Student migration between Greenland and Denmark and the formation of dominant positions

Department of Cultural & Social History invites to a public lecture with social geographer Marine Duc - titled "Student migration between Greenland and Denmark and the formation of dominant positions".

• Who chooses to study in Denmark and why?
• What are the students looking for?
• Who accompanies them on their journey?
• How are they changed by their experience, which often lasts for several years?

During the research for her doctoral thesis in geography and sociology, Marine Duc followed around fifty students on their journeys between Nuuk, Aarhus, and Copenhagen: sometimes they are perceived as elites, sometimes they are discriminated against, and experience being reduced to their Greenlandicness.

How does student migration between Greenland and Denmark bring along a change of social status for the one’s involved?

Marine Duc holds a PhD in social geography and is currently working as a research assistant (ATER) at Université Gustave Eiffel in France. Her work deals with racial inequalities in education. By employing feminist theory, theories on racial socialization, decolonial thinking and Bourdieuian sociology, she seeks to understand prevailing power relations inherited from colonialism within the Rigsfællesskab.