I am Professor of Social Anthropology working mainly with questions related to migration and diversity.

My current research uses temporality as an analytical lens to examine power relations and experiences in migration. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with irregularized migrants in Marseille, I just published the monograph Waiting for Papers: Temporalities of Undocumented Migration in Marseille. The topic is also developed in the edited volume Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration with Shahram Khosravi and Marry-Anne Karlsen. 

I worked for a number of years on gendered religious traditions, identities and practices among young Muslims in Norway and France, in a context of international migration, globalization and secular modernity. I also researched ‘secular formations’; looking at gender and sexuality in the legal and para-legal government of religious practices (such as female covering) in Norway and France. 

My work also includes the topics of prostitution, gender and migration, and  transnationalism and political mobilisation among young adults of minority background. In the PROTECT project, I focused on how the concept of vulnerability is used in the governance of asylum seekers in France. 

Migration and temporality: the case of migrants ‘waiting for regularisation’ in Marseille. Séminaire commun de département POLICY, Institut Convergences Migration, Campus Concordet, Paris. 30.03.2022. 

Fieldwork studies of the governance of international protection in practice: a comparative perspective. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. 16.02.2022. 

Entangled temporalities and im/mobilities: the case of 'migrants waiting for regularisation' in Marseille. Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. 21.02.2022.

Chronopolitics and knowledge production in migration studies. The Center for Race & Gender (CRG), University of Berkeley, California, Thursday, Apr 15, 2021 (recording of zoom webinar)

When “vulnerability” is at stake: discourses on precarious lives in Marseille, Blogpost for PROTECT. March 8th 2021

Waiting for uncertain futures: Time and migration, WAIT Closing Conference, Podcasts

Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times, Blogpost for WAIT, April 16th 2020

How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting migrants with precarious legal status? Blogpost for WAIT, April 16th 2020

The power-chronographies of waiting for asylum in Marseille, France. Invited lecture, Department of Anthropology and Sociology SOAS, University of London. 28.10.2020.

‘Waitinghood and acceleration: the temporalities of un/documented lives in Marseille’, at the Conference Staying, Moving, Settling, European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. 14-17 Aug. 2018

'Waiting between hope and violence' (with Drangsland, Kari-Anne) Paper presented at the Conference The Social Life of Time: Power, Discrimination and Transformation, University of Edinburgh, 5-7 juni. Session 7: in Backdoor Broadcasting: Academic Podcasts. Access: https://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/audio/2018_06_07/2018_06_07_SLoT_Christine_Jacobsen_talk.mp3

'Waiting for an Uncertain Future: The Temporalities of Irregular Migration and Asylum Policymaking', paper presented at the Conference Whither European asylum policy? A pendulum between universalisation and re-nationalisation, Organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Strategic Working Group of Leaders for Global Challenges at the University of Bergen and the University of Bergen's Brussels office. 

Presentation of the research project 'WAIT- Waiting for an uncertain future: The temporalities of irregular migration' at the Health Care for Undocumented Migrants, Nordic Seminar 4th-5th of May 2018, Bergen, Norway.

'The Transformative Effects of Migration on Gender in Politics and Society' at The Transformative Consequences of International Migration symposium 9 March, 2018, organised by UiB Research Unit on International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER Bergen) in collaboration with Global Challenges, University of Bergen.

'Dieu vous le rendra: Caring for Others and the Self in the Context of 'Migration Crisis' and 'Secular Suspicion', invited paper Presented at the Conferenence Muslim Care Beyond the Self: Ethics of Care among Muslims and their Neighbours, the Anthropology Research Program, Aarhus University, 11. December 2017.

'Penser l'attente et la temporalité dans l'immigration irrégulier', presentation by Christine M. Jacobsen and Sandrine Musso in the Seminar Series Frontières, temporalités, matérialités au prisme de la Santé, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille, 9 November 2017.  

Key note lecture/panelist “Gender, time and the irregularization of migrants in Europe”, at the Sex, migration and new world (dis)order conference organized by DIIS and Bernard College, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen May 31. 2017.

