Everyday living with unstable work among migrant women in Norway

This research project explores the everyday living experiences of migrant women in Norway in situations where work is unstable. The focus is on how women describe and experience their daily lives, including routines, relationships, health, and future considerations, in relation to work and migration.

The project examines how instability in work is lived and felt in everyday life, and how it intersects with other aspects of living such as care responsibilities, social relations, and wellbeing. Rather than treating work as a separate or abstract category, the study attends to how work-related instability is woven into daily life and embodied experience, as articulated by the women themselves.

The study uses qualitative and participatory methods, including conversational interviews and optional art-based and embodied approaches such as drawing, storytelling, and body mapping. The project is informed by a decolonial perspective that centres dignity, care, and relational ways of living, and takes seriously knowledge that emerges through embodied, emotional, and relational experiences.

By foregrounding participants’ own accounts and forms of expression, the project contributes to research on migration, gender, and everyday life, offering grounded insights into how migrant women live with and make sense of instability in their everyday worlds.

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• Migration and Mobility
• Gender and Inequality