Sine Plambech
External Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 København K
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
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Sex, Deportation and Rescue: Economies of Migration among Nigerian Sex Workers
Plambech, Sine, 2017, In: Feminist Economics. 23, 3, p. 134-159Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Points of Departure: Migration Control and Anti-Trafficking in the Lives of Nigerian Sex Worker Migrants after Deportation from Europe
Plambech, Sine, 2014, Københavns Universitet. 213 p.Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
- Accepted/In press
Becky’s Journey
Plambech, Sine, 2014, (Accepted/In press)Research output: Other contribution › Communication
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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 journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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Victims of Trafficking Return Home to Great Expectations
Plambech, Sine, 2013, ScienceNordic.com.Research output: Other contribution › Communication
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En skamplet på nationens ære
Plambech, Sine, 13 Feb 2013, In: Udvikling. 1, p. 51-54 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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Den danske samvittighed spøger i Afrika
Plambech, Sine, 5 Sep 2012, In: Dagbladet Politiken.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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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 journal › Literature review › Communication
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Ny handlingsplan mod menneskehandel vil fortælle succeshistorier
Plambech, Sine, 24 Jun 2011Research output: Memorandum/exposition › Memorandum
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Danmark deporterer handlede kvinder hjem til en uvis skæbne
Plambech, Sine, 27 Jun 2011, In: Information.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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Trafficking: Mission Kvindehandel
Plambech, Sine & Lansade, J., 2010Research output: Non-textual form › Sound/Visual production (digital) › Communication
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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 proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Going back - moving on: A synthesis report of the trends and experiences of returned trafficking victims in Thailand and the Philippines
Plambech, Sine & Lisborg, A., 2009, 103 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Commissioned
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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. 5Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Fra Thy til Thailand: Ticket to Paradise
Plambech, Sine & Metz, J., 2008Research output: Non-textual form › Sound/Visual production (digital) › Communication
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Fra Thailand til Thy: Love on Delivery
Plambech, Sine & Metz, J., 2008Research output: Non-textual form › Sound/Visual production (digital) › Communication
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Usynlige og synlige: Thailandske kvinder i den europæiske sexindustri
Plambech, Sine, 2007, In: Den Ny Verden - Tidsskrift for internationale studier. 40, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Lykken er en datter i Danmark
Plambech, Sine, 10 Jan 2007, In: Dagbladet Politiken.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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"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 journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Ikke kun sexslaver
Plambech, Sine, 26 Aug 2004, In: Dagbladet Politiken.Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article › Communication
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