Guest lecture “Times of Migration: Un/documented Lives in Marseille”, at The Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), Copenhagen March 24. 2017.

Key note lecture “Irregular migrant’s ‘precarious inclusion’ in European health care regimes”, Norwegian Forum for Global Health Research anniversary seminar, Oslo January 12. 2017.

Kjønnsavdelingen episode 5: Migrasjon Er kvinner på flukt ekstra utsatt? Og utgjør innvandring en trussel mot den norske likestillingen? Femte episode av Kjønnsavdelingen tar for seg likestillingsspørsmålet i migrasjon.

"Cross-discipline approaches to migration temporalities", paper presented at Transatlantic Forum, Big Challenges Human Solutions. October 24-25, 2016 The University of Chicago. View the presentation here (starts at 11:51 in the video).

Kva skjer med de som ventar, intervju med På Høyden om prosjektet: Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration

Podcast: 'Provision of welfare to irregular migrants: exploring the borders of the Norwegian welfare state'. Jacobsen, Bendixsen and Karlsen outline findings from the project PROVIR, examining the access to welfare and its limitations for irregular migrants in Norway. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements

 I lovens skygge. Irregulære migranter har svakt rettsvern i Norge.

 Nye stemmer utfordrer, intervju om boka Kritiske hendelser - nye stemmer.

 Doktorgrad på unge norske muslimer

 

Vår 2026, SANT 108, Etnografi i praksis | UiB 

Høst 2025, SANT 105, Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Vår 2025 SANT 257, Etnografi i praksis | UiB

Høst 2024, SANT 105,  Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Høst 2023, SANT 105, Politikk, makt og motstand | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Vår 2023, SANT 260, Bacheloroppgåve | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no) 

Høst 2022, SANT 100, Examen facultatum - Invitasjon til sosialantropologi | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Høst 2021, SANT 100, Examen facultatum - Invitasjon til sosialantropologi | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no)

Vår 2017, KVIK 206, Kjønn, migrasjon og tid

 

