Sara Lei Sparre

Senior Researcher

Key Expertise:

  • Care,
  • Immigrants,
  • Working conditions,
  • Professionals,
  • Inequality and social heritage,
  • Municipalities and regions
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Selected research projects

Project
1. APR 2023 — 30. SEP 2024
  • Labour Market
  • The Elderly

MIGSOSU-projektet

Project
1. MAR 2024 — 30. SEP 2027
  • The Elderly

Pårørendes livskvalitet og deltagelse

Project
1. SEP 2024 — 31. DEC 2026
  • Labour Market
  • The Elderly

Fastholdelse af sundhedsprofessionelle seniorer

Project
1. AUG 2026 — 30. SEP 2029
  • The Elderly
  • Labour Market
  • Management and implementation

Tværfagligt forskningsprojekt skaber ny viden om inklusion af udenlandske medarbejdere i ældreplejen

Publications

Scientific articles

Scientific article
15. MAY 2026
  • Health Care
  • The Elderly

Sparre, S. L., & Nielsen, S. H. (2026). Care (Mis)match: Arranging “Good” Care Relations for Multilingual Care Work Trainees in Denmark. Medical anthropology, 45(3), 166–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2655769

Scientific article
30. OCT 2025

Sparre, S. L., & Nielsen, S. H. (2025). Contingent on paradoxical policies: Migrants’ trajectories towards permanent residence and skilled care work in Denmark. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), 51(13), 3243–3261. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2419966

Scientific article
3. DEC 2024
  • Health Care
  • The Elderly
  • Children, Adolescents and Families

Andersen, R. S., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., & Sparre, S. L. (2024). Introduktion. Omsorg i forandring: Omsorgens relationer. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 41, 5-17. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v23i41.151718

Scientific article
25. NOV 2024
  • The Elderly
  • Health Care
  • Labour Market

Sparre, S. L., Winkler, A., & Andersen, L. S. (2024). Omsorgsarbejde på trods: Modsatrettede krav og moralsk arbejde i ældreplejen. Tidsskrift for arbejdsliv, 26(3), 30-46. https://tidsskrift.dk/tidsskrift-for-arbejdsliv/article/view/151519

Scientific article
25. JUN 2024
  • The Elderly
  • Health Care
  • Daycare, school and education

Nielsen, S. H., & Sparre, S. L. (2024). Rum til omsorgens sprog: Flersprogethed og ældrepleje i Danmark. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 40, 68-88. https://tidsskrift.dk/sygdomogsamfund/article/view/136237/190234

Scientific article
2023

Rytter, M., Ismail, A. M., & Sparre, S. L. (2023). Food as care and friction in late life: Marginalization of Muslim immigrant families in the Danish welfare state. Food, Culture and Society, 26(2), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1963925

Scientific article
MAY 2022

Rytter, M., & Sparre, S. L. (2022). Silence agreements in Danish elderly care: Phantasmatic asymmetry between care managers and self-appointed helpers with a Muslim immigrant background. Genealogy, 6(46). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020046

Scientific article
DEC 2021

Rytter, M., Ismail, A. M., & Sparre, S. L. (2021). Alderdom, mad og omsorg: Et ulighedsskabende friktionsfelt mellem kommuner og etniske minoritetsfamilier. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund, 18(35), 115-138. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfss.v18i35.129996

Scientific article
OCT 2021

Sparre, S. L. (2021). Gendered care, empathy and un/doing difference in the Danish welfare state: care managers approaching female caregivers of older immigrants. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 29(4), 248-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2021.1978541

Scientific article
JUN 2021

Sparre, S. L. (2021). (In)visibility and the Muslim other: Narratives of flight and religious identity among Iraqi Christians in Denmark. Ethnicities, 21(3), 589-610. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796820949279

Scientific article
APR 2021

Sparre, S. L., & Galal, L. P. (2021). Domestication of difference: Practices of Civic Engagement among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark. Mashreq and Majar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, 8(1), 103-126. https://doi.org/10.24847/v8i12020.287

Scientific article
2021

Sparre, S. L., & Rytter, M. (2021). Between care and contract: Ageing Muslim immigrants, self-appointed helpers and ambiguous belonging in the Danish welfare state. Anthropology and Aging, 42(1), 112-128. https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2021.279

Scientific article
NOV 2019
  • The Elderly

Sparre, S. L., & Rytter, M. (2019). ’Selvudpegede hjælpere’ som omsorgsgivere for plejekrævende ældre indvandrere og flygtninge. Tidsskriftet Gerontologi, 35(2), 26-32.

Scientific article
NOV 2019

Sparre, S. L. (2019). Helligt kød: Religiøsitet og materialitet i frivilligt arbejde blandt unge muslimer i Kairo. Jordens Folk, (2), 39-51.

Scientific article
2018

Sparre, S. L., & Galal, L. P. (2018). Incense and holy bread: The sense of belonging through ritual among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 44(16 (1)), 2649-2666. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1389029

Scientific article
2018

Sparre, S. L. (2018). Experimenting with alternative futures in Cairo: young Muslim volunteers between god and the nation. Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power, 25(2), 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2017.1400276

Scientific article
NOV 2016

Sparre, S. L. (2016). (U)synlighed og den muslimske anden: Narrativer om flugt og religiøs identitet blandt irakiske kristne i Danmark. Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 10(1), 252-267.

Scientific article
2016

Galal, L. P., Hunter, A., McCallum, F., Sparre, S. L., & Wozniak, M. (2016). Middle Eastern Christian spaces in Europe: Multi-sited and super-diverse. Journal of Religion in Europe, 8(3-4), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-00901002

Scientific article
2014

Galal, L. P., & Sparre, S. L. (2014). At finde sin kirke: Om kristne med mellemøstlig baggrund i Danmark. Tidsskrift om Islam og Kristendom, 19-29.

Scientific article
MAR 2008

Sparre, S. L. (2008). Educated women in Syria: Servants of the state, or nurturers of the family? Middle East Critique, 17(1), 3-30.

Reports

Report
9. APR 2026
  • Labour Market
  • Health Care
  • The Elderly

Sparre, S. L., Rosenberg, A. W., & Andersen, L. S. (2026). Udenlandskfødte seniormedarbejdere i ældreplejen: Barrierer og potentialer for fortsat beskæftigelse. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd.

Mini report
17. FEB 2025
  • Labour Market
  • Health Care
  • The Elderly

Sparre, S. L., & Sørensen, J. K. (2025, Feb 17). Dansk som andetsprog i sundheds- og omsorgsarbejde: Udfordringer og potentialer. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Notat

Report
31. AUG 2024

Sparre, S. L., Nielsen, S. H., Fredslund, J., Bertram-Larsen, P., Bæk, L. K., & Sørensen, J. K. (2024). Fra migrant til SOSU-aspirant: Uddannelse og rekruttering af herboende migranter til ældreplejen - eleverfaringer, indsatser og SOSU Appen. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. https://ebooks.au.dk/aul/catalog/book/535

Report
15. DEC 2023
  • The Elderly

Andersen, L. S., Topholm, E. H.-E., & Sparre, S. L. (2023). Uformel omsorg til hjemmeboende ældre: Et afgrænset kvalitativt litteraturstudie. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Rapport

Report
30. OCT 2023
  • Labour Market
  • The Elderly
  • Health Care

Sparre, S. L., Winkler, A., Andersen, L. S., & Jensen, M. C. F. (2023). Når arbejdet udmatter: En litteraturbaseret og kvalitativ undersøgelse af omsorgstræthed som fænomen i ældreplejen. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. VIVE Rapport

Books and book contributions

Book contribution
17. AUG 2023

Sparre, S. L., & Nielsen, S. H. (2023). I praktik for en bedre fremtid?: SOSU-uddannelse og usikkerhed blandt flygtninge og migranter. In M. Rytter, S.-L. J. Mortensen, S. Bregnbæk, & Z. Whyte (Eds.), Paradigmeskiftets konsekvenser: Flygtninge, stat og civilsamfund (pp. 281-302). Aarhus Universitetsforlag. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5590545.16

Book
NOV 2021
  • The Elderly
  • Labour Market
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector

Rytter, M., Sparre, S. L., Ismail, A. M., & Liversage, A. (2021). Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier https://unipress.dk/udgivelser/m/minoritetsældre-og-selvudpegede-hjælpere/

Book
NOV 2021
  • The Elderly
  • Labour Market
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector

Rytter, M., Sparre, S. L., Ismail, A. M., & Liversage, A. (2021). Minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: kommunal velfærd og omsorg i forandring. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. Antropologiske Studier https://unipress.dk/udgivelser/m/minoritetsældre-og-selvudpegede-hjælpere/

Book contribution
SEP 2019

Sparre, S. L. (2019). Experimenting with alternative futures in Cairo: young Muslim volunteers between God and the nation. In O. Salemink, S. Bregnbæk, & D. Vesalainen Hirslund (Eds.), young Muslim volunteers between God and the nation (pp. 34-51). Routledge.

Book contribution
JAN 2019

Sparre, S. L. (2019). Educated hope in Cairo. In J. N. Dorio, E. D. Abdou, & N. Moheyeldine (Eds.), The formation of Young Muslim Citizens (pp. 77-90). Routledge.

Book contribution
2019

Sparre, S. L., & Galal, L. P. (2019). Routes to Christianity and religious belonging among Middle Eastern Christians in Denmark. In M. Juul Petersen, & S. Jensen (Eds.), Faith in the system? (pp. 41-52). Aalborg Universitetsforlag.

Book contribution
2016

Galal, L. P., & Sparre, S. L. (2016). Kirkens hjemliggørelse. In A. Aschim, O. Hovdelien, & H. K. Sødal (Eds.), Mellemøstlige kristne i Danmark (pp. 52-67). Portal Forlag.

Book
2015

Sparre, S. L., Hunter, A., Jørgensen, A. R., Galal, L. P., McCallum, F., & Wozniak-Bobinska, M. (2015). Middle Eastern Christians in Europe: Histories, Cultures and Communities. University of St Andrews.

Book
FEB 2014

Jung, D., Petersen, M. J., & Sparre, S. L. (2014). Politics of modern muslim subjectivities: Islam, youth, and activism in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan. The Modern Muslim world https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380654

Book
2013

Sparre, S. L. (2013). A generation in the making: The formation of young Muslim volunteers in Cairo. University of Copenhagen.

Conference contributions and working papers

Working paper
12. MAR 2026

Ballegaard, S. A., Gupta, N. D., Lopes, A. F. F., Sharp, P., Sparre, S. L., & Vázquez-Castillo, P. (2026). Færre unge, flere ældre: På afgrundens rand? Syddansk Universitet. Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG)

Working paper
17. FEB 2021

Sparre, S. L. (2021, Feb 17). Futures won and lost: personal hopes, utopian aspirations and post-revolutionary disappointment among young Muslim volunteers in Cairo. Routledge.

Working paper
2012

Sparre, S. L. (2012). Resala - a Message about giving: Charity, youth volunteerism and an emerging imaginary of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press.

Debate contribution

Debate contribution
NOV 2023

Rytter, M., Sparre, S. L., Ismail, A. M., & Liversage, A. (2023). Når du kun har en hammer, ligner alt et søm: Replik til essay "Omsorg og social kontrol: paragraf 94-ordningen under behandling. Dansk sociologi, 34(2), 119-129.

Magazines and booklets

Knowledge booklet
29. AUG 2024
  • Labour Market
  • The Elderly

Sparre, S. L., Nielsen, S. H., & Sørensen, J. K. (2024, Aug 29). Rekruttering og uddannelse af herboende migranter til ældreplejen: Praksis, SOSU Appen og anbefalinger . VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. Videnshæfte https://ebooks.au.dk/aul/catalog/book/535

Knowledge booklet
17. MAR 2021
  • The Elderly
  • Management and implementation
  • The Social Sector

Sparre, S. L., Rytter, M., Ismail, A. M., & Liversage, A. (2021, Mar 17). Etniske minoritetsældre og selvudpegede hjælpere: Praksis og anbefalinger. VIVE - Det Nationale Forsknings- og Analysecenter for Velfærd. Videnshæfte https://issuu.com/vive.dk/docs/100697_etniske_minioritets_ldre_og_selvudpegede_hj

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