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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Objective: This paper assesses the much-disputed relationship between family policy and fertility, and cash transfers and fertility in particular. Methods: We take advantage of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2009)
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Can Policies Stall the Fertility Fall? A Systematic Review of the (Quasi‐) Experimental Literature (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the course of the twentieth century, social scientists and policy analysts have produced a large volume of literature on whether policies boost fertility. This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article engages with occupational aspirations of highly educated refugees with the aim to explore how their social positions of being highly educated and a refugee inform their aspirations. It does so by drawing on ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)This study explores how the implementation and distribution of solar energy in rural India, in the form of a public-private partnership, has brought changes to the everyday lives of people, with an emphasis on women and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article focuses on the social aspects of climate change and explores the interrelationship between belief systems and adaptation. The links and interaction between external and internal realities are examined from the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract Low fertility and childlessness have been largely interpreted as being driven by the same mechanisms, although they may be qualitatively different phenomena. The present article discusses this assumption and studies ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)A centre for Asian and intercontinental immigration and export-oriented production, Guangzhou city is at the forefront of China’s global interactions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines informal governance ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Many states have recently re-discovered citizenship deprivation as a tool to exclude undesirable citizens. Scholars have primarily discussed the implications of this policy (re)turn from perspective of the state and the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract For decades, fraud-based denaturalization was hardly used in Norway. In the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis,” however, the right-wing government decided to reinforce efforts to expose “citizenship cheaters.” This article ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)The thesis submitted by Marcin Sliwa is an ethnographic study of the relationship between uncertainty and informality as they are expressed in urban planning. Based on physical and digital fieldworks in informal settlements ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)The author argues that recent attempts to build a domestic workers’ movement in Indonesia can be understood as an ongoing and non-linear process driven by claims for industrial citizenship. Thomas Humphrey Marshall’s concept ...
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Clashing Values: Supranational Identities, Geopolitical Rivalry and Europe’s Growing Cultural Divide (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Soon after the collapse of Soviet-type communism in Central and Eastern Europe, a new geopolitical division began to reshape the continent. Our study demonstrates that this newly emerging geopolitical divide has been ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this chapter we focus on the notion of homology, understood as a systematic correspondence between social structures. We discuss and empirically assess a specific hypothesis forwarded in Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Global value chains (GVCs) hold important potential for transformations to sustainability in a context of climate change. Yet, their potential for sustainability may depend on whether, and how, promising individual innovations ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)How different groups perceive climate-related problems and changes is of growing interest in research and practice, especially in relation to the adaptation of vulnerable communities to climate change. However, research ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The use of e-cigarettes is increasing, a practice denoted as vaping. We explore user motives, self-identity as vapers and involvement in vaping subcultures, drawing on sociological theory of stigma, subcultures and symbolic ...