Berit Helene Vandsemb

Scientific publications

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2014). Gender, Work and Social Change: Return Migration to Kerala. Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Waldrop, Anne (Ed.). Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India. p. 75-88. Anthem Press.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2014). Spontaneous Frontier Migration in Sri Lanka: Conflict and Cooperation in State-Migrant Relations. Brun, Cathrine; Blaikie, Piers; Jones, Michael (Ed.). Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change. p. 269-285. Ashgate.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1997). Spontaneous rural migration in Sri Lanka - the migrants and the determinants of migration. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 51.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1995). The Place of Narrative in the Study of Third World Migration. The Case of Spontaneous Rural Migration in Sri Lanka. Professional Geographer. Vol. 47.

Storm-Furru, Inger; Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1989). Agricultural intensification in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. Impacts on farming practices, welfare and women's work. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 43.

Research reports

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2007). Making a place and (re)constructing a life. The role of gender in spontaneous frontier migration to Tanamalwila, Sri Lanka. ISBN: 978-82-471-0590-0. 302 p. NTNU.

Rhedding-Jones, Jeanette; Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2002). Girls at school: a qualitative review in Bangladesh: final review of Female Secondary Education Stipend Project (FESP) phase 2 (NORAD). ISBN: 82-579-4173-5. 183 p. Oslo University College.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2001). Evaluative study on socio-economic impact of the Female Secondary Education Stipend Programme Phase 1 in Bangladesh. Report on the finalisation of the study 19th - 30th November. 4 p. LINS. Høgskolen i Oslo.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2000). Evaluative study on socio-economic impact of the Female Secondary Education Stipend Programme Phase 1 in Bangladesh. Report on the preparatory stage of the study 14th - 24th August. 5 p. LINS, Høgskolen i Oslo.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1998). A report from the annual review mission on Lok Jumbish 1998. A joint review mission team from Sida, Government of India, Government of Rajasthan and NORAD. 23 p. LINS, Høgskolen i Oslo.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1995). Fieldwork in develoment research - meeting with different social and cultural groups. 9 p. Geografisk institutt, Universitetet i Trondheim.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1995). Utviklingsgeografi og fagidentitet. 18 p. Geografisk institutt, Universitetet i Trondheim.

Dissemination

Vandsemb, Berit Helene ; Gule, Lars ; Bjørnsen, Gunn (2016). Trenger vi grenser? Stand om migrasjon, multikulturelle samfunn og ekstremisme. Forskningstorget i Oslo 2016. Universitetsalliansen Oslo.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2013). Befolkning og utvikling. Eriksen, Tore Linné; Feldberg, Karen B. (Ed.). Utvikling. En innføring i utviklingsstudier. p. 187-211. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2013). Return migration of women domestic workers to Kerala, India. Urbanization and migration in transnational India: Work and family life from a welfare perspective. SASNET, NCI and ISEC.

Ellingsen, Winfried; Vandsemb, Berit Helene ; Silva, Kalinga Tudor (2012). Livelihoods in a conflict setting: A case study of the ethnically bordered agricultural villages in Ampara District, Sri Lanka. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 66.

Fortuijn, Joos Droogleever; Vandsemb, Berit Helene ; Baudouin, Axel (2011). From rice barn to remittances: A study of poverty and livelihood changes in System H of the Accelerated Mahaweli Development Project. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 65.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (2010). Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered. 1 p. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. Vol. 64.
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Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1996). Narratives in migration research. The case of rural migration in Sri Lanka. Nasjonalt forskerkurs i geografi. Geografisk institutt, Universitetet i Trondheim.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1995). Rural migration and gender relations in Sri Lanka. Perspectives on social structure in Asia. NIAS.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1993). Spontaneous rural in-migration in Sri Lanka: the attraction of Tanamalwila and migrants' choice of destination. Workshop at Dept. of Geography, University of Peradeniya.

Vandsemb, Berit Helene (1993). The place of narrative in migration studies. Nordisk konferanse i utviklingsgeografi.