Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2012
  2. Published

    Børns socialitet: Fortolkning og forhandling af civiliseringsprojektet i børnehaven

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Civiliserende institutioner: Om idealer og distinktioner i opdragelse. Gilliam, L. & Gulløv, E. (eds.). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 97-118 22 p.

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

  3. Published

    Climate and Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences

    Hastrup, Kirsten & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 263 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  4. Published
  5. Published

    Introduction: Climate Change and Human Mobility

    Hastrup, Kirsten & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2012, Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences. Hastrup, K. & Olwig, K. F. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-22

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

  6. Published

    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/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 2011
  10. Published

    "Strangers" in the Nation

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Pærregaard, K., 2011, The Question of Integration: Immigration, Exclusion and the Danish Welfare State. Olwig, K. F. & Pærregaard, K. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 1-28 28 p.

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

  11. Published

    'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), Larsen, B. R. (ed.) & Rytter, M. (ed.), 2011, Routledge. 174 p. (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; No. 2, Vol. 37).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    'Integration': Migrants and Refugees between Scandinavian Welfare Societies and Family Relations.

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 37, 2, p. 179-196 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    A Wedding in the Family: Home Making in a Global Kin Network

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, Migration and Culture. Cohen, R. & Jónsson, G. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 602-615 14 p.

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

  14. Published

    Changes of Place: Interrogating the Continuities and Disjunctures of Movement

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Amit, V., 2011, In: Anthropologica. 53, p. 3-7 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Children's Sociality: The Civilizing Project in the Danish Kindergarten

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2011, In: Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 55, 2, p. 121-141 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Introduction: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Rytter, M., 2011, Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls: Family, Religion and Migration in a Global World. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 9-26 18 p. (Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, Vol. VII).

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

  17. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    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/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 2010
  23. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Commentary on "Community as 'Good to Think With'"

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, In: Anthropologica. 52, 2, p. 363-366 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Cosmopolitan traditions: Caribbean perspectives

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, In: Social Anthropology. 18, 4, p. 417-424 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. Published

    Cultural Marronage and the Development of St. Johnian Identity

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2010, Negotiating Enslavement: Perspectives on Slavery in the Danish West Indies. Highfield, A. R. & Tyson, G. F. (eds.). St. Croix: Antilles Press, p. 31-45 15 p.

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

  27. 2009
  28. Published

    A proper funeral: contextualising community among Caribbean migrants

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2009, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 15, 3, p. 520-37 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. 2008
  31. Published

    Anm. af :  Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson. 2006. Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2008, In: Caribbean Studies - San Juan. 36, 1, p. 146-150 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  32. Published

    Integration mellem forestillede og glemte fællesskaber: Tilfældet Danmark

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2008, In: Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 19, 4, p. 233-242 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. 2007
  34. Published

    Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, Durham and London: Duke University Press. 319 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Integration: Antropologiske perspektiver

    Pærregaard, K. & Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, København: Museum Tusculanum. 278 p. (Migration & integration, Vol. 1).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Integration: Antropologiske perspektiver

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Pærregaard, K., 2007, Integration: antropologiske perspektiver. Olwig, K. F. & Pærregaard, K. (eds.). København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 9-34 25 p. (Migration & integration, Vol. 1).

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

  37. Published

    Invited Commentary: Aisha Khan, "Good to Think?: Creolization, Optimism, and Agency"

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2007, In: Current Anthropology. 48, 5, p. 668-69 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearch

  38. Published

    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 journalLetterResearch

  39. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 2006
  43. Published

    Fællesskabets Begravelse? Oprindelse og forbundethed blandt caribiske migranter

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2006, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 50, p. 149-164

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  44. Published

    Growing up in the Caribbean: Individuality in the Making

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2006, Claiming Individuality: The Cultural Politics of Distinction. Amid, V. & Dyck, N. (eds.). London: Pluto Press, p. 51-65

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

  45. 2005
  46. Published

    Anm. af : Carnial and the formation of a Caribbean transnation by Philip W. Scher. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2005, In: Social Anthropology. 13, 1, p. 103-104

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  47. Published
  48. Published

    Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity

    Besson, J. (ed.) & Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.), 2005, Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. (Warwick University Caribbean studies).

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  49. Published

    Commentary to Heather Horst and Daniel Miller "From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica"

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2005, In: Current Anthropology. 46, 5, p. 769-70

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearch

  50. Published

    Introduction: Caribbean Narratives of Belonging

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Besson, J., 2005, Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-14

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

  51. Published

    Introduction: Knowing about Children: Anthropological Perspectives

    Olwig, Karen Fog & Gammeltoft, Tine, 2005, To make My Parents Happy: Anthropological Perspectives on Children in Vietnam. Fog Olwig, K. & Gammeltoft, T. (eds.). Hanoi: Statistical Publishing House, p. 5-58

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

  52. Published

    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/ReportBookResearch

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 2004
  58. Published
  59. Published

    Anm. af : India, Jonathan Xavier & Renato Rosaldo, red.: The Anthropology of Globalization. A reader

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2004, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10, 3, p. 722-23

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

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