Ulike måter å «sikre sted»: flyktningers fortellinger om integrering inn i et lokalsamfunn i Sør-Norge

Haaland, Hanne; Magnussen, May-Linda; Wallevik, Hege; Frykman, Maja Povrzanović

doi:10.18261/9788215042961-2021-08

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“…Moreover, possibilities for inclusion can also be positively or negatively affected by gender, age, health and so on, depending on the municipalities’ population composition, services and needs. For example, parents with small children often have access to more arenas for meeting locals and a broader motivation for engaging with the local community where their children grow up (Haaland et al., 2021). Work opportunities tend to outweigh other barriers, and studies have underlined the importance of opportunities in local labour markets for refugees’ likelihood of staying in rural areas in longer term perspectives (Fang et al., 2018).…”

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Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural

Sætermo,

Kristensen

2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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Settlement of refugees in rural areas in Norway is part of a national strategy to counter depopulation and thus links to ideas of revitalization and more promising futures for these areas. It also links up to an idea of smaller communities as ‘better at integrating’, as smaller communities both enable and necessitate more contact between the original population and newcomers. However, although some municipalities reap advantages of the dispersed settlement policy and succeed in retaining settled refugees, other municipalities ‘fail’. This article explores how the integration of refugees in rural communities is interpreted by public integration workers in two rural–coastal municipalities where the outcomes differ significantly. Drawing on 15 qualitative interviews, we discuss how integration workers make sense of local integration efforts, and how notions of the rural are (re)produced through their integration narratives. The analysis finds that the integration narratives draw on and reproduce both distinct and overlapping imaginaries of rural areas. We identify two main imaginaries: the rural as future‐oriented and dynamic, and the rural as close‐knit and peaceful.

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Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural

Sætermo,

Kristensen

2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Safia, som flyktet fra Afghanistan til Norge som ung voksen, fortalte at hun var «veldig svak» og «trengte mye hjelp» da hun kom hit, slik også Angelique nevnte. Etter en stund ble hun imidlertid oppmerksom på at hun ikke hadde noen venner -at hun ikke «betydde noe for noen», men at alle de «norske» hun interagerte med, fikk penger for å ha med henne å gjøre, eller gjorde det som en del av et frivillig arbeid (Haaland, Magnussen, Wallevik & Frykman, 2021). Hun ble også oppmerksom på at alle disse var middelaldrende og eldre kvinner som oppførte seg som mødre overfor henne.…”

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“…Forskningen vår tyder også på at de flyktningene som anses som mest like de profesjonelle eller frivillige selv, ofte anses som de mest «ansettbare»/«integrerbare», og ofte ser ut til å forstås som «idealflyktninger». I forskningen vår ser vi mange tegn til at deres måte å «integrere» seg på løftes frem og idealiseres, mens andre flyktningers erfaringer, situasjoner, ressurser og måter å få et godt liv i Norge på, usynliggjøres eller blir forstått som feil (Haaland & Wallevik, 2017;Haaland, Magnussen, Wallevik & Frykman, 2021).…”

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“…Når det er sagt, viser forskningen vår at muslimske kvinners religiøse bekledning ikke alltid fører til at de kategoriseres på måtene vi har nevnt over. Kvinner som bruker hijab, men som på andre måter fremstår som like den hvite, norske middelklassen, kategoriseres ikke nødvendigvis slik (Haaland & Wallevik, 2017;Haaland, Magnussen, Wallevik & Frykman, 2021).…”

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2023

Utenforskap, Stigmatisering Og Fremmedfrykt På Agder: 1860 Til I Dag

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Utenforskap, stigmatisering og fremmedfrykt på Agder: 1860 til i dag

2023

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This study, based on financial records, investigates the care of the «destitute insane» in the Lister and Mandal region (now Agder) between 1860 and 1882.In 1848 Norway's first mental health act was passed, initiated by Dr. Herman Wedel Major. He had identified 4290 insane persons in Norway, of which 3939 were also destitute. Only 147 public «beds» were available for this group in Norway, most of which could be described more accurately as «cages» or «cells». Some in the group suffered from illnesses like Huntington's and epilepsy. However, «mentally ill» is an anachronistic term, so the contemporary word «insane» (sindssyg) is applied. Using historical empathy when investigating these stories is necessary, as many contemporary practices were not rooted in malice but rather desperation.The 1848 law gave the district doctors authority to assess and modify care practices for the insane in private housing. The early public initiatives were optimistic and progressive, based on a belief that 80 % could be cured at asylums (1855). Of the 98 insane persons from the Lister and Mandal region who were sent to asylums, only 5 were cured; such experiences disproved the optimistic cure-rate. High costs made asylum treatment an option mostly reserved for severe cases that local citizens could not, or would not, care for. Thus, asylums filled up with «unreturnable», uncurably, insane persons. As a result, 70 % of the region' s insane persons were housed privately in their home villages, of which 23 % were kept restrained, locked in, or put in straitjackets. Still, minor improvements due to the district doctors' new authority occurred. Some patients were moved from unheated barns to proper housing, and others had chains replaced with ropes. But most importantly this group' s stories were documented in detail in the county' s financial records, which have enabled this research and generated new knowledge about Norwegian psychiatric history.

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Ulike måter å «sikre sted»: flyktningers fortellinger om integrering inn i et lokalsamfunn i Sør-Norge

Cited by 4 publications

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Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural

Personal, peaceful, progressive: Integration workers’ narratives of refugee settlement and the rural

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