Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig

Professor, emeritus


  1. Published

    Narrating deglobalization: Danish perceptions of a lost empire

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2003, In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. 3(3), p. 207-222

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  2. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearch

  3. Published

    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. 189-205

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  4. Published

    Narratives of the children left behind

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 25, 2, p. 267-284

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    National and Local Identity in St. John: Danish and American Perspectives

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: Journal of Social Science. 6, 1 & 2, p. 59-79

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    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. 161-179

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  7. Published

    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. 142-160

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  8. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    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. 53-71

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  13. Published

    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. 87-102

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  14. Published

    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. 105-114

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  15. Published

    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. 200-219

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    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 journalLiterature reviewResearch

  19. Published

    Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Hastrup, Kirsten (ed.), 1997, London: Routledge. 319 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  20. Published

    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/ReportBookResearch

  21. Published

    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. 7-34

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  22. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearch

  23. Published

    Stedlige identiteter i en deterritorialiseret verden, et antropologisk perspektiv

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1994, In: Nord nytt - Nordisk tidsskrift for folkelivsforskning. 54, p. 13-20

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  24. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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