About
Ingrid Smette is a researcher at NOVA, section for research on childhood, family and child welfare. Her research interests are parenthood and childhood in a culturally diverse welfare state. She has recently completed a postdoctoral project at the University of Oslo on parenting ideals and practices in the second generation. She is currently working on several projects on how the welfare state's institutions deal with families who, for religious/cultural reasons, impose restrictions on their children’s participation on different arenas. She holds a PhD in social anthropology (2015) from UiO and works mainly with qualitative methods.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Migration Youth Education Familylife, parenting, child-care Students with minority background Youth, gender, violence High School Social control Sexual violence Authonomy Majority-minority relations Secondary school
Research groups
Research projects
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Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
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Inequality in Youth – A Qualitative, Longitudinal Research Database
Inequality in youth is a qualitative, longitudinal research database on youths in Norway, intended to be a parallel to the quantitative Ungdata surveys.
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Norwegian Schools’ Experiences with and Handling of Exemptions and Absences on Religious Grounds
In this project, we aim to investigate how schools handle requests for exemption from teaching and school activities based on religion and life stance.
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Parenting in Ethnic and Religious Minority Contexts in Norway
The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge about different forms of parenthood that co-exist in Norway, based on parents’ own perspectives.
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Restrictions and violations of rights in religious communities: A qualitative study of the experiences of (former) members and help services
This project will investigate restrictions and rights violations children; young people and adults may be exposed as members of religious communities that are understood as closed.
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
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Tomorrow’s Inequalities in the Making: Processes of Life Chance Differentiation within and outside of Education (LIFECHANCES)
In LIFECHANCES we investigate how differences between young people may become inequalities in life chances over time.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Smette, Ingrid; Aarset, Monica Five
(2023).
Parenting in the second generation. The changing family figurations of descendants of Pakistani, Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants in Norway.
24 p.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2232454
Smette, Ingrid; Eriksen, Ingunn Marie (2023). From Gendered Borderwork to Ethnic Boundaries: The Case of Two Norwegian Schools. Oeur, Freeden Blume; Pascoe, C. J. (Ed.). Gender replay: On kids, school and feminism. New York University Press.
Østby, Lene; Stefansen, Kari; Smette, Ingrid
(2022).
Overgrepsutsattes erfaringer med spesialiserte lavterskeltilbud: Symbolsk anerkjennelse, solidariske fellesskap.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
Vol. Årgang 25.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfv.25.1.3
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie; Stefansen, Kari; Smette, Ingrid
(2022).
Inequalities in the making: the role of young people’s relational resources through the COVID-19 lockdown.
Journal of Youth Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2022.2144716
Smette, Ingrid; Hegna, Kristinn
(2021).
Selvbestemmelse og selvregulering: Nye elevidealer for ungdomsskolen.
Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
UNGDOMMEN. p. 113-134.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.142...
Smette, Ingrid; Hyggen, Christer; Bredal, Anja
(2021).
Foreldrerestriksjoner blant minoritetsungdom: omfang og mønstre i og utenfor skolen.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.
Vol. 62.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2021-01-01
Strandbu, Åse; Stefansen, Kari; Smette, Ingrid; Seippel, Ørnulf
(2021).
Ungdomsidrettens spenninger.
Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
UNGDOMMEN. p. 135-152.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.142...
Rosten, Monika Grønli; Smette, Ingrid
(2021).
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslims girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control.
16 p.
Journal of Youth Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1981841
Aarset, Monica Five; Smette, Ingrid; Rosten, Monika
(2021).
Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway.
Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir; Takle, Marianne; Britt, Slagsvold (Ed.).
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. p. 79-95.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129592-5
Andersen, Patrick Lie; Smette, Ingrid; Bredal, Anja
(2020).
Ungdoms voldsutsatthet og foreldres landbakgrunn.
Bredal, Anja; Eggebø, Helga; Eriksen, Astrid (Ed.).
Vold i nære relasjoner i et mangfoldig Norge. p. 167-195.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81154
