Dorothy Antwi Boasiako is a new PhD student at the Centre of African Studies
Dorothy graduated from the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2021 where she wrote her thesis on displacement and the construction, negotiation and navigation of masculinity of migrant Ghanaian men in Denmark.
She also graduated from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, in 2018 with an MA in Literature-in-English.
In 2022, she was employed as a Teaching Assistant the Centre of African studies to teach the course Religion and Development.
Her PhD project will focus on what Ghanaian migrant Pentecostal pastors in Denmark consider as their means of social mobility, identity formation and place making as they seek social and cultural recognition, while navigating both their economic precarity and the uncertainty regarding their legal statuses in Denmark. She aims to unpack the motivations behind Ghanaian migrant men becoming pastors in Denmark and explore what social, economic, and cultural concerns influence such decisions, while looking at the performative and expressive aspects of their calling and vocation.