Cathrine Thorleifsson is a Researcher at the Centre for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, specializing in anthropological approaches to the study of nationalism, migration, borders and xenophobia. Her monograph, Nationalist responses to the crisis in Europe: old and new hatreds, appears in Routledge’s 2018 Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series.
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