Sine Plambech

Sine Plambech

External Lecturer

Sine Plambech's research focuses on international migration, human trafficking, smuggling, border politics, refugees, women's migration, sexual violence, deportations, sex work, marriage migration, documentary film, and visual anthropology. Sine Plambech conducts fieldwork in migrant and border communities in Nigeria, Thailand, Italy and Denmark.

Sine Plambech is an awardwinning filmmaker and as part of her research she continously explores alternative forms of representation and research dissemination through creative writing, film and visual anthropology. In her upcoming film, she explores violence and everyday life among female migrants on Europe's Southern border.

Plambech is part of the ‘Gender, Justice and Neoliberal Transformations Research Network’ at Columbia University in New York. This transnational research team explores questions of gender and justice in the current geopolitical and economic moment. The team includes researchers working across sites ranging from New York City to Detroit, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Madrid, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

As a Visiting Professor at Yale University's Ethnicity, Race and Migration programme Sine Plambech is working on developing new research on migration, race, gender and border control in a comparative US-EU perspective.

In her forthcoming ethnographic book, Sine Plambech takes the reader on a global journey into the world of sex in the age of migration. Drawing on over 17 years of ethnographic research the book explores the contemporary transformations of labor, feminism, border politics through the prisms of sex, gender and migration.

Primary fields of research

Human trafficking, migration, migration crisis, smuggling, womens migration, sex work, modern slavery, undocumented migration, gender, deportations, care migration, documentary films, visual anthropology, humanitarianism, borders

Current research

Plambech heads the project "Women on the Move" with Open Society Foundations which engages with the contemporary ‘European migration crisis’ in relation to the urgent issue of women as refugees, migrants and trafficked. The project examines women's undocumented migration routes from West Africa to Europe, with fieldwork in Nigeria, North Africa and Sicily.

 

Previous Projects

In the project Women, Sex & Migration: Seeing Sex Work Migration and Human Trafficking from the Global South, Sine Plambech explored how sex work migration and human trafficking are practiced, perceived and have impacted two communities in Thailand's Isaan province and Nigeria’s Edo State where migration has become a familiar social phenomenon with many families having a female relative in Europe.

The project was awarded the Sapere Aude Elite Grant by the Danish Research Council.

MIGMA: Transnationalism from above and below: Migration management and how migrants manage (MIGMA) examined European attempts to return Nigerian migrants back to their home country.

Managing Migration: Risks and remittances among migrant Thai women

Women from Asia are increasingly traversing borders to marry men in the Western world. This project presented ethnographic research focused on Thai women married to Danish men. The films Fra Thailand til Thy and Heartbound are based on this research.

 

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers

    Plambech, Sine, 2017, In: Feminist Economics. 23, 3, p. 134-159

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Between "Victims" and "Criminals": Rescue, Deportation, and Everyday Violence Among Nigerian Migrants

    Plambech, Sine, 2014, In: Social Politics. 21, 3, p. 382-402 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published
  4. Accepted/In press

    Becky’s Journey

    Plambech, Sine, 2014, (Accepted/In press)

    Research output: Other contributionCommunication

  5. Published

    Udvid indsatsen mod menneskehandel

    Korsby, Trine Mygind, Plambech, Sine, Lisborg, A., Skvirskaja, Vera, Spanger, M. & Groes-Green, C., 8 Mar 2013, In: Politiken.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

  6. Published

    Victims of Trafficking Return Home to Great Expectations

    Plambech, Sine, 2013, ScienceNordic.com.

    Research output: Other contributionCommunication

  7. Published

    En skamplet på nationens ære

    Plambech, Sine, 13 Feb 2013, In: Udvikling. 1, p. 51-54 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

  8. Published

    Den danske samvittighed spøger i Afrika

    Plambech, Sine, 5 Sep 2012, In: Dagbladet Politiken.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

  9. Published

    Jo Doezema: Sex slaves and Discourse Masters - the construction of trafficking

    Plambech, Sine, 2011, In: Tidsskrift for kvinder, køn og forskning. 1, p. 65-67 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature review

  10. Published

    Ny handlingsplan mod menneskehandel vil fortælle succeshistorier

    Plambech, Sine, 24 Jun 2011

    Research output: Memorandum/expositionMemorandum

  11. Published

    Danmark deporterer handlede kvinder hjem til en uvis skæbne

    Plambech, Sine, 27 Jun 2011, In: Information.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

  12. Published

    Trafficking: Mission Kvindehandel

    Plambech, Sine & Lansade, J., 2010

    Research output: Non-textual formSound/Visual production (digital)Communication

  13. Published

    From Thailand With Love: Transnational Marriage in the Global Care Economy

    Plambech, Sine, 2010, Sex Trafficking, Human Rights and Social Justice. Zheng, T. (ed.). London & New York: RoutledgeFalmer, (Routledge Research in Human Rights; No. 4).

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

  14. Published
  15. Published

    From Thailand with Love: Transnational marriage migration in the global care economy

    Plambech, Sine, 2008, In: Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies. 5

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Fra Thy til Thailand: Ticket to Paradise

    Plambech, Sine & Metz, J., 2008

    Research output: Non-textual formSound/Visual production (digital)Communication

  17. Published

    Fra Thailand til Thy: Love on Delivery

    Plambech, Sine & Metz, J., 2008

    Research output: Non-textual formSound/Visual production (digital)Communication

  18. Published

    Usynlige og synlige: Thailandske kvinder i den europæiske sexindustri

    Plambech, Sine, 2007, In: Den Ny Verden - Tidsskrift for internationale studier. 40, 2

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Lykken er en datter i Danmark

    Plambech, Sine, 10 Jan 2007, In: Dagbladet Politiken.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

  20. Published

    "Postordrebrude" i Nordvestjylland: Transnationale ægteskaber i et omsorgsøkonomisk perspektiv

    Plambech, Sine, 2005, In: Dansk Sociologi. 16, 1, p. 92-110 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Ikke kun sexslaver

    Plambech, Sine, 26 Aug 2004, In: Dagbladet Politiken.

    Research output: Contribution to journalContribution to newspaper - Feature article

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