Centre for Global Criminology

Join us for interesting debates and presentations at the People's Meeting 2024, where CGC researchers will address topics such as co***ne use, police authorities, illegal trade, and e-waste.

Visit CGC's website to learn more about the events 👇

CGC Researchers at the People's Meeting 2024 Join us for interesting debates and presentations at this year's People's Meeting (Folkemøde), where CGC researchers will address important topics such as co***ne use, police powers, illegal trade, and e-waste. 

At the yearly conference of the Danish Centre against Human Trafficking (CMM) on 7th May 2024, the work of another CGC researcher, Alessandro Moretti, was highlighted.

His collaboration with CMM was discussed in their thematic report on indicators of human trafficking, including of online trafficking, and the so-called “x-factor”, which relates to the unquantifiable but invaluable experience and expertise of practitioners dedicated to identifying trafficking victims.

The report, which was launched at the conference, can be found below and features an interview with Moretti on the development of the indicators:

https://www.cmm.dk/Media/638507478254945576/Temarapport%20Indikatorer%20%20et%20redskab%20til%20at%20opspore%20menneskehandel.pdf

(The report is in Danish)

www.cmm.dk

CGC researcher Trine Mygind Korsby is one of the two keynote speakers at the yearly conference of the Danish Centre against Human Trafficking. Her keynote addresses the relationships between human traffickers and people identified as victims of human trafficking.

The conference takes place on May 7, 2024, and it brings together a range of stakeholders working to prevent human trafficking in Denmark, such as law enforcement, ministries, NGOs, and governmental agencies.

Read more about the upcoming conference here:

Årskonference 2024 Center mod Menneskehandel afholder årskonference den 7.maj i Middelfart.

CGC researcher Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum recently presented on the migration patterns and strategies that underpin illegal mining in Ghana at the Zolberg Institute at the New School, New York, USA.

Agyekum’s talk focused on how North-South migration dynamics related to artisanal, small-scale mining or galamsey (in Ghanaian parlance derived from gather and sell), in post-colonial Ghana follow patterns that were established during colonial labor economies. As a result, there is a dominance of Northerners in illegal mining.

Agyekum argues that whereas in the past, migration was forced or recruited, reasons for modern-day labor flows are diverse, varying from business capital accumulation to funding school fees. Contemporary illegal miners base their movements on information, such as on working conditions or accommodation, shared within family networks and hearsay from former mining colleagues or friends.

Agyekum also recently presented his research on the irregular mining of gold and how this affects the green transition agenda at the FAU Travelling Seminar Series entitled “New Currents in Global Development Research”.

Read more about the FAU Travelling Seminar Series via link: https://socialsciences.ku.dk/events/fau-travelling-seminar-series/

And The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility: https://zolberginstitute.org/

Home - Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility critical and applied scholarship. social action. policy engagement. About the Institute Announcements and Upcoming Events Book Launch: New Narratives on the People of America Certificate in Migration Studies Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Migration and Mobility StudiesOpportunity Summer 2024 IRC Fello...

CGC researcher Anja Simonsen has co-written an article with Mohamed S. Tarabi on how recent migration trends among the Somali youth and the rise of the migrant smuggling network, in Somali known as Magafe, have rendered traditional practices of solidarity ambiguous.

Simonsen and Tarabi argue that as increasing numbers of young Somali migrants have been taken captive in the deserts of Sudan and Libya in recent years, the Magafe network attempts to convince family members, and the wider Somali community, to pay extortionate ransoms by appealing to affective responses through images and sound recordings of torture. The authors examine how this practice exploits and transforms traditional clan-based solidarity that has historically been a mechanism of care.

The article is published in the Journal of East African Studies and can be found here👇

Images of torture: ‘affective solidarity’ and the search for ransom in the global Somali community Recent migration trends among the Somali youth and the rise of the migrant smuggling network, in Somali known as Magafe, have rendered traditional practices of solidarity ambiguous. Somali notions ...

CGC researcher Alessandro Moretti recently contributed to an episode of the BBC podcast ‘What In The World’!

The episode examines the illegal buying and reselling of tickets to e.g. concerts and sporting events for profit, known in the United Kingdom as ticket touting.

Moretti also recently published an article on the topic in a special issue of International Criminal Justice Review on the theme ‘Bridging the Online-Offline Divide in Criminology’. The article examines how ticket touts still rely on original forms of offline offending, despite the recent technological developments that have revolutionized how tickets are bought and sold.