Conference lecture

• Christine M. Jacobsen (2025). - «Mens vi venter på papirer».. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Shaping the Future of Islam in Norway: Religious Revival and Identity Politics among Muslim Youth and Students in Oslo. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway: Politics, Piety, Subjectivities. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Notes towards a comparision of "religious freedom" and "the Muslim question" in France and Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Religiøs identitet og praksis blant unge muslimer i Norge. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Dag Stenvoll (2008). Muslim Women and ForeignProstitutes: Female Victimhood in Norwegian Gender Constructions. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Regulating religion in secular Europe – Criminalizing religious practice?. (external link)
• Kari Jegerstedt; Christine M. Jacobsen (2018). Teaching Critical Gender Studies – Dilemmas of Identity and Politics. Roundtable discussion also including Rosemarie Buikema and Tamara Shefer. (external link)
• Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen; Christine M. Jacobsen; Karl Harald Søvig (2014). Precarious inclusion: Provision of welfare to irregular migrants in Norway. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2000). ”Fundamentalister, apostater eller kontekstualister? Unge muslimer i Oslo”. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2011). Intolerable Citizens: Tolerance, Islam and Homosexuality. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2006). Essentialism and Non-Essentialism. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Dag Stenvoll (2007). Nadias and Natashas: Female victimhood at the discursive margins of Scandinavian gender constructions. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Intolerable Citizens: Tolerance, Islam and Homosexuality. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Muslimsk ungdom: religion, nettverk og essensialisme. (external link)
• Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen; Christine M. Jacobsen (2012). Mourning and belonging: The becoming political of irregularized migrants in Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Helse i Velferdsstatens grenseland. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). "The concept of 'Religion' in the project “Regulating Religion: Religious freedom and secularism in the Global Era. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2003). Unge muslimer i Norge: forhandlinger om kjønn og religion. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Challenging Methodological Nationalism: Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim Minorities. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Hvordan skal vi tenke forholdet mellom feminisme, multikulturalisme og anti-rasisme?. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2000). "Feminisme og multikulturalisme". (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine M. Jacobsen (2009). Demanding secularism: tolerance, Islam and homosexuality. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2016). Gender equality and homotolerance in bordering processes and citizenship politics. (external link)
• Anette Fagertun; Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). De-naturalizing difference: Challenging the production of global social inequality.Begrepsdiskusjon. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine Jacobsen (2002). Questions of Gender in a Multicultural Society. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2001). "Tilhørighetens mange former: Unge muslimer i Norge". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2008). Krevende toleranse: Islam og homoseksualitet. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Gendered Citizenship Seen Through French Legal Bans on Muslim Women’s Coverings. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). ‘Migrant illegality’ and the navigation of interior borders in the city of Marseille. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2014). Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants: Exploring the borders of the Norwegian Welfare State. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). The production of 'illegality', deportable subjects and sick bodies: Tunisian migration to Marseille after the Jasmine Revolution. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Encounters between Nordic health, welfare and the global – Challenges and possibilities. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (1999). ”Emerging Forms of Belonging among Muslim Youth in the Plural City”. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2006). "Second generation Muslims in France and Norway: Differences and commonalities with regard to issues, fractions, discourses". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). “Choosing what is good and collecting religious reward”. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2011). Sexual politics and the governement of Islam in Europe. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Intolerable Citizens: Tolerance, Islam and Homosexuality. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2001). "Contested Identities: Discourses of Authenticity and Autonomy among Muslim Youth in Oslo". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Feminist Contentions: Challenges in Theorizing Muslim Women’s Religious Identities and Practices. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Islam, Feminism and Anthropology. Grappling with Muslim religious identities and practices. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Alieu Jalloh (2023). The Temporary Residence of ‘St. Bazile’ and The Boat to Be as Sites for Speculating about the Future. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (1999). Emerging Forms of Belonging among Muslim Youth in the Plural City. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2024). Un/doing temporalities in migration research. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine Jacobsen (2009). Demanding secularism: tolerance, Islam and homosexuality. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). The Production of ’Norwegian Muslims’”: From Immigrants to Citizens?. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Introduction to New perspectives on Secularism and the Secular. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2004). Negotiating Gender: Discourses and Practices Among Young Muslims in a Scandinavian City. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Fromhet og identitetspolitikk: Islam I Norge. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Illegalisert migrasjon og grensers de- og re-naturalisering. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Papirløse og velferdsstatens grenser. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Critical events and transnational social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Migrant Illegality. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2000). "Er multikulturalisme bra for kvinner?". (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2000). "Kjønn som multikulturelt dilemma". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Transnational networks, national democracies: Political mobilisation and engagement among young adults of immigrant background. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Provision of Welfare to Irregular Migrants. (external link)
• Marry-Anne Karlsen; Christine M. Jacobsen (2021). Chronopolitics and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2002). "Diskurser om autentisitet og autonomi blant unge muslimer i Oslo". (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (1999). Muslim Genderations. Questions of Identity in the Return to Islam. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2004). Representing Islam": essentialising practices among young Muslims in Oslo. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2004). Hijab og regjering i et historisk perspekt. (external link)
• Kari Anne Klovholt Drangsland; Christine M. Jacobsen (2023). Urban migrant futures. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen (2012). Becoming worthy citizens: the destabilization and re-inscription of citizenship boundaries. (external link)
• Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen; Christine M. Jacobsen (2012). Mourning and belonging: The becoming political of irregularized migrants in Norway. (external link)
• Dag Stenvoll; Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Nadia and Natacha: Female Victimhood in Norwegian Gender Constructions. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Nadia og Natasha: Grenser for norsk kvinnelighet. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Protecting the children of the Republic: 'Les affairs du foulard' continued. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). "La loi anti-nounous voilée”: Religious freedom in the problem space of French secularism. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). I velferdsstatens grenseland: «Irregulær migrasjon» som utfordring for velferdsforskning og velferdspolitikk. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). The production of 'illegality', deportable subjects and sick bodies: Tunisian migration to Marseille after the Jasmine Revolution. (external link)
• Margit Ystanes; Christine M. Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård et al. (2019). Roundtable: Creativity, Resistance, and Change in Times of Crises: Who is the Subject Speaking?. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Monica Five Aarset (2008). Kjønn som over- og underbelyst tema i forskningen på islam i Norge. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; May-Len Østbye Skilbrei (2008). Resisting victimhood: Russianwomen in transnational prostitution. (external link)
• Mette Andersson; Christine Jacobsen (1999). Andregenerasjonen som indikator på sosial og kulturell forandring. (external link)

