Dr. Sine Plambech is Senior Researcher at DIIS – the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen. She is Associated Lecturer at University of Copenhagen and former Visiting Professor at Yale and Columbia University.
Dr Plambech is an anthropologist and scholar of international migration in particular engaged in questions of critical migration and refugee studies, women’s migration, trafficking, border politics, transnational feminism, migrant sex work, marriage migration, labor migration, and the representations of these themes through visual anthropology and film making.
She has over the past fifteen years continuously carried out fieldwork and filmed in migrant communities, border areas, red light districts, and along migrant routes from and in Southern Nigeria, North East Thailand, Sicily and Northern Europe. Plambech’s current research is on women arriving as undocumented migrants from and through Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean.
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. Based on her research she is behind six award-winning films among them Heartbound (2018) for which she was awarded the American Anthropological Association’s for Best Feature and the British Royal Anthropological Institute’s Richard Werbner Award. Her films seek to pose counter-narratives to dominant portrayals of migration, family, borders and women as migrants.
Her articles have been published in Security Dialogue, Social Politics, Feminist Economics, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and The Anti-Trafficking Review. She is engaged with activist NGOs on migrants and sex worker rights and often participates in public debates on migration, the European migration crisis and human trafficking. Dr. Plambech her work is, among other places, displayed by the New Yorker, BBC, Le Monde and Deutsche Welle.
At LSE Plambech will work on her forthcoming ethnographic book which 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.