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Gunhild Odden

Gunhild Odden

vice-rector for research
Strategic Centres of Research

Contact

E-mail

gunhild.odden@vid.no

Phone

+47 51 51 62 78

City

Campus

Stavanger

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Subject area

Academic disciplines

Social sciences

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)

  • Academic article (6)

    Narrativer om plassering og posisjonering blant polske migranter med høyere utdanning på det europeiske arbeidsmarkedet
    2020, Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift

    Abuse 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 Sociologica

    Parcours et projets des migrants subsahariens en Espagne
    2010, Hommes et migrations

    La figure du migrant commercant à Salamanque
    2009, Migrations Societé

    Migrant entrepreneurship in a Spanish inland city: Between the formal and the informal economies
    2007, Journal of Mediterranean Studies

  • Academic chapter/article/Conference paper (3)

    Likeverdige tjenester? Sykepleieres møte med gravide innvandrerkvinner med ekstrem svangerskapskvalme
    2019

    Changing country, changing gender roles: Migration to Norway and the transformation of gender roles among Polish families
    2018

    Le phénomène des enfants ex-soldats
    2013

  • Popular scientific lecture (2)

    Internasjonal migrasjon. Hva, hvem, hvor og hvorfor?
    2018

    Hva er migrasjon? Myter og fakta
    2017

  • Textbook (1)

    Internasjonal migrasjon. En samfunnsvitenskapelig innføring
    2018, Fagbokforlaget

  • Lecture (1)

    Minoritetsfamiliers møte med det offentlige tjenestetilbudet i Norge
    2017

  • Academic lecture (7)

    Researching transnational migration: French and Norwegian perspectives
    2016

    Re-thinking parenting among Polish migrants in Norway
    2015

    Migration and motherhood. Polish female migrants on being a mother and a woman in Norway
    2015

    Migrants dans une ville espagnole: entre ancrage, circulation et passage
    2009

    Migrants in the city: being there, going where? Activities, projects and mobility of the migrants in Salamanca, Spain
    2008

    Les initiatives commerciales des migrants dans un quartier espagnol: Garrido Norte à Salamanque
    2008

    Los 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 Gdansk

    Minoritetsfamiliers tanker om og erfaringer med familierådgivning innad i og utenfor familien
    2015, Misjonshøgskolens forlag

    Afghans and early childhood education in Norway. A pilot project
    2013, Misjonshøgskolens forlag

  • Academic anthology/Conference proceedings (1)

    Filles ex-soldats du Congo: la route cahoteuse de la réintégration
    2013, L'Harmattan

  • 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-migrinter

    2008, 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)

    La migration irrégulière entre l’Afrique et l’Espagne
    2009

    L’expérience migratoire des Sénégalais venus par voie maritime en Espagne
    2008

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

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