Research report

• Christine Jacobsen (1999). Å vende tilbake til islam. Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen; Vearey Jo (2022). Draft analysis of how networks of international, national and local actors collaborate to reduce vulnerabilities on Six Sites in Europe, Canada, and South Africa. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (1999). Å vende tilbake til islam. Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (1999). Å vende tilbake til islam. Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen; Jo Vearey (2022). How key actors and stakeholders apply the notion of vulnerability in Europe, Canada, and South Africa. (external link)

Academic article

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Mayanthi Fernando; Janet Jakobsen (2016). Gender, sex and religious freedom in the context of secular law. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Emeline Zougbédé (2024). Le gouvernement de la vulnérabilité: expériences et réappropriations en migration. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Theory and Politics in Research on Muslim Minorities in Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Communicating irregular migration. (external link)
• May-Len Østbye Skilbrei; Christine M. Jacobsen (2010). Reproachable victims? Representations and self-representations of Russian women in transnational prostitution. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine Jacobsen (2003). Questions of Gender in a Multicultural Society. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; May-Len Østbye Skilbrei (2010). 'Reproachable Victims'? Representations and Self-representations of Russian Women Involved in Transnational Prostitution. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2022). Kollaps, utkastelse, okkupasjon: migranters boligsituasjon i Marseille. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Pauline Stoltz; Lena Gemzöe et al. (2015). Perspectives on gender studies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2017). Veiled Nannies and Secular Futures in France. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2025). Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance: A Comparative Study. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2022). Temporalités et politiques du corps migrant/Temporality and the politics of the migrant body.. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Citoyen intolerable: tolerance, Islam et homosexualite. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2001). -"Ung, muslim og kvinne på norsk". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). troublesome threesome: feminism, anthropology and Muslim women's piety. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2003). Questions of gender in a multicultural society. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2009). De l'immigrant au citoyen: la production de "musulmans norvégiens"?. (external link)
• Randi Gressgård; Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Krevende toleranse: Islam og homoseksualitet. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2004). Negotiating gender: discourse and practice among young muslims in<BR/>Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Mette Andersson (2012). 'Gaza in Oslo': Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2021). God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion. . (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2001). Young, Muslim and Woman, Norwegian Style. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Viggo Jan Vestel (2018). 'Look into my eyes': music, religion, and the politics of Muslim youth in Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2023). Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen; Dag Stenvoll (2010). Muslim Women and Foreign Prostitutes: Victim Discourse, Subjectivity, and Governance. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Christine M Jacobsen (2005). Religiosity of young Muslims in Norway: the quest for authenticity. (external link)
• Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik; Christine M. Jacobsen (2013). Norway. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2005). Muslim GenDerations. Questions of Identity in the Return to Islam. (external link)
• Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik; Christine M. Jacobsen (2010). Norway. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2006). “Beyond 'Man': In Defence of Multidimensional Identities”. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2017). The (in)egalitarian dynamics of Gender Equality and Homotolerance in Contemporary Norway. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen; Randi Gressgård (2002). En kvinne er ikke bare en kvinne. Kjønnsproblematikk i et flerkulturelt samfunn. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Annelin Eriksen (2019). On feminist critique and how the ontological turn is queering anthropology. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Begreper og perspektiver i forskningen om irregulær migrasjon og velferd. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2023). The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2020). 'They said wait, wait – and I waited': The power chronographies of waiting for asylum in Marseille, France. (external link)
• Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik; Christine M. Jacobsen (2009). Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2020). Introduction: Unpacking the temporalities of irregular migration. (external link)