Access the article and read more via link👇
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10575677241234601

Listen to the podcast here👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct67ck

BBC World Service - What in the World, Can ticket touts be beaten? Resellers are buying up tickets and driving up prices around the globe

Anja Simonsen has co-edited a podcast series on ethnic minorities' encounters with the Danish health care system!

The CGC researcher and member of The UCPH Migration Research Platform's steering group has along with Anna Elisabeth Stub Thygesen, Marcus Pedersen and Tanja Kathleen Benzon Monk co-edited the podcast series "(U)lige adgang for alle – Etniske minoriteters møder med den danske velfærdsstat" in cooperation with Antropologforeningen.

The podcast series is based on a seminar organized by Simonsen and sheds light on ethnic minorities’ encounters with the Danish health care system, which are often characterized by an unequal access to welfare benefits.

Listen to the second episode via the link below, where Marie Louise Nørredam, Chalotte Stecher and Caroline Alsted Flinck each give their take on what challenges people with a minority background experience in their interaction with in the Danish healthcare system, as well as what healthcare services are currently available.

The podcast is in Danish.

Ulige adgang for alle II: Etniske minoriteters møder med det danske sundhedsvæsen Danmark er kendt internationalt for at være en velfærdsstat, som i dets tilblivelse byggede på ideen om solidaritet og kompensation, og hvor moralsk dannelse og demokratiet var noget alle borgere var fælles om. Trods ideen om velfærd for alle viser forskning i dag, at ikke alle individer bosat ...

CGC's Criminological Observatory has published a report on young people's experiences and use of drugs. The report is based on a qualitative study done at Roskilde Festival 2023 and hightlights current trends within Danish party culture.

Read more on the CGC website via link below 👇

Young people find co***ne use increasingly common in party settings Co***ne use is becoming normalised in parts of party culture, according to a new study of Roskilde festival attendees.

CGC researcher, Atreyee Sen, has authored a chapter in a recently published ethnographic volume on disappearance.

The book “An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing”, edited by Laura Huttunen and Gerhild Perl, brings together ethnographic explorations of the disappearance of people in different social, cultural and political contexts, and addresses methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of researching disappearances and the disappeared.

Sen’s contribution, "‘Who Has Taken My Son (Amar Cheleke Ke Nilo)?’: Pervasive Missingness, Custodial Disappearances and Revolutionary Violence in Urban India", lays out the story of Shanta, a mother whose 14-year-old son disappeared in Calcutta, India after being taken away for ‘questioning’ by the city police. The chapter examines how her son’s ‘missing person’ case file emboldens Shanta’s journey of maternal loss, grief and justice-seeking in the face of state violence in South Asia.

The volume is available as both hardback and ebook via the link below 👇

An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

CGC researcher and PhD fellow, Rikke Haugegaard, has recently published an article in a new American academic journal!

Haugegaard's article entitled "Fighting Danger At Sea: The Quest For Speed In Special Operations" was recently published in the inaugural issue of Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations.

The article examines the concept of speed as both a perception and a teamwork technique in a cross-cultural learning environment, and shows how speed is an essential social temporality when maritime Special Operation Forces are fighting danger at sea.

Read the article via the link below 👇

Fighting Danger at Sea: The Quest for Speed in Special Operations Download PDFRikke Haugegaard, Ph.D. fellow, Centre for Global Criminology, University of Copenhagen and Royal Danish Defence College ABSTRACTThis article aims to contribute to the understanding of speed as a form of security in special operations warfare. The research is based on anthropological fie...

Last Thursday (Nov 2nd) CGC researcher and Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology UCPH, Atreyee Sen,
and Professor at the Department of Political Science UCPH, Karina Kosiara-Pederson, organized the workshop entitled:
Gender and Globalization of Violence.

At the workshop the nature, culture and magnitude of violence against gendered social groups across the world was widely discussed, and the seminar included several presentations on research exploring the correlation between gender and violence in a globalizing world from a range of researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds.

See the pictures from the workshop below 👇

(And stay tuned for upcoming CGC events on https://ccc.ku.dk/calender/ )

CGC-researcher, Anja Simonsen, has recently published the book "Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration", which she will be presenting this Friday (Oct 6th) in the Ethnographic Exploratory from 14:00-15:30!

The book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’.

The event will be moderated by Senior Researcher Nauja Kleist, Danish Institute of International Studies.

Read more at the CGC website 👇

Research Seminar Series: Book Launch: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration Associate Professor Anja Simonsen will be presenting her recently published book Tahriib: Journeys into the Unknown. An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration.