Marie Sandberg

Associate Professor - Promotion Programme

SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
Denmark
- sandberg@hum.ku.dk
- https://www.saxo.ku.dk
- http://www.saxo.ku.dk
Phone: +4551299017

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

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, 2021, In: Journal of Borderlands Studies. 37, 2, p. 415-423 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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
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 › peer-review
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
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
Published
Guest Editorial: Cultural Analysis as Intervention
Jespersen, Astrid Pernille, Petersen, M. K., 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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 › peer-review
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 › peer-review
Published
The Ambivalence of Gender
Sandberg, Marie, 2008, In: Ethnologia Scandinavica. 38
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
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
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
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
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 › peer-review
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
Ethnologia Europaea (Journal)
Sandberg, Marie (Editor)
2013 → …
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
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
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
"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
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
17th Nordic Migration Research Conference
Sandberg, Marie (Participant)
13 Aug 2014
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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
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
33 Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference
Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)
19 Aug 2015
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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
Central European Days
Sandberg, Marie (Organizer)
19 Mar 2015 → 20 Mar 2015
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
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
Den Gode Uddannelse 2011: Projekt: Arbejdsmigration i Europa
Sandberg, Marie (Participant)
2011 → …
Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other
Forschungskolloquium Universität Wien
Sandberg, Marie (Other)
7 Apr 2011
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Nordic Migration Research, Vice-Chair (External organisation)
Sandberg, Marie (Member)
2014 → 2016
Activity: Membership types › Membership in research network
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
Relocating Borders
Sandberg, Marie (Participant)
10 Jan 2013 → 13 Jan 2013
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Science Studies (Journal)
Sandberg, Marie (Editor)
1 May 2012
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
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
Ethnologia Europaea (Journal)
Sandberg, Marie (Editor)
2014
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Research journal › Research
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION: DISCIPLINARY IMPACTS
Sandberg, Marie (Speaker)
29 Jan 2015 → 30 Jan 2015
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Border Multiple (Journal)
Sandberg, Marie (Editor)
1 Nov 2010 → 1 Jun 2012
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of Series › Research
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
Østeuropæere er det nye proletariat
Sandberg, Marie (Participant)
13 Mar 2014
Activity: Other activity types › Other (prizes, external teaching and other activities) - Other
Good Intentions. Researching volunteerism without humanitarianism.
Sandberg, Marie (Other)
15 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
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
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

Erasmus mobilitetsstipendium 2011
Sandberg, Marie (Recipient), Apr 2011
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions

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Guest Editorial: Cultural Analysis as Intervention
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Published
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Af lyst eller nød. En etnologisk undersøgelse af integration mellem forskning og undervisning i praksis
Research output: Book/Report › Report
Published
104 downloads
Between social dumping and social protection. The challenge of creating ’orderly working conditions’ among Polish circular migrants in the Copenhagen area, Denmark.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Published