Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway. Krohn-Hansen is currently the department’s Vice Chair and Head of the doctoral program. He also is a member of the steering committee of the interdisciplinary research area Livelihoods in Developing Countries (LEVE) at the university and a member of the advisory board of Ethnos. Krohn-Hansen’s research interests include the anthropology of politics, economic anthropology, urban ethnography, and regional and international migration and span the Caribbean, Latin America, and New York. He has performed long-term fieldwork in the southwestern Dominican Republic in close proximity to the border with Haiti, and in northeastern Colombia.