About
Marianne Rugkåsa is a proffesor in social work. She is trained as a social worker and holds a Ph. D. in social anthropology. She has conducted research on migrant integration into the Norwegian welfare state in a social work context since 2007. She has also conducted research on child welfare with minority ethnic families, child poverty and children in foster care; a minority ethnic perspective has been a central dimension in all her work. Rugkåsa has extensive experience in employing ethnographic research methods, including fieldwork and qualitative interviews. She is engaged in antiracist social work.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Bekken, Wenche
;
Rugkåsa, Marianne
(2024).
Liminalitet og appropriering: Antropologiske blikk på sosialt arbeid.
14 p.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nat.35.1.4
Fernandes, Ariana Guilherme ; Rugkåsa, Marianne (2023). Antirasistisk sosialt arbeid. ISBN: 9788205564633. 198 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Buzungu, Hilde Fiva
;
Rugkåsa, Marianne
(2023).
Lost in culture: Language discordance and culturalization in social work with migrants.
Nordic Social Work Research.
https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2023.2216707
Bergheim, Berit
;
Rugkåsa, Marianne
(2022).
Sosialt arbeid i Nav. Erfaringer fra intervensjonen helhetlig oppfølging av lavinntektsfamilier (Holf prosjektet).
14 p.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfv.25.2.5
Rugkåsa, Marianne (2021). Fattigdom blant minoritetsetniske familier i Norge. Berg, Berit; Paulsen, Veronika (Ed.). Møter mellom minoriteter og barnevernet. p. 172-185. Universitetsforlaget.
Ylvisaker, Signe
;
Rugkåsa, Marianne
(2021).
Dilemmas and conflicting pressures in social work practice.
European Journal of Social Work.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1954884
Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira
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Tøge, Anne Grete
;
Rugkåsa, Marianne
;
Bergheim, Berit
(2021).
The child perspective within family intervention projects: a cluster-randomised study with a mixed methods design.
13 p.
European Journal of Social Work.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2021.1977247
Rugkåsa, Marianne
;
Bergheim, Berit
(2020).
Betydningen av barns deltakelse i bekjempelse av fattigdom.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.0809-2052-2020-03-01
Ylvisaker, Signe ; Rugkåsa, Marianne (2020). Krysspress. Dilemmaer i sosialt arbeid i velferdsstaten. ISBN: 9788205518391. 176 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Rugkåsa, Marianne
;
Ylvisaker, Signe
(2019).
From culturalisation to complexity – a critical view on the cultural competence discourse in social work.
9 p.
Nordic Social Work Research.
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.1080/2156857X.2019.1690558
