About
Lena Magnusson Turner is a professor in urban and social geography. Her research focuses on residential mobility and life course, segregation and housing choice, geography and social justice and on urban and housing models.
In 1994, she completed her Ph.D. thesis in social and economic geography, about residential vacancy chain. Later she has been involved in research on housing careers and economic progress for immigrants, housing preferences and demand sensitive rent setting, social cohesion and poverty, household mobility on tight housing markets, conversion of public housing and residualisation on the housing market. Lena Magnusson Turner has been the Swedish partner in the project “Study on housing and exclusion: welfare policies, housing provision and labour market” financed by the European Commission, and member in the Nordic project “Nordic welfare states and the dynamics and effects of ethnic segregation” financed by NORFACE. Lena Magnusson Turner has been a member of the ENHR Coordination Committee since 2008. Since 2010, she works at NOVA, Oslo and Oslo University. At present she leads the research project ”Social Inequality and housing over the life course: good chances or lucky outcomes?” financed by the Research Council of Norway.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Quanitative research methods Housing market Demography Social inequalities Urban studies Cultural geography Urban governance
Research groups
Research projects
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A Fair Chance? How Geography Shapes Life Opportunities (FAIR)
The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.
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Social Inequality and Housing over the Life Course: Good Choices or Lucky Outcomes?
The project studies the interplay between housing and other dimensions of social inequality.
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Under Pressure? Migration and Labor Market Integration in Norway (UPMIN)
The overarching research question in the UPMIN project is: What institutional and contextual factors enhance immigrants’ and refugees’ employment participation?
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Ugreninov, Elisabeth; Magnusson Turner, Lena (2021). Next to Nothing: The Impact of the Norwegian Introduction Programme on Female Immigrants’ Labour Market Inclusion. Journal of Social Policy .
Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2020).
The migration pathway to economic mobility: Does gender matter?.
16 p.
Population, Space and Place
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81942
Sørvoll, Jardar; Nordvik, Viggo; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2020).
Bostedssegregasjon og politiske strategier. Erfaringer fra Norge og Oslo.
Samfundsøkonomen
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Vol. 38.
https://www.djoef-forlag.dk/openaccess/samf/samfdo...
Magnusson Turner, Lena; Östh, John (2020). Trap or opportunity—What role does geography play in the use of cash for childcare?. 15 p. Population, Space and Place .
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena (2019). Status Aversion, Attraction and Discrepancy as Drivers of Neighborhood Selection. City & Community .
Nordvik, Viggo; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Friedrichs, Jürgen (2019). Neighbourhood Poverty And Individual Earnings: Tales Of Two (Norwegian) Cities. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie . Vol. 111.
Magnusson Turner, Lena; Wessel, Terje
(2019).
Housing market filtering in the Oslo region:pro-market housing policies in a Nordic welfare state context.
International journal of housing policy
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/68581
Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Nordvik, Viggo
(2018).
Population dynamics and ethnic geographies in Oslo: the impact of migration and natural demographic change on ethnic composition and segregation.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
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Vol. 33.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/71317
Galster, George; Turner, Lena Magnusson (2017). Status discrepancy as a driver of residential mobility: Evidence from Oslo. Environment and planning A . Vol. 49.
Sandlie, Hans Christian; Turner, Lena Magnusson; Nordvik, Viggo (2016). Boligmarkeder og boligkarrierer. Frønes, Ivar; Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.). Det norske samfunn, bind 1.. Kapittel 8. p. 179-201. Gyldendal Akademisk.
