Marie Sandberg

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Marie Sandberg is director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), www.amis.ku.dk and the President of The International Society for Ethnology and Foklore (SIEF), https://www.siefhome.org

Research projects

“Boundary Work - New interfaces between state and civil society: Volunteerism and refugees in a self-support and repatriation context research network” (Role: PI), a collaboration with DRC Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross, and University College Absalon. Funded by the VELUX Foundations 2021-2024.

Helping Hands. Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens (role: PI) (DFF bevilling – 6107-00111)

DIGINAUTS - Migrants' Digital Practices in/of the European Border Regime. Financially supported by the Velux Foundation. Project period: 1.3.2018-1.8.2020 (Role: Co-PI), http://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/projects/diginauts/

Research profile

Marie Sandberg’s research focuses on ethnographies on border practices and experiences of borders in everyday life Europe. A general theme in Marie’s work is the study of Europe as a historically burdened and paradoxical ground for creating unity along with diversity. This point of tension is scrutinized through the lens of Europe’s interchangeable borders, from the EU free mobility regime to ongoing rebordering processes. Her main research themes are everyday europeanisation, border and migration practices, and the European border regime. Whether it concerns her research on everyday border practices across the German-Polish border (Sandberg 2009, 2012, 2016), Polish construction workers commuting to Denmark, (Sandberg 2012, 2015, 2016), refugee welcome networks in Northern European locales (Sandberg 2020), or refugees’ digital practices when navigating the European border regime (Sandberg and Mollerup forthcoming), they all serve as ethnographic entrances into studying the ongoing reconfigurations of the European border regime. Her research on everyday europeanisation ‘from below’ is deeply entangled with structural and political framings ‘from above’. As a result, research on such everyday europeanisation practices in ethnographic detail can contribute with new understandings of the continuous reconfigurations of Europe and what ‘European’ can mean.

Marie Sandberg has authored and co-authored several research publications in international renowned peer-reviewed journals (such as Identities, Nordic Journal for Migration Research, Ethnologia Europaea, Journal of Borderland Studies), co-edited volumes, special issues and book seriesAmong her publications is the book The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-scaling Europe (edited together with Dorte J. Andersen & Martin Klatt, 2012, Ashgate Border Regions Series).

Marie Sandberg earned her PhD 2009 at the University of Copenhagen, Ethnology, with the thesis The Present/Absent Border. Europeanisation Processes in a Twin Town on the German-Polish Border. Based on ethnographic fieldwork the thesis depicts how young German and Polish high-school pupils experience living in a European cross-border region.

Since 2003 Marie Sandberg has been teaching courses in Ethnology and of the Master of Applied Cultural Analysis programme on ethnographic methodologies and cultural analytical approaches at the University of Copenhagen. 

Marie Sandberg was joint editor-in-chief with Prof. Prof. Monique Scheer of Ethnologia Europaea - Journal of European Ethnology, 2013-2020.

From 2017-2020 she was evaluating and assessing research applications for The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), Sweden (Assessment group B4: Anthropology, Archaeology, Ethnology, History, Religion and Philosophy).

Further, she is a member of IMISCOE board of directors, from 2018-2020 a board member of The International Society of Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) and Erasmus coordinator of Ethnology, Saxo Institute, UCPH.

Current research

“Boundary Work - New interfaces between state and civil society: Volunteerism and refugees in a self-support and repatriation context research network” (PI), a collaboration with DRC Danish Refugee Council, Danish Red Cross, and University College Absalon. Funded by the VELUX Foundations 2021-2024.

DIGINAUTS - Migrants' Digital Practices in/of the European Border Regime. Financially supported by the Velux Foundation. Project period: 2018-2020 (co-PI). http://www.en.cgs.aau.dk/research/projects/diginauts/

Helping Hands. Research Network on the Everyday Border Work of European Citizens (DFF bevilling – 6107-00111) (PI).

Circular migration in Europe.

