The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Kristine Krause is working towards a DPhil in Social Anthropology. Her thesis 'Migration and medical diversity' focuses on Ghanaian migrants in London and Berlin and how they deal with health problems. The project explores how legal status, social networks and religious belief play into health practices, and how sickness becomes an event in which political subjectivity and emotional belonging is articulated. In addition to her DPhil she works as a research fellow in a project on Transnational Religion funded by the German Research Foundation at the Humboldt University Berlin.

She is one of the editors of African Diaspora. Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global World http://www.brill.nl/afdi

She holds a Masters of Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in Social Anthropology and Religious Studies. Before embarking on her DPhil, she did Public Relations work for museums in Berlin and worked in home based health care projects. She has been awarded an ERSC centre linked scholarship.

Recent publications:

2010 (with Gertrud Hüwelmeier) Ed. Travelling spirits. Migrants, Markets and Mobilities. Routledge.

2008 Transnational therapy networks among Ghanaians in London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, special issue 'African<> European Linkages', edited by Ralph Grillo and Valentina Mazzucato, pp. 235-251.

2008 Spiritual spaces in post industrial places: Transnational churches in North East London. In: Michael Peter Smith and John Eade (Eds.): Transnational Ties: Cities, Identities, and Migrations, Comparative Urban and Community Research Book Series, Vol. 9. NJ: Transaction Publishers, pp.109-130.

2008 "Science Treats, but only God can Heal.” Medical Pluralism between Religion and the Secular in Ghana. In: Heike Bock, Jörg Feuchter and Michi Knecht (Eds.): Religion and its other: Secular and Sacral Concepts and Practices in Interaction. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, pp. 185-198.