Karen Fog Olwig
Professor, emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 København K
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Invited commentary: Nigel Rapport, "An Outline for Cosmopolitan Study: Reclaiming the Human through Introspection."
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, In: Current Anthropology. 48, 2, p. 273-74 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research
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Islands as Places of Being and Belonging
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, In: Geographical Review. 97, 2, p. 260-273 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Issue Introduction: IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration
Grünenberg, Kristina, Møhl, P., Olwig, Karen Fog & Simonsen, Anja, 2022, In: Ethnos. 87, 2, p. 211-222 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Komme dit rige? Respektabel metodisme og afro-caribisk kulturel identitet
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1991, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 23, p. 5-17Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Komplekse liv: Kulturel mangfoldighed i Danmark
Liep, J. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 1994, København: Akademisk Forlag. 182 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Kontinuitet og Forandring
Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Mogensen, H. O. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 33-36 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Kulturel kompleksitet
Olwig, Karen Fog & Liep, J., 1994, Komplekse liv: Kulturel mangfoldighed i Danmark. København: Akademisk Forlag, p. 7-21Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Kulturel kompleksitet
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1992, In: Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Revy. 27, 3, p. 89-95Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Landscape, justice and the quality of life in emblematically embodied nation/states: the case of Denmark
Olwig, K. R. & Olwig, Karen Fog, 18 Apr 2021, In: Landscape Research. 47, 6, p. 811-828Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Les déplacements: questions de continuités et de ruptures dans le mouvement
Olwig, Karen Fog & Amit, V., 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, p. 9-14 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Local and National Approaches to Nature Preservation: The US Virgin Islands National Park on St John and Beyond
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2009, In: Landscape Research. 34, 2, p. 189-204 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Local and Transnational Care Relations: Relatedness and Family Practice among Au Pairs in Denmark
Dalgas, K. M. & Olwig, Karen Fog, Oct 2015, In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 15, 4, p. 469-484 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Lokale liv, fjerne forbindelser: Studier af børn, unge og migration
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Valentin, K. (ed.), 2005, København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Migrating for a Profession: Becoming a Caribbean nurse in post-WWII Britain
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 22, 3, p. 258-272 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Migration and Care: Intimately Related Aspects of Caribbean Family and Kinship
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life. Baldassar, L. & Merla, L. (eds.). Routledge, p. 133-148 16 p. (Routledge Research in Transnationalism, Vol. 29).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Migration as Adventure: Narrative Self-representation among Caribbean Migrants in Denmark
Olwig, Karen Fog, Jan 2018, In: Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology. 83, 1, p. 156-171 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Migration, Family and the Welfare State: Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), Larsen, B. R. (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2012, Milton Park: Routledge. 174 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Migrationsnarrativer: Fortællinger om den gode slægtning blandt vestindiske kvinder
Olwig, Karen Fog, Dec 2010, In: Kulturstudier. 2, December, p. 119-139 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2011, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 259 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Mobile Livelihoods: Making a living in the world
Olwig, Karen Fog & Sørensen, N. N., 2002, Work and Migration: Life and livelihoods in a globalizing world. London: Routledge, p. 1-19Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Mobilitet og tilknytning: Migrantliv i et globaliseret Danmark
Valentin, K. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2015, Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 227 p. (Antropologiske Studier; No. 3).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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Mobility, Education and Life Trajectories: New and old migratory pathways
Valentin, K. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2017, Abingdon: Routledge. 130 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Mobility, education and life trajectories: new and old migratory pathways
