In her doctoral dissertation Cæcilie Svop Jensen explores how ongoing conflict in Somalia is experienced in the everyday lives of people of Somali background living in Denmark and Finland. The dissertation shows how transnational conflict dynamics are felt emotionally and bodily in daily life, and how these experiences are deeply entangled with racialisation, politics of exclusion, and questions of belonging in Nordic societies. By developing the concept of affective conflict transportation, the research reveals how diaspora spaces are continuously shaped and reshaped through everyday practices involving conflict mitigation and complex power relations. The findings challenge securitised views of diasporas and are relevant for researchers, policymakers, and the wider public concerned with migration, racialisation, and social cohesion.
The doctoral dissertation of MSSc Cæcilie Svop Jensen in the field of Peace and Conflict Research titled (Re)making Somali diaspora space in conflict: Affective conflict transportation, racialisation and everyday life in Denmark and Finland will be publicly examined at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University on 29 April 2026.
The Opponent will be Docent Liisa Laakso from the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden. The Custos will be Professor Élise Féron from the International Conflict Research Institute in Northern Ireland.