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Nauja Kleist
Primary research areas
Nauja Kleist’s research focuses on the linkages between mobility, belonging and social order. She analyses how migration is perceived, practiced and governed by different actors, the role of mobility in society, and the transnational engagement of diaspora groups with a focus on gender and affect.
Current research
Nauja Kleist analyses Somali diaspora engagement in humanitarianism and development in Somalia, with attention to mobility regimes, conflict, the international humanitarian system as well as gender and family relations, belonging and affect. Her research also explores the role of migration for local communities, migration as an imagined pathway for a better future, return migration and the politicization of these issues. Kleist works ethnographically, with expertise in multi-sited fieldwork and longitudinal studies. Theoretical focus on mobility and immobility, infrastructure, temporality, gender and belonging.
Projects
Nauja Kleist coordinates the collective research program Diaspora Humanitarianism in Complex Crises (D-Hum) with focus on Somalia and Somali diaspora groups. She is also part of the Governing Climate Mobility (GCM) research program that explores links between climate change, mobility and governance in Ghana and Ethiopia.
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