobility and the work conditions of the migrants. For instance, I study how migrants are governed through the nexus of anti-trafficking and prostitution policies as well as the nexus of anti-trafficking, migrations- and labour market policies.

Keywords

Discourse and Society
Migration
Human trafficking
Labour Migration
Sexuality
intimacies
Racialisation
Ethnography
sex for sale
Transnational marriage
Gender
Prostitution
Discourse analysis

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Projects 2011 2019

3 Finished

META: Human Trafficking and Forced Labour

Spanger, M., Lund Thomsen, T. & Sharar, N.

01/01/2016 → 31/03/2019

Project: Research

ProPol: COST Action IS1209: Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance

Spanger, M.

08/04/2013 → 04/03/2016

Project: Research

Researching Difference

Pristed Nielsen, H., Bloksgaard, L., Kennedy-Macfoy, M., Faber, S. T., Lund Thomsen, T., Jørgensen, M. B., Jensen, S. Q. & Spanger, M.

25/03/2011 → 01/08/2012

Project: Research

Research Output 2001 2018

12 Book chapter
11 Journal article
4 Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
2 Anthology
7 More

Fluid Sexualities Beyond Sex Work And Marriage: Thai Migrants’ Racialised Gender Performance in Copenhagen

Spanger, M., May 2018, Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economics, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World. Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds.). New York : Berghahn Books, 31 p.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Migranten før arbejdstageren

Spanger, M., 2018, (In preparation) p. 1, 15 p.

Research output: Working paper › Research

Speaking about sex for sale historically, spatially and politically

Skillbrei, M-L. & Spanger, M., 2018, Understanding Sex for Sale : Meanings and Moralities of Sexual Commerce. Skilbrei, M-L. & Spanger, M. (eds.). Oxon: Routledge, 27 p.

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Prostitution

Morality

Reader

Sexual

Commerce

Surveillance of dangerous liaisons through notions of sex and money

Spanger, M., 2018, Understanding Sex for Sale: Meanings and Moralities of Sexual Commerce . Skilbrei, M-L. & Spanger, M. (eds.). Oxon: Routledge, 20 p. (Interdisciplinary studies in sex for sale).

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

The presence and absence of sex workers' mothering

Spanger, M., 21 Nov 2018, Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research. Dewey, S., Crowhurst, I. & Izugbara, C. (eds.). Routledge, p. 304-315 25 p. (Routledge International Handbooks, Vol. Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research).

Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

migrant

worker

motherhood

survival strategy

prostitution