Media interview

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Isak Ladegaard (2012). Young Muslims in Oslo: From Riots to Responsibility. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Bekymret for at ‘muslim’ blir viktigere enn ‘norsk’. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2006). Intervju i Morgenbladet. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen; Olga Stokke (2001). "Koranen som forhandlingskort". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). 4 år med niqabforbud i Frankrike. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen; Kristin Haug (2003). "La oss velge selv". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Lorenz Khazaleh (2006). Doktorgrad på unge norske muslimer: På vei til en transnasjonal islam. (external link)
• Ingvil Førland Hellstrand; Lene Myong; Christine M. Jacobsen et al. (2017). Flere vil studere kjønn. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Kjønnsrettferdighet i Profetens ånd. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Isak Ladegaard (2013). Opptøyene i Oslo vekket unge muslimer politisk. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen; Eirik Damsgaard (2003). Skaut er ikke undertrykking. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Berit E. Blumberger (2008). Hiphop på norske muslimers iPod. (external link)

Professional article

• Ann Therese Lotherington; Christine M. Jacobsen; Merete Lie et al. (2015). Kjønnsforskning på tvers. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Heidi Mogstad; Cathrine Thorleifsson et al. (2025). NAT Forum: Engasjert antropologi i turbulente tider. (external link)

Lecture

• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). BT Allmenningen: Etter Terroren. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2002). Muslimer i Norge. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). (Mis)recognizing Muslims in Europe. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Åpningsforedrag til utstillingen Empire’s Borders I og II/Factory av den Taiwanske kunstneren Chen Chieh-Jen. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Marianne Bøe; Sigrun Åsebø et al. (2011). Hijab - krav, plikt eller rettighet. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2002). Muslimer i Norge. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2004). Det likestilte Norge sett utenfra -8. mars ved Universitetet i Bergen. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2006). Å forske på ungdom og islam. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen; Sverre Ole Drønen (2012). Kritiske hendelser – nye stemmer!. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2001). "Kjønn og likestilling i innvandringsdebatten". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Tilslørte barnepiker: Religionsfrihet og sekularisme på fransk. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2002). "Muslimske familier i Norge". (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2012). Kritiske Hendelser – Nye Stemmer. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Veronica Demez; Christine M. Jacobsen (2023). Motivasjon i frivillig arbeid: En antropologisk tilnærming til å forstå hva som driver mennesker til å hjelpe andre. (external link)
• Laila Dawn Berge; Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Barn av irregulære migranter - Ulikhet og ekskludering i møte med likhet og inkludering. (external link)
• Silje Cathrin Haukeland Thowsen; Christine M. Jacobsen (2014). Expectations and Experiences: Living with a negative in a Norwegian reception centre. (external link)
• Malin Skripeland; Christine M. Jacobsen (2023). Stadier av migrasjonsaspirasjoner: En etnografisk studie av internasjonal mobilitet og migrasjonsaspirasjoner blant middelklasse pakistanere i Lahore og Oslo.. (external link)

Popular science article

• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Young Muslims Critical of Patriarchal interpretations of Islam. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Unge norske muslimer om kjønn og likeverd. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2001). "Young, Muslim and Woman, Norwegian style". (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Noor Jdid; Cindy Horst; Christine M. Jacobsen (2021). "Taking part in society the way I am". An exploration of active citizenship norms in Denmark and Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2006). Staying on the Straight Path. Religious Identities and Practices among Young Muslims in Norway. (external link)
• Marry-Anne Karlsen; Christine M. Jacobsen (2015). Precarious inclusion. Irregular migration, practices of care, and state b/ordering in Norway. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik (2012). Norway, Muslim Populations. (external link)

Book anthology

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Shahram Khosravi; Marry-Anne Karlsen (2020). Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration. (external link)
• Synnøve Kristine Nepstad Bendixsen; Christine M. Jacobsen; Karl Harald Søvig (2015). Eksepsjonell velferd? Irregulære migranter i det norske velferdssamfunnet. (external link)

Other presentation

• Annelin Eriksen; Christine M. Jacobsen; Geir Henning Presterudstuen et al. (2025). Det umistelige kjønnsperspektivet - panelsamtale på Norsk Antropologisk Foreningings konferanse 2025. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Christine M. Jacobsen (2011). Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2026). Waiting for Papers: Temporalities of Undocumented Migration in Marseille. (external link)
• Viggo Jan Vestel; Mette Andersson; Christine M. Jacobsen et al. (2012). Kritiske hendelser - Nye stemmer. Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge. (external link)
• Christine M Jacobsen (2002). Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge Muslimer i Norge. (external link)

