Roskilde University Denmark
Marta Padovan-Özdemir
Co-I Denmark
I am an Associate Professor of social interventions studies and social innovation at the Department of People & Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. I am affiliated with the research group, Organisation, Ethics and Social Sustainability (OrgESS). My research centres on diversity and discrimination with a focus on racialization in welfare work with migrants. This research focus also entails an interest in subversive practices to counter oppression. Methodologically, I work at the intersections of historical-sociological documentary analysis and ethnographic intervention exploring critical storytelling, montage and dissensus in qualitative research. I am also engaged in developing socially sustainable and just collaborations between researchers and research participants. I have recently ended a three-year project on the development of education tools for the promotion of critical thinking and prevention of radicalization funded by the Danish Ministry of Education. On-going projects include two research projects on norm-critical pedagogy and norm-creative innovation funded by the Danish Union of Social Educators.
I have authored and co-authored a range of articles and books among which include: “Making precarious immigrant families and weaving the Danish welfare nation-state fabric 1970-2010 (2016, with Bolette Moldenhawer) in Race Ethnicity and Education. “Migrant parents enacting citizenship” (2020, with Barbara Day) in the edited volume Family Life in Transition. I have co-edited the volume, Statecrafting on the Fringes: Studies of Welfare Work Addressing the Other (2019, with Trine Øland, Christian Ydesen and Bolette Moldehawer). I have recently published the monograph, Racism in Danish welfare work with refugees. Troubled by docility, difference and dignity (2022, with Trine Øland).
Kristina Grünenberg
I am currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen and as a senior researcher affiliated to the researcher group: “Organization, Ethics and Social sustainability” at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University. Since the early nineties, I have done research, as well as other types of work in the field of migration, with a particular focus on the constructions of home and belonging in the context of exile. This work has mainly taken place in Bosnia/Hercegovina, Denmark and Guatemala. Over the years, I have participated in several research projects thematically located at the intersection of migration, migration policies, home and belonging i.e., from a large Nordic project on the politics of temporality and identity in the nineties, to my most recent project on biometric border control and migration (See more).
My methodological toolbox is mainly equipped with ethnographic methods, a particular interest in sensory ethnography and a profound interest in engaging In- and understanding other worlds. I furthermore have a vivid interest in art as an alternative form of expression. In 2012, I co-coordinated the art project: “Sababas; The power of Art in Social Change” together with a Danish NGO, Danish and Ghanaian visual artists, filmmakers and musicians. Here Danish and Ghanaian artists joined up and created collaborative art products and alternative narratives about precarious lives in Ghana and Denmark. Being a part time musician, I have also communicated my research-based knowledge on migration through music and as such, I have both an academic and personal interest and experiences with the performing arts as an alternative means of communication.
Selected peer reviewed publications: Grünenberg, K, Møhl,P. Fog Olwig, K. and Simonsen, A.(2020) IDentities and identity. Biometric technologies, borders and migration. Grünenberg, K. and Møhl, P. (editors) Introduction to special issue. Ethnos, Journal of Anthropology. Grünenberg, K. (2014)'This bridge is just like the one in Višegrad!' : Dwelling, embodying and doing home across space in I: Jackson; E Jones, H., Rhys-Taylor, A. eds. Emotion and Location: Stories of cosmopolitan belonging, Routledge.
Tijana Mišković
Holds an MA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a PhD from The University of Copenhagen. Most recently, I worked as a curator and researcher at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. Previously, I was an independent curator, collaborating with venues such as Den Frie and Nikolaj Kunsthal, as well as internationally with El Centro de Desarrollo in Havana and The Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb. Mišković explores transcultural aspects of art, dynamically intertwining national, cultural, and generational boundaries.
Nadia Mansour
VIA University College, Denmark, was a postdoctoral researcher on the MaHoMe project in 2020 and 2021.
We would like to thank VIA University College for their support of the MaHoMe project from January 2020 to December 2022.