Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig

Professor, emeritus


  1. Published

    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/ReportBookResearch

  2. Published

    Travelling Makes a Home: Mobility and identity among West Indians

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, Ideal Homes?: Social change and Domestic Life. London: Routledge, p. 73-83

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

  3. Published

    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. 1-19

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

  4. Published

    Toward a Reconceptualization of Migration and Transnationalism

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1997, Livelihood, Identity and Instability. Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research, p. 113-128

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

  5. Published

    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. 1-164

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

  6. Published

    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/ReportBookEducation

  7. Published

    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. 150-166

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

  8. Published

    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. 8-15

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

  9. Published

    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. 124-145

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

  10. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    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/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearch

  13. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    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. 275-289

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    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/ReportBookResearch

  17. Published

    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. 78-98

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

  18. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    The Mobile Middle Class

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1998, In: Anthropology Newsletter. November, p. 11-12

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  20. Published

    The Mobile Middle Class

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2000, Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Research Agenda. Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association, p. 90-91

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

  21. Published

    The End and Ends of Flight. Temporariness, Uncertainty and Meaning in Refugee Life

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2023, In: Ethnos. 88, 1, p. 52-68

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    The Burden of Heritage: Claiming a Place for a West Indian Culture

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1999, In: American Ethnologist. 26, 2, p. 370-388

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Published

    Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  50. Published

    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 proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

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