Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad"
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Ambivalent recognition: young unaccompanied refugees’ encounters with Norwegian society
Johansen, Kristina; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Receiving the right to stay in Norway might seem a critical factor for refugees’ well-being and belonging. Yet, this research shows that young unaccompanied refugees experience ambivalent feelings towards Norwegian society ... -
Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Hviding, Edvard (Book; Peer reviewed, 2021) -
The Care/Security Nexus of the Humanitarian Border: Assisted Return in Norway
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-25)While Assisted Return and deportation are frequently viewed as two different return policies, the first represented as humanitarian and the latter as enforcement, this article argues that there is a continuum between these ... -
Creating a future while waiting for a residence permit: temporary and irregular migrants in informal social infrastructures
Näre, Lena; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Maury, Olivia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we analyse how temporary and irregular migrants resist bureaucratically induced waiting for decisions on their residence permit applications in the unknown future [l’avénir] by engaging with the present. ... -
Differentiation of rights in the Norwegian welfare state: Hierarchies of belonging and humanitarian exceptionalism
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08-30)Controlling mobility and borders has become a central, defining feature of the state today. Using the Norwegian welfare state as a case study, I argue that the differentiation of rights depending on status categories is ... -
Existential Displacement: Health Care and Embodied Un/Belonging of Irregular Migrants in Norway
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in Oslo and Bergen, Norway, this article discusses irregular migrants’ experiences of existential displacement and the tactics they use to try to re-establish a sense of emplacement and ... -
Great expectations: Migrant parents and parent-school cooperation in Norway
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Danielsen, Hilde (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)One long-standing characteristic of schools in Norway is inclusive education as a primary goal. The last years, the Norwegian government has emphasised increased parent-school cooperation as a way to limit risks, i.e. of ... -
“It was really helpful for me, and at the same time it was really tough”: a qualitative study among Afghan peer refugee helpers in Greece
Lavdas, Michalis; Sandal, Gro Mjeldheim; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Background Aid workers with a refugee background are increasingly engaged in the humanitarian field. These individuals, known as peer refugee helpers (PRHs), contribute to providing psychosocial support for other refugees. ... -
Mia Finrud di Tota: Italienske mosaikker. Going Native – en reise i tid som antropolog og emigrant. Rånåsfoss: Svein Sandnes Ltd 2021, ISBN: 9788292945513
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article, 2023) -
The "Nordic Model" in the Middle East Oil Fields: How Shareholder Value Eclipses Corporate Responsibility.
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Chapter, 2023) -
Notes on a more equitable higher education
Näre, Lena; Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad (Journal article, 2021) -
The temporality of humanitarianism: Provincializing everyday volunteer practices at European borders
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Sandberg, Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)While recognizing that ‘volunteering for refugees’ is entangled in ethical and political power dimensions, this article will discuss how we can ethnographically explore the everyday humanitarian practices of volunteers as ...