Projects

Ongoing

• Discourses of Integration and the Making of Immigrant Subject.  (Banafsheh Ranji). Postdoctoral project, NTNU. 
• Media representations of immigrants and their impact on integration (Banafsheh Ranji)
• Register-data based studies on mobility studies (Arild Blekesaune).
• Register-data based studies on mobility and immigration (Marie Holm Slettebak). Postdoktorprosjekt, NTNU. 
• Revisiting local communities (Mariann Villa). Strategic research funding, ISS (Småforsk).
• The Multiethnic Rural Community (Mariann Villa)
• War’s Edges: local communities, mobility and long shadows of the history Jakub Stachowski - NTNU 
• Asylum in Practice: Protection and Control of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in Norway in their Asylum-Seeking phase – a Study of Excerpts from the Norwegian Asylum System. (Aurora Terjesdatter Sørsveen) PhD project.   
• Mobility Lab in Trondheim: Urban communities and local mobility (Marius G. Vigen). PhD-project 

Finalized

• The Nordic labour market and platform-mediated gig work: Segmented work in the Norwegian cleaning industry (Erik T. Valestrand). PhD-prosjekt, NTNU. 
• GLARUS 2017-2022

Selected publications

• Strabac, Zan; Valenta, Marko; Bell, David Andreas. (2024) Public attitudes towards immigrants: A curious case of Croatia. International migration
• Svaboe, Gunnhild Beate Antonsen; Blekesaune, Arild; Tørset, Trude. (2023) Understanding skepticism of smartphones in travel behavior research: A qualitative approach. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (TRIP)
• Sørsveen, Aurora Terjesdatter. (2024) Forestillinger om de andre i norske landinformasjonsdokumenter. Cappelen Damm Akademisk
• Bjørkhaug, Hilde; Brobakk, Jostein Tapper. (2024) Exceptional policies for exceptional situations? How COVID-19 revealed persisting precarity for seasonal migrant workers. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
• Sæther, Inga; Stachowski, Jakub. (2024) Mind the recognition gaps: layers of invisibility of farm migration in Norway. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Slettebak, Marie Holm. (2020) Labour migration and increasing inequality in Norway. Acta Sociologica
• Archetti, Cristina; Ranji, Banafsheh. (2024) “I Feel It in My Body, in My Soul, in My Mind”: Journalism, Racist News and Immigrants’ Experience of Belonging. Journalism Studies
• Magin, Melanie Andrea; Kösters, Raphael; Jandura, Olaf; Weiß, Ralph; Stark, Birgit; Udris, Linards. (2025) Viewpoint diversity, balance, deliberativeness: Assessing the media performance of migration coverage multi-dimensionally based on deliberative democratic theories. Mass Communication & Society
• Villa, M., Valestrand, E.T., Rye, J.F., red. (2023) Migrasjon og mobilitet – handlinger, mønstre og forståelser i norsk sammenheng. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
• Rye, J.F., O'Reilly, K., eds. (2021) International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions. Routledge.

Dissemination

Ranji, Banafsheh (2024) Racist Narratives and (Not) Feeling at Home in Norway, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 21 November 2024, organized by UiO Cristina Archetti og NTNU Banafsheh Ranji.

Banafsheh, R. (2024) A performance on news, immigration, belonging with Cristina Archetti (UiO) and Banafsheh Ranji (NTNU) with the collaboration of Mehda Zolfaqari.

Stachowski, J. (2023). International migration and rural areas- continuity, change and future prospects. XXIX European Society for Rural Sociology Congress. Crises and futures of rural areas. Plenary lecture. Rennes, France, July 3-7.