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Marry-Anne Karlsen has a background in human geography and social anthropology. She was for her project Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation (ASYKNOW).

Her research interests also cover the interplay between migration law, the welfare state, and border politics. Her book was published as an open access monograph on Routledge (2021).

Karlsen headed a work package for the RCN-funded project, which investigated the increased use of temporary terms of asylum for people with a recognized need for protection in Norway, Denmark, Germany, and the UK. The project was a collaboration between legal scholars and ethnographers. Karlsen co-edit with Jessica Schultz the living web resource .

Karlsen was also part of the EU-funded project As part of this project, she has conducted fieldwork in Cádiz, Spain on the field level governance of migration and refugee protection.

From 2016-2020, Karlsen worked as a postdoctoral fellow on the RCN-funded project . Here she uses temporality as an analytical lens to examine power relations and experiences related to irregularized migration. Together with Christine Jacobsen and Shahram Khosravi, she co-edited the volume , which provides theoretical and empirical nuance to the concept of waiting in migration research. The volume, published on Routledge (2021), is open access, and can be freely downloaded.

Karlsen is a board member of (International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit Bergen), which she previously led (2018-2021).She is also a former board member of and the

2023

(The right to a family life is a human right. Norway is denying refugees this right) Opinion piece in Norwegian daily VÃ¥rt Land, 20.04.2023 (behind paywall, the piece was also published in the paper version 21.04.23)

2022

. Article in Forskerforum about the ERC Starting Grant award. 22.11.2022 (in Norwegian)

. Press release from the European Research Council about the ERC Starting Grant Award 2022

. Article in Khrono about the ERC Starting Grant award. 22.11.2022 (in Norwegian)

Press release from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ about the ERC Starting Grant Award 2022: . 22.11.2022 (in Norwegian)

ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ article about ERC Starting Grant award. 22.11.2022

Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 12.03.2022

. Blog post on EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy blog. 8.03.2022

2021

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Chronopolitics and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. Presentation with Jacobsen, Christine, M., Presentation at the Center for Race & Gender, University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, the Department of Scandinavian, and supported by the Peder Sather Foundation

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Co-editor of the resource site

Blog post with Kari Anne Drangsland:

Blog post with Kari Anne Drangsland:

: The protection of refugees and migrants in an era of hardening borders.

- Karlsen and her colleagues organized the panel .

2020

- Karlsen presented a snapshot of IMER Bergen (International Migration and Ethnic Relations Research Unit Bergen) in the .

. Karlsen presented project work and chaired the session Temporality and waiting as analytical prisms in migration studies.

WAIT project blog post with Kari Anne Drangsland, Christine M. Jacobsen and Jessica Schultz:

WAIT project blog post with Kari Anne Drangsland and Christine M. Jacobsen: .

Lecture

Editorial/Leader article

Academic monograph

Book anthology

Media feature article

Conference lecture

Academic book chapter

Research report

Academic article

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

Media interview

Newest publication:

Jacobsen, C. M., & Karlsen, M. A., (2025) Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance: A Comparative Study. International Migration Review, 0(0). 

Karlsen, M.-A. (2023) Governing migration through vulnerability at Spain’s southern maritime border: a malleable concept in a securitised and marketised regime, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50(4), 873–890  

Jacobsen, C. M., & Karlsen, M. A., (2023) The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research. In N. Lykke, R. Koobak, P. Bakos, S. Arora, and K. Mohamed (eds.) Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place, Routledge: London and New York. 

Karlsen, Marry-Anne (2021). London and New York, Routledge.

Jacobsen, C. M., Karlsen, M. A., & Khosravi, S. (eds., 2020). . London and New York: Routledge

For a full overview, see ResearchGate profile and below.

ERC Starting Grant (2023-2028)

. Financed by the Research Council of Norway, RCN (2020 – 2024)        

Financed by Horizon 2020 (2020 – 2023)

Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Immobility and Movement Across Contested Grounds. Collaboration with the Center for Race & Gender, University of California, Berkeley. Financed by the Peder Sather Center (2020 – 2022)

. Collaboration with the Center for Race & Gender, University of California, Berkeley. Financed by the Peder Sather Center (2018 – 2020)

 (WAIT). Financed by RCN (2017 - 2020).

. Financed by the Swedish Foundation for International Collaboration in Research and Higher Education. (2016 – 2019)       

. Financed by RCN (2011 – 2015)