Browsing Artikler / Articles by Subject "Norway"
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Called to being religious muslims: The religification of turkish women in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper describes the process of religification through which assumed religious affiliation, rather than other identifications, becomes the main category of identity that Norwegian society uses to identify Turkish women ... -
Challenges to Equality in the Welfare State: The Norwegian Case of Drammen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Integration of ethnic and cultural minorities and social equality are two important goals in Norwegian public policies. The school system is a major institution for inculcating values and identities and for developing ... -
Changes in work tasks and organization of general practice in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a comparative international study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic led to huge and rapid changes in general practice in Norway as in the rest of Europe. This paper aims to explore to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic changed the work tasks and organization ... -
Chaplaincy in Northern Europe : an overview from Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Chaplaincy in Norway has changed considerably from the 1950s. The number of chaplaincy positions has increased, although if it is seen on the background of expansion in healthcare and other public services, the increase ... -
Compass, continuity and change. Everyday religion among women living in asylum centers in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)When seeking asylum in Norway, asylum seekers are usually placed in asylum centers, where their everyday life is filled with uncertainty and few meaningful activities. Despite the importance of religion for many residents, ... -
Directing the legal radar at forced labour — Under special consideration of male victims in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Human trafficking in the form of labour exploitation appears to have gone under the legal radar domestically, regionally, and internationally, with ensuing grave consequences for the victims concerned. This paper critically ... -
Engaging with practice: Information literacy instruction as a part of developing reflective thinking and clinical judgement in nursing studies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines how nursing students in their final year use skills in information literacy (IL) in clinical placements when working on an assignment in evidence-based practice. The IL instruction and the assignment ... -
Expectations related to home-based telemonitoring of high-risk pregnancies: A qualitative study addressing healthcare providers' and users' views in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction: A pregnancy can be evaluated as high-risk for the woman and/or the fetus based on medical history and on previous or ongoing pregnancy characteristics. Monitoring high-risk pregnancies is crucial for early ... -
Exploring active ageing in a community-based living environment: an ethnographic study in the Western Norway context
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Age-friendly environments intend to promote active ageing by facilitating social, mental, and physical participation. This could potentially delay the onset of chronic complex conditions, enabling people to ... -
Fallen agents: negotiations of patient agency in Norwegian opioid substitution treatment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on an ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how patients in a Norwegian heroin-addiction treatment program negotiate their agency, navigating between policies, medical guidelines, and their own lived experiences ... -
From institutionalisation to citizenship: lessones learned from studying diaconal practice in a norwegian context
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article is based upon a historical study of a Norwegian diaconal foundation working in the field of disability care and welfare services. The article discusses how the foundation understood their mission and responded ... -
From precarious work to precarious social citizenship: Polish workers’ experiences with the identification number system in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In recent years, there has been growing interest in the proliferation, rescaling and internalisation of borders. EU citizens who come to work in Norway are registered either with a Fødselsnummer – an identification number ... -
Galt samme hva vi gjør? Staten og romanifolket/taterne
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Norge har et menneskerettsansvar for sine nasjonale minoriteter, og stilles til ansvar for sin politikk av to overvåkingskomiteer under Europarådet. Norges faktiske politikk overfor en av disse, romanifolket/taterne, er ... -
Living with multiple languages, being forced to be monolingual: Turkish skilled migrants in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Based on an analysis of 44 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Turkish skilled migrants living in/around Oslo and Drammen in Norway, this article aims to point out the tension between the monolingual emphasis of ... -
Norwegian teachers’ experiences with distance teaching and online schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In Mach 2020, the Norwegian schools were closed in response to Covid19. The current study concerns teachers’ experiences of distance teaching in April 2020 during the online schooling period in one Norwegian municipality. ... -
One step forward and two steps back: The role of civil society organizations in reversed integration processes among refugees in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Refugees settling in Norway experience several barriers to labour market integration, such as language insufficiency, low or unrecognised formal competence, and discrimination. While numerous scholars have dealt with the ... -
Polluting pharmaceutical atmospheres: Compulsion, resistance, and symbolism of buprenorphine in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article offers a counter narrative to the current ethnographic studies on treatment with buprenorphine, in which notions of promised and experienced normality dominate. In some countries, introduction of buprenorphine ... -
Postnatal depression is a Public Health nursing issue: perspectives from Norway and Ireland
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)The framework provided by the Millennium Development Goals includes maternal health as an area of priority. Postnatal depression (PND) is a serious public health issue because it occurs at a crucial time in a mothers’ life, ... -
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article discusses public social welfare provision to homeless EU migrants in Norway. Most of these migrants have no or weak affiliations with the formal labour market, resulting in restricted rights to public social ... -
Pregnant substance-abusing women in involuntary treatment: attachment experiences with the unborn child
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Use of coercion against pregnant women who misuse substances was legalised in Norway in 1996. The background for the law was that substance abuse during pregnancy represents a significant health problem for the child. ...