Karen Fog Olwig

Karen Fog Olwig

Professor, emeritus


  1. Published

    Female immigration and the ambivalence of dirty care work: Caribbean nurses in imperial Britain

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2018, In: Ethnography. 19, 1, p. 44-62 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Published

    Hacia una reconceptualizacion de la migracion y transnacionalizacion

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1997, In: Estudios Sociales. 30, 109, p. 53-75

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  5. 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

  6. Published

    "Migrant Women's Voices. Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945" by Linda McDowell. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2017, In: International Migration Review. 51, 1, p. e13-e14 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewCommunication

  7. Published

    Det etnografiske feltarbejde: Antropologers arbejdsmark eller faglig slagmark?

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2002, In: Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. 13, 3, p. 111-123 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Foreword

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2016, Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits, Jamaica, by Jean Besson. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, p. xvii-xx

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

  9. 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

  10. Published

    Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1993, Reading: Harwood Academic Publishers. 239 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Published

    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. 1-19

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

  15. Published

    Constructing Lives: Migration Narratives and Life Stories among Nevisians

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1998, Caribbean migration: Globalised identities. Chamberlain, M. (ed.). London: Routledge, p. 63-80

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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Published

    Contesting Homes: Home-Making and the Making of Anthropology

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1998, Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World in Movement. Rapport, N. & Dawson, A. (eds.). Oxford: Berg, p. 225-36

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

  19. Published
  20. 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

  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

    From Local Community Studies to Migration Research or: When Does Caribbean(ist) Anthropology Cease to be Caribbean?

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2022, In: The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 27, 3, p. 437-440

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Published

    Anm. af : Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2000, In: Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science. 17, 1, p. 176-179

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. Published

    Comments

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2002, In: Current Anthropology. 43, 1, p. 145-146

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearch

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. Published

    Children's places of belonging in immigrant families of Caribbean background

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2003, Children's places: Cross-cultural perspectives. London: Routledge, p. 205-217

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

  36. Published

    "Transnational" Socio-Cultural Systems and Ethnographic Research. Views from an Extended Field Site

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 2003, In: International Migration Review. 37, 3, p. 692-716

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  37. Published

    Children's Places: Cross-cultural perspectives

    Olwig, Karen Fog (ed.) & Gulløv, E. (ed.), 2003, London: Routledge. 255 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearch

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. Published

    Kulturel kompleksitet

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1992, In: Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Revy. 27, 3, p. 89-95

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. Published
  48. Published

    Komme dit rige? Respektabel metodisme og afro-caribisk kulturel identitet

    Olwig, Karen Fog, 1991, In: Tidsskriftet Antropologi. 23, p. 5-17

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  49. Published

    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 journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  50. 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

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