Research areas
- China's economy
- Global value chains
- International migration and mobility
- China-Africa
- Informal economy
- The Beijing Olympics
Background
Professor, Human Geography, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (2026-dd)
Professor, China Studies, Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo (2021-2026)
Associate Professor, China Studies, Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo (2018-2021)
Postdoctoral fellow with teaching responsibilities, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (2013-2018)
PhD scholar with teaching responsibilities, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo (2008-2013)
Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Officer, United Nations World Food Programme West Africa Regional Bureau in Dakar (2006-2008)
Senior Executive Officer, Department of Research, Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (2004-2006).
Professional service
Chair, National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH), 2022–2025; member 2018–2021. Board member, Afro-Sino Centre of International Relations (ASCIR). Steering group member, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network, 2011–2020. Expert evaluator, European Commission Horizon 2020 MSCA proposals, 2017–present. Board member, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, 2016; Deputy Board member, University of Oslo, 2014–2015. President, Nordic Association for China Studies, 2009–2011; board member 2011–2013.
Teaching
Tags:
China,
Chinese economy,
global value chains,
economic geography,
informal economy,
international migration and mobility
Publications
Fagfellevurderte artikler og bokkapitler
Haugen, H. Ø. & Wang Bingyu eds. (2025) Handbook on Migration to China. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
Haugen, H. Ø. (2025). From Political Resource to Political Liability? International Student Mobilization in China. PS: Political Science & Politics 58 (3): 550-555.
Haugen, H. Ø. & Wang Bingyu (2025) Introduction to Handbook on Migration to China. In Haugen, H. Ø. & Wang Bingyu (eds.) Handbook on Migration to China. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1–22.
Haugen, H. Ø. (2025) Involuntary immobility in migration to China. In Haugen, H. Ø. & Wang Bingyu (eds.) Handbook on Migration to China. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 369–385.
Tjønndal, A., & Haugen, H. Ø. (2024) Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration. International Review for the Sociology of Sport (online first). https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902241247579
Haugen H. Ø. and Obeng M.K.M. (2024) Supply-chain Disruptions under COVID: A Window of Opportunity for Local Producers? Forum for Development Studies, 51(1), 165–187.
Haugen, H. Ø. (2024) Yuko Aoyama: Curiosity as Method. In: Contemporary Economic Geographies. Inspiring, Critical and Plural Perspectives. Bristol University Press 2024 ISBN 978-1529220568. pp. 89-100.
Haugen, H. Ø. & A. Tjønndal (2023). Winter Olympic Dreams and Foreign Friends. Made in China Journal. ISSN 2206-9119. 8(1), p. 62–67.
Haugen, H. Ø. and Huang, Guangzhi (2023) Becoming sanfei: the irregularization of foreign migrants in China. In Research Handbook on Irregular Migration, 238-48. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Braun, L. N. & Haugen, H. Ø. (2023) The Weight Women Carry: Research on the Visible and Invisible Baggage in Suitcase Trade between China and Africa, The Professional Geographer, 75 (1), 138-144.
Haugen, H. Ø. (2022). The Love Child and the State: Transnational Family Formation in Guangzhou, NAN NÜ, 24(1), 134-160.
Ma, Xinrong & Haugen, H. Ø. (2022): How ethnicity matters in labour studies: harnessing ethnic marginality in Chinese manufacturing, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48:19, 4712-4729.
Haugen, H. Ø. & Speelman, T. China’s Rapid Development Has Transformed Its Migration Trends, Migration Information Source, January 28, 2022.
Haugen, H. Ø. & Skilbrei, M.-L. (2021) Håndbok i forskningsetikk og databehandling, Oslo, Fagbokforlaget.
Haugen, H. Ø. (2021) 'Leaving on a strong passport: State protection of Chinese workers in Africa and beyond', International Migration, 59, 255-58.
Haugen, H. Ø., & Lehmann, A. (2020). Adverse articulation: Third countries in China–Australia student migration during COVID-19. Dialogues in Human Geography, 10 (2), 169–173.
Carling, Jørgen, and Heidi Østbø Haugen (2020) Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies:1-18. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739385.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2019) The social production of container space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(5):868-885.
Dong, Niu & Heidi Østbø Haugen (2019) Social workers in China: Professional identity in the making. British Journal of Social Work, 49(7):1932-1949. Free access link.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2018) The unmaking of a commodity: Intermediation and the entanglement of power cables in Nigeria. Environment and Planning A, 50(6): 1295-1313.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2018) China‒Africa exports: Governance through mobility and sojourning. Journal of Contemporary Asia 49(2):294-312.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2018) Residence Registration in China’s Immigration Control: Africans in Guangzhou. In Lehmann, A. & P. Leonard Destination China. Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era. Palgrave Macmillan: Heidelberg: pp. 45-64.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2018) Petty commodities, serious business: The governance of fashion jewelry chains between China and Ghana. Global Networks, 18(2):307-325.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2018) From Pioneers to Professionals: African Brokers in a Maturing Chinese Marketplace. African Studies Quarterly, 17(4): 45-62.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2017) Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China. In Hodgson, D.L. & J. Byfield (eds.) Global Africa. University of California Press, Oakland: 183-192.
