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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HOUSINGWEL – Centre for Housing and Welfare Research
HOUSINGWEL aims to be a hub for research on housing and welfare in Norway.
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Possible consequences of moving patterns for people who have been granted a start-up loan in Oslo municipality
The project examines who the initial loan recipients were and are in Oslo, and what the consequences of selective relocation are for districts and sub-districts in Oslo.
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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
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Santiago, Anna Maria
(2022).
Decomposing educational disparities between immigrants and natives in Oslo: how gender, parents, and place matter.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2096578
Sandlie, Hans Christian; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Nordvik, Viggo (2022). Boligmarkeder og boligkarrierer. Frønes, Ivar; Kjølsrød, Lise (Ed.). Det norske samfunn - Bind 3. p. 243-268. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Santiago, Anna Maria
(2021).
Neighbourhood selection by natives and immigrants: Homophily or limited spatial search?.
Housing Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2014415
Ugreninov, Elisabeth; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2021).
Next to Nothing: The Impact of the Norwegian Introduction Programme on Female Immigrants’ Labour Market Inclusion.
21 p.
Journal of Social Policy.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942100043X
Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2020).
The migration pathway to economic mobility: Does gender matter?.
16 p.
Population, Space and Place.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2419
Sørvoll, Jardar; Nordvik, Viggo; Magnusson Turner, Lena (2020). Bostedssegregasjon og politiske strategier. Erfaringer fra Norge og Oslo. Samfundsøkonomen. 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.
https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2296
Magnusson Turner, Lena; Wessel, Terje
(2019).
Housing market filtering in the Oslo region:pro-market housing policies in a Nordic welfare state context.
26 p.
International journal of housing policy.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2018.1540740
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2019).
Status Aversion, Attraction and Discrepancy as Drivers
of Neighborhood Selection.
City & Community.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12435
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.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12370
