Affiliation with AMID
PhD Candidate
AMID PhD project

Curriculum Vitae
1980: Student from the Gymnasium of Holstebro with a Social Science specialisation.

1983: Student at the University of Aarhus: Studies of Social Anthropology and Ethnography.

1984: Student at the University of Aarhus: Studies of Music

1995: Master of Social Anthropology, Department of Ethnography and Social Anthropology of Moesgård, Aarhus University and Music, Aarhus University. Master thesis: Cultural Identity formation amongst Turkish Immigrant in Denmark.

1996: Assistant teacher at the University of Aarhus: "Globalisation and Cultural complexity"

1996-1999: Assistant teacher at the Institute of Anthropology, Copenhagen University teaching the following subjects:

1996: Regional course: Globalisation and Complexity and European supranational, national and regional identities and immigrants in Europe.
1997: Course and Complexity and Developmental Studies
1998: -''-
1999: -"-

1997: Local governmental project: Report: "Bilingual Arabic pre-school children and language-training. "(Fredensborg-Humlebaek Kommune 1999)

1999-2000: Teacher at CIS, Copenhagen International School in Social Anthropology.

2001: Teacher at HIS, Hoersholm International School, Denmark.

2001- : Ph.D. candidate, The Academy for Migrations Studies in Denmark (AMID), Aalborg University.

Projects and research interests

Immigrant Youth and Streetlife: Social exclusion and social youth strategies in a local community in Denmark (PhD project):

• Immigrant youth and social strategies in coping with social exclusion in suburban environments
• Youth and cultural lifestyles, street life and global hip hop expressive culture
• Ethnicity and gender
• Youth delinquency related to migration processes

Other areas of interests
European and regional identities:

• Immigrants in Europe
• Ethnicity in Northern Ireland

Publications in the field of Migration Studies (2003)

Sune Qvortrup Jensen& Kirsten Hviid (2003), 'Rap and Social Work', Social Kritik. Narayana Press (forthcoming article on street youth and social work)

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