The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a postdoctoral position in international migration studies from 1 January 2026.
The position is a fixed-term position for 24 months.
The postdoc will be based at the Institute’s interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS). We seek a strong candidate with a dynamic profile in the broad, international field of migration studies, who can document an impressive track record of humanities and/or social science research on questions relating to the topics described in the REGENDERING research project below.
The postdoctoral position is part of the research project REGENDERING, financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, studying the changes in gender norms and practices among Ukrainian women displaced without male kin in Denmark after the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Investigating the growing phenomenon of “feminized displacement” (women fleeing without men) to the EU, this project focuses on gender by following Ukrainian women’s re-settlement in Denmark, studying how they re-establish everyday structures, create possibilities, and orient themselves toward the future through relations with kin (family and acquaintances) and through encountering Danish institutions locally and Ukrainian institutions transnationally. The project aims to develop a novel analytical framework to understand processes of “re-gendering,” combining concepts on the re-making of life after war, relatedness with kin, institutions and the state, and intersectionality.
The postdoc project focuses on women displaced with children and applies qualitative, visual and ethnographic methods in studying their everyday life, local and transnational relations and encounters with the Danish welfare state (Work-package 2).
In two other sub-studies of the larger research project, the focus is on gender norms and practices among Ukrainian women displaced without children and welfare state actors, working with displaced Ukrainian women.
Last day to apply: 7 September 2025