Haugen, H.Ø. & A. Tollefsen (2017) Samfunnsgeografiske metoder. In Lier, D.J. (ed.) Samfunnsgeografi. En innføring. Cappelen Damm, Oslo: 63-72.
Knutsen, H.M. & Haugen, H.Ø. Utvikling i globale verdikjeder og produksjonsnettverk. In Lier, D.J. (ed.) Samfunnsgeografi. En innføring. Cappelen Damm, Oslo: 95-108.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2017) Prospective moments, eternal salvation: The production of hope in Nigerian Pentecostal churches in China. In Kleist, N and D Thorsen (eds) Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration. New York: Routledge: 94-112.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2015) ‘Destination China: The Country Adjusts to its New Migration Reality’. Migration Information Source, March 4.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2014) 'Take Over Asia for God!’: The Public Face of African Pentecostal Churches in China. In Adogame, Afe (ed) The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora. Imagining the Religious 'Other'. Ashgate, Surrey: 105-124. ISBN: 978-1-4724-2010-7
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2013) 'African Pentecostal Migrants in China: Marginalization and the Alternative Geography of a Mission Theology'. African Studies Review 56(1):81-102. Full text (pdf). Reprinted with the permission of ©African Studies Association (original link).
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2013) ‘China’s recruitment of African university students: Policy efficacy and unintended outcomes’. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 11(3): pp 315-334. Link.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2012). ‘Nigerians in China: A Second State of Immobility’. International Migration 50(2): pp 65-80. (Free online access within institutions in the developing world through the OARE initiative).
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2012). Hvorfor er Kina i Afrika? In Torgeir E. Sæveraas (ed.) Etter Afghanistan - Ny strategisk virkelighet? Luftkrigsskolens skriftserie vol. 25. Tapir Akademisk forlag, pp 69-80. ISBN 9788251928717.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2011). Chinese Exports to Africa: Competition, Complementarity and Cooperation between Micro-Level Actors. Forum for Development Studies 38(2), pp 157-176 . Full text.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2008). “A Very Natural Choice”: The Construction of Beijing as an Olympic City during the Bid Period. In Monroe, Price & Daniel, Dayan (ed.), Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the new China. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-047-207-0329. Chapter 5, pp 145-162.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Carling, Jørgen (2008). Mixed fates of a popular minority: Chinese migrants in Cape Verde. In Chris, Alden; Ricardo, Soares de Oliveira & Daniel, Large (ed.), China Returns to Africa: A rising power and a Continent Embrace. C. Hurst & Co. ISBN 978-1850658863. Chapter 16, pp 319 - 338
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2005). Time and Space in Beijing’s Olympic Bid. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 59(3), pp 217- 227
Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Carling, Jørgen (2005). On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city , Vol. 28, No. 4 July 2005 pp. 639-662.. Ethnic and Racial Studies 28(4), pp 639- 662
Oversatte arbeider
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2016) 尼日利亚人在中国:第二次固定性状态 (Nigerians in China: A Second State of Immobility). Li Zhigang (ed.) 广州国际移民区的社会空间景观 (The social landscape of Guangzhou’s immigrant neighborhoods). Guangzhou: Southeast University Press (Revised and translated version of my article in International Migration.)
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2016) Migrants pentecôtistes africaines en Chine: la marginalisation et d'autres géographies d'une théologie de la mission In : N. Khouri and D. Malaquais, eds. Afrique-Asie. Arts, espaces, pratiques. Rouen: Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, pp 127-144. (Translated version of my article in African Studies Review.)
Haugen, Heidi Østbø (2016) Il reclutamento degli studenti universitari africani verso la Cina. In Mondo Cinese. 158(1):171-182. (Revised and translated version of my article in Globalisation, Societies, and Education.)
Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Jørgen Calring (2016) Sie wagen und gewinnen. Chinesische Händler in Afrika”. Der Überblick (Germany). 41(4): 19–23. (Revised and translated version of my co-authored article in Ethnic and Racial Studies.)
Bokanmeldelser
Alpes, Maybritt Jill (2017) "Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at Any Cost". New York: Routledge. Book note in Journal of Peace Research (2017). Lenke.
Wyatt, Don J. (2009) "The Blacks of Premodern China (Encounters with Asia)". Philadeplhia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Book review in Journal of Asian and African Studies (2011) 46(6) pp 691-692. Lenke.
Marshall, Ruth (2009) "Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria". Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Book note in Journal of Peace Research (2011) 48(5) pp. 686-686. Lenke.
Brautigam, Deborah (2009) "The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa". Oxford: Oxford University Press. Book note in Journal of Peace Research (2010) 47(4) pp. 512-512. Lenke.
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