Olwig, Karen Fog & Valentin, K., 2015, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 22, 3, p. 247-257 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Mouth Swabs and Other Techniques of Verification: Determining Refugees’ Rights to a Family Life
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2019, The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move. Olwig, K. F., Grünenberg, K., Møhl, P. & Simonsen, A. (eds.). London, New York: Routledge, (Routledge Studies in Anthropology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Moving Memories and Memories of Moves: Some Afterthoughts
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past. Palmberger, M. & Tosic, J. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 271-285 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Narrating deglobalization: Danish perceptions of a lost empire
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2003, In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 3(3), p. 207-222Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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Narratives of Belonging: Life Stories in Family Networks of West Indian Background
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, Narrating Mobility, Borndaries and Belonging. København, p. 27-48 (Working paper; No. 7, Vol. 99).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Narratives of Home: Visions of 'betterment' and belonging in a dispersed Carribbean family
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2005, Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity. Besson, J. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 189-205Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Narratives of the children left behind
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 25, 2, p. 267-284Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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National and Local Identity in St. John: Danish and American Perspectives
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: Journal of Social Science. 6, 1 & 2, p. 59-79Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Netværk: Transnational migration og social sammenhæng
Olwig, Karen Fog & Pærregaard, K., 2004, Viden om verden: En grundbog i antropologisk analyse. Hastrup, K. (ed.). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 161-179Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network: West Indian migration to New York
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2001, Islands in the City: West Indian migration to New York. Foner, N. (ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 142-160Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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New neighbours in a time of change: local pragmatics and the perception of asylum centres in rural Denmark
Whyte, Zachary, Larsen, B. R. & Olwig, Karen Fog, 18 Aug 2019, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 45, 11, p. 1953-1969 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Notions and practices of difference: an epilogue on the ethnography of diversity
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. 20, 4, p. 471-79 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Nærvær og Distance
Mogensen, Hanne Overgaard & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, Familie og Slægtskab: Antropologiske Perspektiver. Mogensen, H. O. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Samfundslitteratur, p. 93-95 3 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Pacing Mobilized
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2020, Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements. Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds.). New York: Berghahn Books, p. 181-190 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Place, movement and identity: Processes of inclusion and exclusion in a 'Caribbean' Family
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2004, Diaspora, Identity and Religion: New Directions in theory and research. London: Routledge, p. 53-71Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, Going First Class?: New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement. Amit, V. (ed.). New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, p. 87-102Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Privilegier og rettigheder som slave og fri - emanicipationen på St. Jan
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2001, Fra slaveri til frihed: Det dansk-vestindiske slavesamfund 1672-1848. Nielsen, P. (ed.). København: Nationalmuseet, p. 105-114Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Report chapter › Research
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Producing "Good" Families and Citizens in Danish Child Care Institutions
Bundgaard, Helle & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2018, Reconnecting State and Kinship. Thelen, T. & Alber, E. (eds.). University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 200-219Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Return Migrants’ Experience of Access to Care in Corrupt Healthcare Systems: The Bosnian Example
Handlos, L. N., Olwig, Karen Fog, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian & Nørredam, Marie Louise, 19 Sep 2016, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13, 9, p. 1-12 12 p., 924.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Return Migration among Elderly, Chronically Ill Bosnian Refugees: Does Health Matter?
