Katrine Syppli Kohl

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Current research

The Boundary Work Project investigates new interfaces between refugees, civil society, and municipal caseworkers in a self-reliance and repatriation context. The project is carried out in close collaboration with UC Absalon, the Danish Red Cross, and the Danish Refugee Council. 

Primary fields of research

Welfare state encounters between frontline workers and vulnerable individuals. The government of refugees and asylum seekers in Denmark, including in asylum centres and in departure centres. The selection of refugees for third country resettlement in Denmark. 

Teaching

The government of refugees and asylum seekers, selection of refugees for resettlement in Denmark, activion of asylum seekers in danish asylum centres, migrationsstyring, Foucault, Goffman, qualitative studies of system/client interaction.

Fields of interest

problems and strategies of of government- and management, migration, religion, refugees, minorities, ethnicity, nationalism, integration, the selection of refugees for resettlement in Denmark, migration management. Foucault, Goffman. Qualitative research in the field of system/client encounters.