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I am Professor of Social Anthropology working mainly with questions related to migration and diversity.

My current research uses temporality as an analytical lens to examine power relations and experiences in migration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with irregularized migrants in Marseille, I just published the monograph . The topic is also developed in the edited volume  with Shahram Khosravi and Marry-Anne Karlsen. 

I worked for a number of years on gendered religious traditions, identities and practices among and France, in a context of international migration, globalization and secular modernity. I also researched ‘secular formations’; looking at gender and sexuality in the legal and para-legal government of religious practices () in Norway and France. 

My work also includes the topics of , and  . In the , I focused on how the concept of vulnerability is used in the governance of asylum seekers in France. 

Migration and temporality: the case of migrants ‘waiting for regularisation’ in Marseille. Séminaire commun de département POLICY, Institut Convergences Migration, Campus Concordet, Paris. 30.03.2022. 

Fieldwork studies of the governance of international protection in practice: a comparative perspective. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. 16.02.2022. 

Entangled temporalities and im/mobilities: the case of 'migrants waiting for regularisation' in Marseille. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. 21.02.2022.

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The power-chronographies of waiting for asylum in Marseille, France. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology and Sociology SOAS, University of London. 28.10.2020.

‘Waitinghood and acceleration: the temporalities of un/documented lives in Marseille’, at the Conference Staying, Moving, Settling, European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. 14-17 Aug. 2018

'Waiting between hope and violence' (with Drangsland, Kari-Anne) Paper presented at the Conference The Social Life of Time: Power, Discrimination and Transformation, University of Edinburgh, 5-7 juni. Session 7: in Backdoor Broadcasting: Academic Podcasts. Access: 

'Waiting for an Uncertain Future: The Temporalities of Irregular Migration and Asylum Policymaking', paper presented at the Conference Whither European asylum policy? A pendulum between universalisation and re-nationalisation, Organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Strategic Working Group of Leaders for Global Challenges at the University of Bergen and the University of Bergen's Brussels office. 

Presentation of the research project 'WAIT- Waiting for an uncertain future: The temporalities of irregular migration' at the Health Care for Undocumented Migrants, Nordic Seminar 4th-5th of May 2018, Bergen, Norway.

'The Transformative Effects of Migration on Gender in Politics and Society' at The Transformative Consequences of International Migration symposium 9 March, 2018, organised by ���ϳԹ���Դ Research Unit on International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER Bergen) in collaboration with Global Challenges, University of Bergen.

'Dieu vous le rendra: Caring for Others and the Self in the Context of 'Migration Crisis' and 'Secular Suspicion', invited paper Presented at the Conferenence Muslim Care Beyond the Self: Ethics of Care among Muslims and their Neighbours, the Anthropology Research Program, Aarhus University, 11. December 2017.

'Penser l'attente et la temporalité dans l'immigration irrégulier', presentation by Christine M. Jacobsen and Sandrine Musso in the Seminar Series Frontières, temporalités, matérialités au prisme de la Santé, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille, 9 November 2017.  

Key note lecture/panelist “Gender, time and the irregularization of migrants in Europe”, at the Sex, migration and new world (dis)order conference organized by DIIS and Bernard College, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen May 31. 2017.

Guest lecture “Times of Migration: Un/documented Lives in Marseille”, at The Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Copenhagen March 24. 2017.

Key note lecture “Irregular migrant’s ‘precarious inclusion’ in European health care regimes”, Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research anniversary seminar, Oslo January 12. 2017.

 Er kvinner på flukt ekstra utsatt? Og utgjør innvandring en trussel mot den norske likestillingen? Femte episode av Kjønnsavdelingen tar for seg likestillingsspørsmålet i migrasjon.

"Cross-discipline approaches to migration temporalities", paper presented at . October 24-25, 2016 The University of Chicago. View the presentation 

, intervju med På Høyden om prosjektet: Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration

Podcast:  Jacobsen, Bendixsen and Karlsen outline findings from the project PROVIR, examining the access to welfare and its limitations for irregular migrants in Norway. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements

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Vår 2026, SANT 108, Etnografi i praksis | ���ϳԹ���Դ 

Høst 2025, SANT 105, Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Vår 2025 SANT 257, Etnografi i praksis | ���ϳԹ���Դ

Høst 2024, SANT 105,  Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Høst 2023, SANT 105, Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Vår 2023, SANT 260,  

Høst 2022, SANT 100, 

Høst 2021, SANT 100, 

Vår 2017, KVIK 206, 

Books and edited volumes:  

*. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2026. 

*. Special Issue of Émulations. Revue de Sciences Sociales, (co-edited with  Emeline Zougbédé) n. 49. 2024.  

* (co-edited with Marry-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi). London: Routledge, 2020. 

*(redigert sammen med Synnøve S.N. Bendixsen and Karl Harald Søvig). Oslo: Gyldendal akademiske, 2015

* (samforfattet med M. Andersson, J. Rogstad, V. Vestel). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget , 2012

*Islam and Gender in Europe: Subjectivities, Politics &Piety, Special Issue of (co-edited with Schirin Amir-Moazami and Maleiha Malik), 98(2), 2011

*. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

 *�վ�����ø����������ens mange former. Unge muslimer i Oslo. Oslo: Unipax. 2002.

Journal articles:  

Jacobsen, Christine M.  and Marry-Anne Karlsen. 2025. Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance: A Comparative Study. International Migration Review, 0(0).

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2024. Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2022.  Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 33 (3-4): 244-261. 

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2022. /. Anthropologie & Santé Revue internationale francophone d'anthropologie de la santé 24 bis (hors-série) | 2022 Sandrine Musso. OEuvre et posture en anthropologie politique, publique et impliquée. 

“'Look into My Eyes': Music, Religion, and the Politics of Muslim Youth in Norway”, (with Viggo Vestel), in Journal of Muslims in Europe, 7(1), 2018. 

”, Ethnos, 83(3): 544-566, 2017. 

, roundtable with Jacobsen, C.M., Fernando, M. & Jakobsen, J. Feminist Review (2016) 113: 93.

"", American Behavioral Scientist, 59 (7) 2015: 886-897    

&�Բ�����;“” (with Pauline Stoltz, Christine M. Jacobsen, Lena Gemzöe and Margaretha Fahlgren) Rita Bencivenga (ed.) in About Gender – International Journal of Gender Studies 4 (7), 2015

"Citoyen intolerable: tolerance, Islam et homosexualite" (with Randi E. Gressgård). Nordiques 2014 (28): 41-49

(with Mette Andersson). In Ethnicities, 12(6), 2012: 821 - 843.

"". , 98(1) 2011: 65-82.

(with Schirin Amir-Moazami and Maleiha Malik). , 98(1) 2011: 1-8.

” (with Dag Stenvoll), Social Politics, International Studies in Gender, State and Society 17(3) 2010:  270-294.

(with May-Len Skilbrei), in Ethnos 75(2) 2010: 190-212.

Ethnologie Française 39(2) 2009: 229-239.

 (with Randi E. Gressgård), Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 32(2) 2008: 22-40.

, Journal for the Scientific Study of Islam, 3(2) 2008: 27-52.

“Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young Muslims in Norway”, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, 17(1) 2004: 5-28.

(with Randi E. Gressgård), Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (NORA) 11(2) 2003: 69-77.

Book chapters

 (m. Marry-Anne Karlsen). In Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place. Edited By Nina Lykke, Redi Koobak, Petra Bakos, Swati Arora, Kharnita Mohamed. Routledge: London and New York, 2023. 

, in Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi (eds.) . Routledge: London and New York, 2021.

'On Feminist Critique and How the Ontological Turn is Queering Anthropology' (m. Annelin Eriksen), in Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco – (Eds.) . Routledge: London and New York, 2019.

'The (In)egalitarian Dynamics of Gender Equality and Homotolerance in Contemporary Norway', in Bendixsen, Synnøve, Bringslid, Mary Bente og Vike, Halvard (eds.), , Palgrave, 2017  

'Begreper og perspektiver i forskning omkring irregulære migranter og velferd', in *(Synnøve S.N. Bendixsen, Christine M. Jacobsen and Karl Harald Søvig). Oslo: Gyldendal akademiske, 2015 

(with Oddbjørn Leirvik) “Norway” in Jørgen S. Nielsen (ed.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Leiden: Brill, 2009, updated 2010, 2011, 2012. 2013.

&�Բ�����;“Norway”, in Göran Larsson (ed.) , London: Routledge, 2009.

“Beyond ′Man′: In Defence of Multidimensional Identities”, in Yngve G. Lithman and Hakan G. Sicakkan (eds.) Envisioning Togetherness: Politics of Identity and Forms of Belonging. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

&�Բ�����;“Religiosity of Young Muslims in Norway: the Quest for Authenticity”, in Jocelyne Cesari and Sean McLoughlin (eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

&�Բ�����;“Muslim GenDerations. Questions of Identity in the Return to Islam”. In Lithman, Y.G. and Andersson, M. (eds.) Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life, Stockholm: Daidalos, 2005.

“En kvinner er ikke bare en kvinne. Kjønnsproblematikk i et flerkulturelt samfunn” (with Randi E. Gressgård). In Cathrine Holst (red.) ����ø�ԲԲ�����ٳٴڱ���徱������. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk. 1. utg. Makt- og demokratiutredningen, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademiske, 2002.

 (Global Societal Challenges, GSU, ���ϳԹ���Դ)

(Research Council of Norway)

 (EU, Horizon 2020)

 (Peder Saether Grant)

New tools for transnational analysis in postgraduate intersectional gender research - Towards long-term international collaborations in Doctoral and Postdoctoral training (STINT)

 (Research Council of Norway)

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