Selected publications

1. Published

   How to Hatch the Wings of a Mockingbird: A Comment on the EU’s New Migration and Asylum Pact and the Risk of Destroying Civil Society Engagement in Refugee Relief Work Internally to the EU Memberstates

   Andersen, D. & Sandberg, Marie, 13 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Borderlands Studies.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   “Dearest Little Wife”. The Gender Work of Polish Transnational Families in Past and Present

   Sandberg, Marie, 2018, In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 8, 4, p. 221-228 8 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   'EUROP' House of European History - mellem paneuropæisk og postnational erindringspraksis

   Sandberg, Marie & Riegels Melchior, Marie, 10 Jul 2018, In: Kulturstudier. 8, 1, p. 140-166 26 p., 6.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Af lyst eller nød. En etnologisk undersøgelse af integration mellem forskning og undervisning i praksis

   Damsholt, Tine & Sandberg, Marie, 5 Sep 2018, Københavns Universitet. 184 p.

   Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research

5. Published

   Kultur som praksis. Etnologiske perspektiver på individualitet og fællesskab, kultur og historie.

   Christensen, S., Jespersen, Astrid Pernille, Mellemgaard, Signe & Sandberg, Marie, 10 Aug 2017, København: Hans Reitzels Forlag. 202 p.

   Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   Fællesskaber i kulturvidenskabeligt perspektiv

   Sandberg, Marie, Christensen, S. & Jespersen, Astrid Pernille, 10 Aug 2017, Kultur som praksis: Etnologiske perspektiver på individualitet og fællesskab, kultur og historie. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 67-102 35 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

7. Published

   Inverting the Telescope on Borders that Matter: Conversations in Café Europa

   Andersen, D. J., Kramsch, O. T. & Sandberg, Marie, 2015, In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies (Print Edition). p. 459-476 17 p., Volume 23, Issue 4.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

8. Published

   Restructuring locality: practice, identity and place-making on the German-Polish border: Special issue ed. by Nina Glick Schiller and Garbi Schmidt

   Sandberg, Marie, 15 Mar 2016, In: Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power. Volume 23, issue 1, p. pages 66-83 16 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

9. Published

   Doing Borderwork in Workplaces: Circular Migration From Poland to Denmark and the Netherlands

   Sandberg, Marie & Pijpers, R., 14 Aug 2015, Mobility and Migration Choices: Thresholds to Crossing Borders. van der Velde, M. & van Naerssen, T. (eds.). Surrey: Ashgate, p. 185-198 13 p. (Border Regions Series).

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

10. Published

    Between social dumping and social protection. The challenge of creating ’orderly working conditions’ among Polish circular migrants in the Copenhagen area, Denmark.

    Nielsen, Niels Jul & Sandberg, Marie, 20 Jun 2014, In: Ethnologia Europaea: Journal for European Ethnology. 44, 1, p. 23-37

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

11. Published

    Mellemværende: Solidaritetsarbejdets skæringspunkter i frivillig flygtningehjælp

    Andersen, D. J., Aparna, K. & Sandberg, Marie, 5 Apr 2019, In: Social Kritik:Tidsskrift for social analyse & debat. 31, 157, p. 4-10 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

12. Published

    The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Rescaling Europe

    Andersen, D. J. (ed.), Klatt, M. (ed.) & Sandberg, Marie (ed.), 1 Sep 2012, Ashgate. 257 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

13. Published

    Guest Editorial: Cultural Analysis as Intervention

    Jespersen, Astrid Pernille, Petersen, Morten Krogh, Ren, C. B. & Sandberg, Marie, 1 May 2012, In: Science Studies. 25, 1, p. 3-12 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

14. Published

    Karol's Kingdom: Commentary for Imagined Families in Mobile Worlds

    Sandberg, Marie, 31 Dec 2012, In: Ethnologia Europaea: Journal for European Ethnology. 42, 2, p. 87-93 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › Research › peer-review

15. Published

    Ethnologia Europaea Revisited: Launching Future Ethnologies. An Introduction

    Sandberg, Marie, 2014, In: Ethnologia Europaea. Journal of European Ethnology. 44, 2, p. 5-16 12 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

16. Published

    Book Review: Nordic Seniors on the Move. Mobility and Migration in Later Life’ by: Anne Leonora Blaakilde and Gabriella Nilsson (Eds.) Published 2013 by Department of Studies in Arts and Cultural Studies, Lund University Box 192, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden, 228pp ISBN 978-91-981458-0-9

    Sandberg, Marie, 1 Jul 2014, In: International Journal for Migration and Border Studies. 1, No. 2, p. 247-251

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

17. Published

    Migrationens tidsalder: Nyt forskningscenter skal sætte fokus på migration som mulighed og udfordring i det 21. århundrede