Handlos, L. N., Olwig, Karen Fog, Bygbjerg, Ib Christian, Kristiansen, Maria & Nørredam, Marie Louise, 12 Oct 2015, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 12, 10, p. 12643-12661 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Review of Sandra Wallman, The Capability of Places: Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change. London: Pluto Press, 2011
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2013, In: Critique of Anthropology. 33, 2, p. 239-240 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research
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Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Hastrup, Kirsten (ed.), 1997, London: Routledge. 319 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 1995, London: Frank Cass Publishers. 200 p. (Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Små og store fortællinger: Børn og unge i migrationsforskningen
Olwig, Karen Fog, Gilliam, L. & Valentin, K., 2005, Lokale liv, fjerne forbindelser: Studier af børn, unge og migration. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 7-34Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Stedet som kulturel konstruktion: Vestindiske og danske perspektiver
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1997, Det nasjonale i det lokale, det lokale i det nasjonale. Slettan, D. & Stugu, O. S. (eds.). Oslo: Norges Forskningsråd, p. 83-99 (KULTs skriftserie; No. 92).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Stedlige identiteter i en deterritorialiseret verden, et antropologisk perspektiv
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1994, In: Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. 54, p. 13-20Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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The 'successful' return: Caribbean narratives of migration, family, and gender
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 18, 4, p. 828-845 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The African "Other" as Displaced Enslaved and Refugee: Internal Borders across Time and Place
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2023, In: Journal of Refugee Studies. 36, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Burden of Heritage: Claiming a Place for a West Indian Culture
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: American Ethnologist. 26, 2, p. 370-388Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Care Chain, Children's Mobility and the Caribbean Migration Tradition
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 38, 6, p. 933-952 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The End and Ends of Flight. Temporariness, Uncertainty and Meaning in Refugee Life
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2023, In: Ethnos. 88, 1, p. 52-68Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Mobile Middle Class
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1998, In: Anthropology Newsletter. November, p. 11-12Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
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The Mobile Middle Class
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2000, Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Research Agenda. Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association, p. 90-91Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Report chapter › Research
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The Moral Landscape of Caribbean Migration
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World. Rytter, M. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 75-94 20 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The Not-yet-civilised: Negotiating the Kindergarten’s Civilising Project
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families. Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 78-98Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The Question of Integration: Immigration, Exclusion and the Danish Welfare State
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Pærregaard, K. (ed.), 2011, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 294 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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The Right to a Family Life and the Biometric 'Truth' of Family Reunification: Somali Refugees in Denmark
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2022, In: Ethnos. 87, 2, p. 275-289Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Social Construction of Improvement: Continuity and Change in Caribbean Migrants' Life Stories
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, 1, p. 41-51 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Timescape of Post-WWII Caribbean Migration to Britain: Historical Heterogeneity as Challenge and Opportunity
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2018, Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces. Gardiner Barber, P. & Lem, W. (eds.). Cham, Schweiz: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 43-61 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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The White Woman's Cause
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1994, Kvinder i andre kulturer - feminismens "anden". København, p. 35-39 (Samkvind Skriftserie, Vol. 14).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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The biometric border world: technologies, bodies and identities on the move
Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), Grünenberg, Kristina (ed.), Møhl, P. (ed.) & Simonsen, Anja (ed.), 2019, London & New York: Routledge. 250 p. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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The duplicity of diversity: Caribbean immigrants in Denmark
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2015, In: Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38, 7, p. 1104-1119 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The ethnogrqaphic field revisited: Towards a study of common and not so common fields of belonging
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2002, Realizing Community: Concepts, social relationships and sentiments. London: Routledge, p. 124-145Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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The global fields of mobility, flows and networks
Olwig, Karen Fog & Agergaard, Jytte, 2007, Migration: Movement of People and the Development of Societies. Olwig, K. F. (ed.). University of Copenhagen, June 2007, Vol. Temapakke 8. p. 8-15Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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The migration experience: Nevisian women at home & abroad
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1993, Women & Change in the Caribbean: A pan-Caribbean perspective. Momsen, J. (ed.). London: James Currey, p. 150-166Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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To Make my Parents Happy: Anthropological Perspectives on Children in Vietnam
Gammeltoft, Tine (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam: Statistical Publishing House.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Education
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To make My Parents Happy
Gammeltoft, Tine & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2005, Anthropological Perspectives on Children in Vietnam. Gammeltoft, T. & Fog Olwig, K. (eds.). Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House, p. 1-164Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Report chapter › Research
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Toward a Reconceptualization of Migration and Transnationalism
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1997, Livelihood, Identity and Instability. Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research, p. 113-128Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Toward an anthropology of children and place
Olwig, Karen Fog, 2003, Children's place: Cross-cultural perspectives. Olwig, K. F. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 1-19Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Travelling Makes a Home: Mobility and identity among West Indians
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, Ideal Homes?: Social change and Domestic Life. London: Routledge, p. 73-83Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
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Work and Migration: Life and livelihoods in a globalizing world
Sørensen, N. N. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2002, London: Routledge. 229 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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