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Academic disciplines
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Subjects
Migration and family, Migration and health, Transnational migration, Work migration.Projects
Doing Family across Borders: A Comparative Study of Work, Family and Welfare Strategies among Polish Migrants in Norway, Sweden, and the UK (FAMAC)
Between ambitions and realities. Aspirations of and actual integration on the labour market among newly arrived refugees (MAVI)
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Academic chapter/article/Conference paper (4)
- Academic anthology/Conference proceedings (2)
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Academic article (6)
Narrativer om plassering og posisjonering blant polske migranter med høyere utdanning på det europeiske arbeidsmarkedet
2020, Norsk sosiologisk tidsskriftAbuse or Underuse? Polish Migrants' Narratives of (Not) Claiming Social Benefits in the UK in Times of Brexit
2019, Central and Eastern European Migration Review‘They assume dirty kids means happy kids’. Polish female migrants on being a mother in Norway
2016, Miscellanea Anthropologica et SociologicaParcours et projets des migrants subsahariens en Espagne
2010, Hommes et migrationsLa figure du migrant commercant à Salamanque
2009, Migrations SocietéMigrant entrepreneurship in a Spanish inland city: Between the formal and the informal economies
2007, Journal of Mediterranean Studies - Popular scientific lecture (2)
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Textbook (1)
Internasjonal migrasjon. En samfunnsvitenskapelig innføring
2018, Fagbokforlaget - Lecture (1)
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Academic lecture (7)
Researching transnational migration: French and Norwegian perspectives
2016Re-thinking parenting among Polish migrants in Norway
2015Migration and motherhood. Polish female migrants on being a mother and a woman in Norway
2015Migrants dans une ville espagnole: entre ancrage, circulation et passage
2009Les initiatives commerciales des migrants dans un quartier espagnol: Garrido Norte à Salamanque
2008Los migrantes senegaleses en Salamanca: trayectorias migratorias y estrategias de movilidad social
2007 -
Report (3)
PAR Migration Navigator (WLB_GE). Socio-cultural and Psychological Predictors of Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality. Cross-Cultural Comparison of Polish and Norwegian Families. All WPs Report
2016, Universitetet i GdanskMinoritetsfamiliers tanker om og erfaringer med familierådgivning innad i og utenfor familien
2015, Misjonshøgskolens forlagAfghans and early childhood education in Norway. A pilot project
2013, Misjonshøgskolens forlag -
Academic monograph (1)
Migrants dans la ville : une étude socio-anthropologique des mobilités migrantes en Espagne
2013, Editions Modulaires Europeennes -
Editorial (1)
Migrations dans les pays nordiques
2010, e-migrinter -
Book review (2)
2010, Anaïk Pian, Aux nouvelles frontières de l’Europe. L’aventure incertaine des Sénégalais au Maroc, Paris, La Dispute
2010, e-migrinter2008, Thomas Lacroix, Les réseaux marocains du développement. Géographie du transnational et politique du territorial, Paris, Les Presses de Sciences Po
2008, e-migrinter - Poster (2)
Background
Gunhild Odden holds a PhD in Sociology and a Master's degree in International Migration and Interethnic Relations from the University of Poitiers in France. She has also studied at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Gunhild has been employed as a researcher at SIK since 2010 and has been the director since 2015. Her research and teaching activities relate to migration and intercultural relations. Her PhD dissertation looked at how migrants invest and shape urban space, through, for example, informal and formal economic activity, in parallel with maintaining ties to the country of origin and, thus, creating transnational spaces. The dissertation is based on a social anthropological fieldwork consisting of interviews and observation over several years. In recent times, Gunhild has researched Afghan and Polish migrant families in the Norwegian welfare state and conflict resolution among minority families. In the period 2016-2019, she is leading the project "Doing Family across Borders: A Comparative Study of Work, Family and Welfare Strategies among Polish Migrants in Norway, Sweden, and the UK", funded by the Research Council of Norway. Gunhild is also the author of the Norwegian book "Introduction to International Migration" (Internasjonal migrasjon. En samfunnsvitenskapelig innføring), that was published in 2018
Keywords
- Migration and health
- Migration and family
- Work migration
- Transnational migration