    Gammeltoft, P., Gregersen, Frans, Holtug, Nils, Lausten, Pia Schwarz, Michelsen, Anders Ib, Sandberg, Marie & Warburg, Margit, 2013, In: Universitetsavisen. 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication

18. Published

    Introduction: The Border Multiple

    Andersen, D. J. & Sandberg, Marie, 1 Sep 2012, The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Rescaling Europe. Ashgate

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

19. Published

    BorderOrderings: The Co-Existence of Border Focusing and Letting Border Issues take the Back Seat at the German-Polish Border

    Sandberg, Marie, 2012, The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders Between Public Policy and Everyday Life in A Rescaling Europe. Jagodic Andersen, D., Klatt, M. & Sandberg, M. (eds.). Ashgate, (Ashgate Border Region Series).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

20. Published

    Enhed i mangfoldighed. EU's forsøg på at afpolitisere folkekulturen og civilisationsbegrebet

    Sandberg, Marie & Andersen, D., 2010, Kulturelle Processer i Europa. Jespersen, A., Otto, L. & Hemmersam, F. (eds.). København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 225-236 11 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

21. Published

    Grænsens nærvær og fravær. Europæiseringsprocesser i en tvillingeby på den polsk-tyske grænse

    Sandberg, Marie, 2009, Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet. 259 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research

22. Published

    'Performing the Border. Cartographic Enactment of the German-Polish border among German and Polish High School Pupils'. In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 2009

    Sandberg, Marie, 2009, In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 18, p. 107-128 32 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

23. Published

    Constructing EuroMan. The Enactment of Regional Identity-formation in the European Integration Process

    Sandberg, Marie & Andersen, D., 2008, In: Ethnologia Scandinavica. 38, p. 39-60 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

24. Published

    The Ambivalence of Gender

    Sandberg, Marie, 2008, In: Ethnologia Scandinavica. 38

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

25. Published

    Memory and Borders in Europe: - a Comparative  Field-Work based Preject.

    Otto, L. & Sandberg, Marie, 2008. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Research

26. Published

    Viljen til Europa - Europas vilje? Kultur, ånd og værdier i EU efter Murens fald

    Rasmussen, H. & Sandberg, Marie, 2007, Velfærdssamfund: - velfærdsstaters forsvarform?. Højrup, T. & Bolving, K. (eds.). 1 ed. København: Museum Tusculanum, Vol. 8. p. 247-284 37 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

27. Published

    Verden over - en introduktion til stats- og livsformsteorien

    Jespersen, Astrid Pernille, Sandberg, Marie & Melchior, M. R., 2006, Verden over - en introduktion til stats- og livsformsteorien og dens aktuelle anvendelse i etnologien. København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 9-48

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

28. Published

    Verden over: En introduktion til stats- og livsformsteorien og dens aktuelle anvendelse i etnologien

    Riegels Melchior, Marie (ed.), Jespersen, Astrid Pernille (ed.) & Sandberg, Marie (ed.), 2006, Museum Tusculanum.

    Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

29. Published

    Hvad er et udgangspunkt? - et kritisk interview med Thomas Højrup om videnskabssyn, værksteder og om hvordan en teori kan rystes

    Jespersen, Astrid Pernille & Sandberg, Marie, 2006, Verden over - en introduktion til stats- og livsformsteorien og dens aktuelle anvendelse i etnologien. København: Museum Tusculanum, p. 261-310

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

30. Published

    Erindring og glemsel i det post-socialistiske Polen

    Otto, L. & Sandberg, Marie, 2004, In: Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Revy. 1, p. 10

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

31. Published

    Moving the Border. The Everyday Border Work In/Of The European Border Regime

    Sandberg, Marie, 2018, Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie: Dänemark. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, p. 49-58 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Selected activities

1. Keynote: Ethnography et al.: Doing situated collaborative research on informal networks working in support of refugees coming to Europe. Keynote held at the Ethnography with a twist conference, University of Jyväskylä 12th-14th February 2019

   Sandberg, Marie (Other)

   12 Feb 2019

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

2. Invited talk: The Everyday Border Work of European Citizens. Informal Volunteer Networks in Support of Refugees Coming to Europe. Invited talk at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria

   Sandberg, Marie (Other)

   10 Apr 2018

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

3. Co-Keynote: Broen ǀǀ Bron: The Öresund Region redux: Co-Keynote/ Tom O’Dell, Fredrik Nilsson (University of Lund), Marie Sandberg and Mark Vacher (University of Copenhagen):

   Sandberg, Marie (Lecturer)

   21 Aug 2015

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

4. Stockholm: Niels Jul NIelsen & Marie Sandberg: Between social dumping and social protection.: The challenge and re-negotiation of creating ‘orderly working conditions’ among Polish circular migrants in the Copenhagen area, Denmark.

