Browsing ODA Open Digital Archive by Author "Gubrium, Erika"
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Activating the person in the changing situation: A dynamic analytical approach to labour activation
Hansen, Helle Cathrine; Gubrium, Erika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)For several decades, the turn towards labour activation has dominated European social work and social work institutions. While social work research and practice focused on labour activation have long considered “the person ... -
Caste – the actual cost of empowerment? : Dalit women & NREGA - a study of the poverty, social exclusion & shame nexus
Singh, Ashish Kumar (Master thesis, 2012)This thesis seeks to examine the lives of rural Dalit women in private as well as public spheres. A theoretical framework of poverty, shame and social exclusion has been used to explore the objectives. The study goes further ... -
Disabled education? : a study concerning young adults with physical disabilities and their experiences with school in Livingstone, Zambia
Madsø, Siv-Hege (Master thesis, 2013)There are about one billion people living with a disability in the world today. In Zambia, this number might be closer to two million. People with disabilities in the global South are almost always less likely to be in ... -
Family Planning Services in Rural Areas of province Punjab, Pakistan
Obaid, Anum (Master thesis, 2018)The population of Pakistan is growing everyday as the fertility rate is at second position among South-Asian countries (Ali, Azmat and Hamza 2018, 2). Pakistan is the second most populous Muslim country in the world after ... -
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in Cameroon and the fight to reduce malaria related under-five mortality
Bandolo, Fondib Modestus Ngwa (Master thesis, 2012)A review of how the HIPC Initiative has translated in fight against under-5 mortality due to malaria in Cameroon has yet to be presented in published literature despite considerable documentation on HIPC Initiative. This ... -
Helhetlig oppfølging av lavinntektsfamilier
Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira; Fossestøl, Knut; Rugkåsa, Marianne; Tøge, Anne Grete; Gyüre, Krisztina; Gubrium, Erika (AFI Rapport 2016:11, Research report, 2016)Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus evaluerer Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratets (AVdir) satsing for å prøve ut en helhetlig oppfølgingsmodell for lavinntektsfamilier (HOLF-modellen) i NAV. I HOLF-modellen arbeider familiekoordinatorene ... -
“If you look at me, you would think that I am a normal woman. However, I am almost like a pharmacy.” : a phenomenological study of nine immigrant women’s life experiences and understanding of chronic musculoskeletal pain
Nyen, Siri (Master thesis, 2013)This study utilized a phenomenological hermeneutical approach exploring the illness beliefs and the lived experiences of nine non-Western immigrant women with chronic pain living in Oslo, Norway. The background for this ... -
Immigration and Work Integration of US- Americans in Norway
Boysen, Amanda Erika (Master thesis, 2019)The aim of this study was to uncover the ways in which US- American immigrants to Norway experience the integration and immigration process, particularly in the domain of employment. I collected stories from informants ... -
Integration and Social Cohesion through Activation: Asian Immigrant Women in the Norwegian Labor Market
Henriksen, Metuselah Mendoza (Master thesis, 2019)This thesis aims to explore and gain in-depth insights into the everyday lives of six Asian immigrant women based on their perspectives. Everyday life perspectives provide a new way of understanding one own's personal ... -
“It Seemed Like Forever!” Shrinking Spaces of Conviviality at the Border of Norway and Russia
Gubrium, Erika; Aasland, Aadne; Lindskog, Benedikte V; López Arteaga, Erika Garcia; Mikheev, Igor (Journal of Borderlands Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)“Conviviality” is a useful term for exploring interactions and relationships taking place between different groups of people. While conviviality may arise through everyday processes, rhythms, and senses of belonging, it ... -
“It’s My Luggage that I Can’t Drop”: Russian Women Negotiating Transnational Lives in the Changing Norwegian Borderland
Arteaga, Erika Gabriela López (Master thesis, 2023)This article-based thesis presents the lived experiences of seven Russian women, inhabitants of the Norwegian border town of Kirkenes, in a changing context six months after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. A ... -
Masculinity through the Lens of the Introduction Program among Ethiopian Immigrant Men in Oslo: Work Inclusion
Sherif, Akil Ahmed (Master thesis, 2019)Norwegian Introduction Program has been studied and understood fairly from the perspective of the female migrant. However, it is less understood how experience and perception of masculinity in an intersection with class ... -
Moving forward, waiting or standing still? Service users' experiences from a Norwegian labour activation programme
Hansen, Helle Cathrine; Gubrium, Erika (European Journal of Social Work;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-23)Labour activation policy relies on a notion of temporal homogeneity, with the assumption that the service user, once enrolled in a labour activation programme, moves forward on a linear and progressive trajectory into the ... -
Norwegian labour activation: Building or limiting social citizenship for service users far from the labour market?
Hansen, Helle Cathrine; Gubrium, Erika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)This chapter takes a close look at activation policy to explore the extent to which it supports or limits social citizenship for service users far from the labour market. In Norway, as in other European countries, employment ... -
Participant Engagement in Supported Employment: A Systematic Scoping Review
Khoronzhevych, Mariya; Maximova-Mentzoni, Tatiana; Gubrium, Erika; Muller, Ashley Elizabeth (Journal of occupational rehabilitation;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06-04)Purpose This study aimed to synthesise the available knowledge on how participant engagement in supported employment (SE) interventions is presented, defined, and conceptualised. We also aimed to develop a working definition ... -
Personalisation of Employment Oriented Interventions Targeting Immigrant Jobseekers in NAV
Khoronzhevych, Mariya (OsloMet Avhandling;2024 nr 21, Doctoral thesis, 2024)The increasing global mobility has made the integration of immigrants into labour markets a key focus in social work research and policy. However, despite Norway's well-established welfare system and employment interventions, ... -
Policing Norwegian Welfare: Disciplining and Differentiating within the Bottom Rungs
Gubrium, Erika (Social Inclusion;2(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Policing is a disciplining means for using welfare services to govern welfare recipients towards a desired behaviour or goal. We apply Foucault’s (1977) definition of institutional discipline as a means for exploring how ... -
Poverty, shame and the class journey in public imagination
Gubrium, Erika (Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-07-15)Bringing together social science and literary sensibilities, this article employs a focused content analysis of the texts of three influential Norwegian novels for their personal portrayal of the relationship between ... -
Researcher linguistic vulnerability: A note on methodological implications
Muller, Ashley; Gubrium, Erika (Qualitative Health Research;2015, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)We reflect on the experiences of a researcher conducting a pilot exercise project with marginalized research participants within the substance use disorder treatment field, in a language that was nonnative to her. While ... -
Taking Time Seriously: Biographical Circumstance and Immigrant Labor Integration Experience
Gubrium, Erika; Leirvik, Mariann Stærkebye (Journal of International Migration and Integration;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-18)The article offers a re-conceptualization of the labor integration process which takes temporality into account as a relevant feature that, rather than following patterned frames of reference, is actively referenced through ...