Emy Lindberg
Affiliated Researcher at Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology; Affiliated
- E-mail:
- emy.lindberg@antro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Thunbergsvägen 3 H
- Postal address:
- Box 631
751 26 Uppsala
Short presentation
Hi! I am an anthropologist focusing on migration and globalization. I am currently involved in a project on solidarity and undocumented migrants in Sweden. My PhD thesis (2024) explores football migration between Ghana and Sweden. I examine themes such as dreams and aspirations, time, transnational family structures, racialization, postcolonial dynamics, gender, and the political economy of the global football industry.
Keywords
- sweden
- west africa
- family and kinship studies
- ethnography
- migration
- temporality
- masculinities
- sports
- ghana
- football
- labor migration
- aspiration
- dreams

Publications
Selection of publications
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Dream Machine: an Ethnography of Football Migration between Ghana and Sweden
2023
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Youth and the labour market in Liberia: on history, state structures and spheres of informalities
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Illicit Flows and African Security
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Commanders for good and bad: alternative post-war reconstruction and ex-commanders in Liberia
2014
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War in Mali: background study and annotated bibliography. July 2012 - March 2013
2013
Recent publications
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Race on and off the field: Ghanaian footballers in Sweden
Part of Ethnic and Racial Studies, p. 1-20, 2025
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Dream Machine: an Ethnography of Football Migration between Ghana and Sweden
2023
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Youth and the labour market in Liberia: on history, state structures and spheres of informalities
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Illicit Flows and African Security
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Commanders for good and bad: alternative post-war reconstruction and ex-commanders in Liberia
2014
All publications
Articles in journal
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Race on and off the field: Ghanaian footballers in Sweden
Part of Ethnic and Racial Studies, p. 1-20, 2025
Books
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Youth and the labour market in Liberia: on history, state structures and spheres of informalities
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
Collections (editor)
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Illicit Flows and African Security
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014