   Sandberg, Marie (Lecturer)

   7 Nov 2013

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

5. Warsaw: Dull, Dirty and Dangerous?: The Borderwork of Polish Circular Migrants and the Transformation of Work-Places in Denmark

   Sandberg, Marie (Lecturer)

   17 Apr 2013

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

6. Ethnologia Europaea (Journal)

   Sandberg, Marie (Editor)

   2013 → …

   Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research

7. Keynote Bergen: Mobility Across Borders: An Ethnographic Study of BorderWork amongst Polish Circular Migrants

   Sandberg, Marie (Lecturer)

   19 Jun 2012

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

8. Visiting fellow Nijmegen Centre for Border Research: Radboud University

   Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

   1 May 2012 → 1 Aug 2012

   Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Period visiting other institutions

9. "Kultur, ånd og værdier i EU": Kronik, Universitetsavisen

   Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

   27 Apr 2007

   Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other

10. 17th Nordic Migration Research Conference

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    13 Aug 2014 → 15 Aug 2014

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

11. 17th Nordic Migration Research Conference

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    13 Aug 2014

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

12. 17th Nordic Migration Research Conference

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    13 Aug 2014 → 15 Aug 2014

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

13. 33 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference

    Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)

    19 Aug 2015 → 21 Aug 2015

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

14. 33 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference

    Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)

    19 Aug 2015

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

15. Authors meet Commentators Session: The Border Multiple

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    21 May 2012

    Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other

16. Central European Days

    Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)

    19 Mar 2015 → 20 Mar 2015

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

17. Conference participation: DASTS 2011 : Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    9 Jun 2011

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

18. Den Gode Uddannelse 2011: Projekt: Arbejdsmigration i Europa

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    2011 → …

    Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other

19. Forschungskolloquium Universität Wien

    Sandberg, Marie (Other)

    7 Apr 2011

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

20. Nordic Migration Research, Vice-Chair (External organisation)

    Sandberg, Marie (Member)

    2014 → 2016

    Activity: Membership types › Membership in research network

21. Rejsestipendium 2012: Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat for Yngre Videnskabsmænd- og Kvinder

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    May 2012 → Jul 2012

    Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Prizes, scholarships, distinctions

22. Relocating Borders

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    10 Jan 2013 → 13 Jan 2013

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

23. Science Studies (Journal)

    Sandberg, Marie (Editor)

    1 May 2012

    Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research

24. Science Studies special issue on 'Cultural Analysis as Intervention' (Journal)

    Sandberg, Marie (Editor)

    2010 → 2012

    Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research

25. Ethnologia Europaea (Journal)

    Sandberg, Marie (Editor)

    2014

    Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research

26. TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION: DISCIPLINARY IMPACTS

    Sandberg, Marie (Speaker)

    29 Jan 2015 → 30 Jan 2015

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

27. The Border Multiple (Journal)

    Sandberg, Marie (Editor)

    1 Nov 2010 → 1 Jun 2012

    Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Series › Research

28. Visions of Europe in the Eurovision Song Contest

    Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)

    5 May 2014 → 7 May 2014

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

29. Østeuropæere er det nye proletariat

    Sandberg, Marie (Participant)

    13 Mar 2014

    Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other

30. Good Intentions. Researching volunteerism without humanitarianism.

    Sandberg, Marie (Other)

    15 Apr 2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

31. Europe Trouble: Welcome Culture and the Disruption of the European Border Regime

    Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)

    12 Jun 2019

    Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference

32. Nationale repræsentationer – europæiske narrativer: En analyse af House of European History – et museum mellem paneuropæisk og postnational erindringspraksis. Foredrag afholdt i det Svenske Litteraturselskab, Helsingfors.

    Sandberg, Marie (Other)

    12 Oct 2017 → 13 Oct 2017

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

Selected prizes

1. Erasmus mobilitetsstipendium 2011

   Sandberg, Marie (Recipient), Apr 2011

   Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions