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Christine M. Jacobsen is a social anthropologist working in the field of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER). Her work has focused on issues related to Muslim minorities in Europe (France and Norway) and in particular on continuities and changes in religious traditions, identities and practices in a context of international migration, globalization and secular modernity. She recently published 'Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway', which sums up her work in this field. Jacobsen has also worked on transnational prostitution from a migration perspective, and on transnationalism and political mobilisation among young adults of minority background. Theoretically, Jacobsen’s work engages with poststructuralist and feminist theory, and with anthropological approaches to Islam as a discursive tradition. It deals with themes such as gender, migration, multiculturalism, transnationalism, citizenship, tradition, agency, law, religion and secularism. Jacobsen is currently a Senior Researcher at Uni Rokkansenteret, the Research Leader of IMER Bergen, and leads a new RCN (NFR) funded project on the Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants. She is a board member of NMF (Norsk Nettverk for Migrasjonsforskning) and NMR (Nordic Migration Research) and represents IMER Bergen in the Metropolis steering committee.

Research Interests

Themes: international migration, transnationalism, sex work/prostitution, multiculturalism, Islam, Muslims in Europa, gender, intersectionality, identity and culture, racism, secularism.

Region(s): France, Norway, Morocco.

Ongoing Projects

PROVIR

Provision of Welfare to 'Irregular Migrants' (2011-2014). Read more...

PROGEMI

Prostitution, gender and migration (2006-2010). Read more..

Transnational Networks, National Democracies

Political mobilisation and engagement among  young adults of immigrant background.

RECENT publications

Jacobsen, Christine M. and Mette Andersson (2012): "‘Gaza in Oslo’: Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth". In Ethnicities, 12(6). Published online June 2012.

Andersson, Mette, Christine M. Jacobsen, Jon Rogstad og Viggo Vestel (2012): Kritiske hendelser - Nye stemmer. Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Jacobsen, Christine M: Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway . Leiden: Brill, 2011.

Jacobsen,Christine M.: “Troublesome threesome: feminism, anthropology and Muslim women’s piety”, forthcoming in Feminist Review, 2011.

Jacobsen, Christine M., with Dag Stenvoll (2010):“Muslim women and foreign prostitutes. Victim discourse, subjectivity and governance”, Social Politics, International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 17(3): 270-294.

Jacobsen, Christine M. with May-Len Skilbrei: “‘Reproachable victims’? Representations and self-representations of Russian women in transnational prostitution”, in Ethnos 75(2), 2010, pp. 190-212.

Jacobsen, Christine M. (updated 2010) (with Oddbjørn Leirvik) “Norway” in Jørgen S. Nielsen (ed.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Christine M. (2009): “Norway”, in Göran Larsson (ed.) Islam in the Nordic and Baltic countries , London: Routledge.

Jacobsen, Christine M. (2009): “Norway”, in Göran Larsson (ed.) Islam in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Routledge.

Jacobsen, Christine. 2009. "De l'immigrant au citoyen: la production de "musulmans norvégiens"?, Ethnologie Française 39(2) pp. 229-239

Jacobsen, Christine M. (2009): “Norway”, (with Oddbjørn Leirvik), in Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Brigitte Maréchal, Christian Moe (eds.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Leiden: Brill.

Jacobsen, Christine M. og Randi Gressgård (2008): “Krevende toleranse. Islam og homoseksualitet”, in Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 32 (2), s. 22-40.

Jacobsen, C.M. 2008. “Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim Minorities in Norway”. Journal for the Scientific Study of Islam (Tidsskrift for Islamforskning), 3: 2 , pp. 27-52.

Jacobsen, C.M. 2007. ”Powers of the Secular Modern”, Bokanmeldelse i Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift nr. 3-4.

Jacobsen, C.M. 2007. ”Unge norske muslimer om kjønn og likeverd”, in NIKK magasin nr. 1, s.19-21. Oversatt til engelsk og publisert under tittelen "Young Muslims Critical of Patriarchal interpretations of Islam”, NIKK magasin nr. 3, 2007.

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

Jacobsen, C.M. 2006. Staying on the Straight Path: Religious Identities and Practices among Young Muslims in Norway.: University of Bergen. More at BORA-UiB.

Jacobsen, C M. 2005. "Religiosity of young Muslims in Norway: the quest for authenticity", in Jocelyne Cesari (ed.) European Muslims and the Secular State, by The Network of Comparative Research on Islam and Muslims in Europe, London: Ashgate. More information about the book here.

Jacobsen, C. M. 2004. "Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young Muslims in Norway". In Nordic Journal of Religion and Society ( Tidsskrift for kirke, religion og samfunn) 17 (1) pp. 5-28.

Jacobsen, C. M. and R. Gressgård. 2003: "Questions of Gender in a Multicultural Society" in NORA , Nr.2, Vol 11.

Jacobsen, C. M. and R. Gressgård. 2002: "En kvinner er ikke bare en kvinne. Kjønnsproblematikk i et flerkulturelt samfunn". I Cathrine Holst (red.) Frihet i en liten eske? Feminisme og demokrati i Norge. 2002.

Jacobsen, C. M. 2002 : Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge muslimer i Norge. Pax: Oslo.

Jacobsen, C. M. 2001 :Ung, muslim og kvinne på norsk. I NIKK magasin nr.1.

Jacobsen, C. M. 2001 : "Young, Muslim and Woman, Norwegia Style. I NIKK magasin No.3.

Jacobsen, C. M. 1999: Å vende tilbake til islam. Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst. IMER Norge/Bergen Rapport nr. 21/1999. More at BORA-UiB.

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