Blog post

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Alieu Jalloh (2023). The Temporary Residence of ‘St. Bazile’ and The Boat to Be as Sites for Speculating about the Future - GRIP. (external link)

Radio or TV participation

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Susanne Bygnes; Anne Britt Djuve et al. (2012). Teorier og politikk: Fortellinger om multikulturalismens død. (external link)
• Christine M. Jacobsen (2008). Intervju i verdibørsen. (external link)
• Christine Jacobsen (2002). Intervju om boka Tilhørighetens mange former: Unge muslimer i Oslo. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Christine M. Jacobsen; Schirin Amir-Moazami; Maleiha Malik (2011). Islam and gender in Europe: subjectivities, politics and piety. (external link)

Journal review

• Christine M. Jacobsen (2007). Powers of the secular modern. Talal Asad and his interlocutors. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

 Books and edited volumes:  

*Waiting for Papers: Temporalities of Undocumented Migration in Marseille. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.

*Le gouvernement de la vulnérabilité : expériences et réappropriations en migration (co-edited with  Emeline Zougbédé). Special Issue of Émulations. Revue de Sciences Sociales, n. 49. 2024.  

*Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration (co-edited with Marry-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi). London: Routledge, 2020. 

*Eksepsjonell velferd? Irregulære migranter i det norske velferdssamfunnet (redigert sammen med Synnøve S.N. Bendixsen and Karl Harald Søvig). Oslo: Gyldendal akademiske, 2015

*Nye stemmer – kritiske hendelser: Politisk engasjement og transnasjonal orientering i det nye Norge (co-authored with M. Andersson, J. Rogstad, V. Vestel). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget , 2012

*Islam and Gender in Europe: Subjectivities, Politics &Piety, Special Issue of Feminist Review(co-edited with Schirin Amir-Moazami and Maleiha Malik), 98(2), 2011

*Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

 *Tilhørighetens mange former. Unge muslimer i Oslo. Oslo: Unipax. 2002.

 

Journal articles

Jacobsen, Christine M.  and Marry-Anne Karlsen. 2025. Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance: A Comparative Study. International Migration Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183251323605

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2024. Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion: the struggles of asylum seekers in Marseille. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2293636

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2022. Kollaps, utkastelse, okkupasjon: migranters boligsituasjon i Marseille. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift 33 (3-4): 244-261. 

Jacobsen, Christine M. 2022. Temporalités et politiques du corps migrant/Temporality and the politics of the migrant body. Anthropologie & Santé Revue internationale francophone d'anthropologie de la santé 24 bis (hors-série) | 2022 Sandrine Musso. OEuvre et posture en anthropologie politique, publique et impliquée. 

"God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion". Contemporary Islam 15, 153–168 (2021).

“'Look into My Eyes': Music, Religion, and the Politics of Muslim Youth in Norway”, (with Viggo Vestel), in Journal of Muslims in Europe, 7(1), 2018. 

“Veiled Nannies and Secular Futures in France”, Ethnos, 83(3): 544-566, 2017. 

'Gender, sex and religious freedom in the context of secular law', roundtable with Jacobsen, C.M., Fernando, M. & Jakobsen, J. Feminist Review (2016) 113: 93.

"Communicating Irregular Migration", American Behavioral Scientist, 59 (7) 2015: 886-897    

 “Perspectives on gender studies in Denmark, Norway and Sweden” (with Pauline Stoltz, Christine M. Jacobsen, Lena Gemzöe and Margaretha Fahlgren) Rita Bencivenga (ed.) in About Gender – International Journal of Gender Studies 4 (7), 2015

"Citoyen intolerable: tolerance, Islam et homosexualite" (with Randi E. Gressgård). Nordiques 2014 (28): 41-49

"‘Gaza in Oslo’: Social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth" (with Mette Andersson). In Ethnicities, 12(6), 2012: 821 - 843.

"Troublesome threesome. Feminism, anthropology and Muslim women's piety". Feminist Review, 98(1) 2011: 65-82.

"Islam and gender in Europe. Subjectivities, politics and piety (editorial)" (with Schirin Amir-Moazami and Maleiha Malik). Feminist Review, 98(1) 2011: 1-8.

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

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

“De l′immigrant au citoyen: la production de “musulmans norvégiens”?, Ethnologie Française 39(2) 2009: 229-239.

“Krevende toleranse. Islam og homoseksualitet”  (with Randi E. Gressgård), Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning 32(2) 2008: 22-40.

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

“Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young Muslims in Norway”, Nordic Journal of Religion and Society, 17(1) 2004: 5-28.

“Questions of Gender in a Multicultural Society” (with Randi E. Gressgård), Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research (NORA) 11(2) 2003: 69-77.

Book chapters

(With Marry-Anne Karlsen) "The Meanings of Chronopolitics and Temporal Awareness in Feminist Ethnographic Research". In Pluriversal Conversations on Transnational Feminisms: And Words Collide from a Place. Edited By Nina Lykke, Redi Koobak, Petra Bakos, Swati Arora, Kharnita Mohamed. Routledge: London and New York, 2023. 

‘They said wait, wait – and I waited’ The power chronographies of waiting for asylum in Marseille, France, in Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen and Shahram Khosravi (eds.) Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration. Routledge: London and New York, 2021.

'On Feminist Critique and How the Ontological Turn is Queering Anthropology' (m. Annelin Eriksen), in Paul Boyce, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco – (Eds.) Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern. Routledge: London and New York, 2019.

'The (In)egalitarian Dynamics of Gender Equality and Homotolerance in Contemporary Norway', in Bendixsen, Synnøve, Bringslid, Mary Bente og Vike, Halvard (eds.), Egalitarianism in Scandinavia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Palgrave, 2018.

'Begreper og perspektiver i forskning omkring irregulære migranter og velferd', in *Eksepsjonell velferd? Irregulære migranter i det norske velferdssamfunnet (Synnøve S.N. Bendixsen, Christine M. Jacobsen and Karl Harald Søvig). Oslo: Gyldendal akademiske, 2015   

(with Oddbjørn Leirvik) “Norway” in Jørgen S. Nielsen (ed.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Leiden: Brill, 2009, updated 2010, 2011, 2012. 2013.

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

(with Randi Gressgård) “Beyond ′Man′: In Defence of Multidimensional Identities”, in Yngve G. Lithman and Hakan G. Sicakkan (eds.) Envisioning Togetherness: Politics of Identity and Forms of Belonging. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

 “Religiosity of Young Muslims in Norway: the Quest for Authenticity”, in Jocelyne Cesari and Sean McLoughlin (eds.) European Muslims and the Secular State, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

 “Muslim GenDerations. Questions of Identity in the Return to Islam”. In Lithman, Y.G. and Andersson, M. (eds.) Youth, Otherness and the Plural City: Modes of Belonging and Social Life, Stockholm: Daidalos, 2005.

(with Randi Gressgård) “En kvinner er ikke bare en kvinne. Kjønnsproblematikk i et flerkulturelt samfunn”. In Cathrine Holst (red.) Kjønnsrettferdighet. Utfordringer for feministisk politikk. 1. utg. Makt- og demokratiutredningen, Oslo: Gyldendal Akademiske, 2002.

 

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Speculative Urban Futures: Inequality and Migration (Global Societal Challenges, GSU, UiB)

WAIT WAiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration (Research Council of Norway)

PROTECT: The Right to International Protection. A Pendulum between Globalization and Nativization? (EU, Horizon 2020)

Native/Immigrant/Refugee: Crossings (Peder Saether Grant)

New tools for transnational analysis in postgraduate intersectional gender research - Towards long-term international collaborations in Doctoral and Postdoctoral training (STINT)

Denaturalizing difference: Challenging the production of global social inequality (Research Council of Norway)

Migration and Health Project Southern Africa, Associate