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Marthe Handå Myhre

Marthe Handå Myhre

Job title
  • Senior Researcher
Visiting address
  • Holbergs gate 1, 0166 Oslo
  • Office number: HG464
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 957 96 608
  • Office: +47 672 36 987
E-mail
  • marthehanda.myhre@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Marthe Handå Myhre is a social scientist who specializes in Russia and Ukraine. Marthe has researched Russian migration and citizenship policies and the relationship between state and society in Russia. In 2018 – 2021 she worked on the ARDU project, which looked at the interplay between ethnicity, language and regional/local identity in the context of political reform in Ukraine. In particular, Marthe studied language policy and legislative changes that affected the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools. From 2020 to 2023 she was a postdoctoral fellow on the PRORUSS project, which studied the potential for Russian soft power in Europe. Marthe has been and continues to be involved in several projects on the integration of Ukrainian refugees in Norway and other Nordic countries. Her research interests include nation building, nationalism, migration and citizenship. She is one of the coordinators UKRAINETT – the Norwegian network for research on Ukraine (uni.oslomet.no/ukrainett/), and is a member of the editorial board of the Scandinavian-language journal Nordisk Østforum (tidsskriftet-nof.no/index.php/noros).

Field of study

Migration   Nation-Building   Citizenship   Language policy

Research groups

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Completed research projects

  • Private accommodation as an alternative during the influx of Ukrainian refugees (PRIVATBO)

    During the refugee influx from Ukraine from 2022 and onwards, the number of refugees staying outside reception centers before settlement in Norwegian municipalities increased significantly compared to previous years. This project aims to gain more knowledge about how IMDi and the municipalities' follow-up these refugees and how the refugees have experienced staying in private accommodation before settlement.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Holm-Hansen, Jørn ; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Aasland, Aadne (2025). "Ukraina – hva bør vites?". Nordisk Østforum. Vol. 39.

Kaczmarska, Katarzyna; Busygina, Irina; Holm-Hansen, Jørn ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). State populism in Russia in a time of war: Examining discourses on ‘anti-Russian’ sanctions. British Journal of Politics & International Relations.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481241309245

Hernes, Vilde ; Aasland, Aadne ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2024). Where does the future lie? Initial aspirations for return among newly arrived Ukrainian refugees in Norway. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2383729

Aasland, Aadne ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2024). Nordmenns syn på Russland, russere og norsk russlandspolitikk: Betydningen av nærhet til grensen. Nordisk Østforum. Vol. 38.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noros.v38.6543

Godzimirski, Jakub M.; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Onderco, Michal (2024). Caught in the liberal pragmatic trap? How political parties viewed energy dependence on Russia in three European countries 2012–2022. Journal of Eurasian Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665241253281

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel (2024). ‘Antigenderism’ as Russian Soft Power? Comparing Discourse on Sexual and Gender Minorities in Russia and Norway. Europe-Asia Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2024.2382738

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Muradyan, Olena; Nehaenko, Oksana (2023). ОСВІТНЯ РЕФОРМА ТА МОВНА ПОЛІТИКА В УКРАЇНІ: ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ В ПРИКОРДОННІ РЕГІОНИ. The Ideology and Politics Journal (IPJ).
https://www.ideopol.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Aasland, Aadne ; Holm-Hansen, Jørn (2022). ‘Crimea will forever be Russian’: dissenting Norwegian media discourses on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. European Politics and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2022.2103286

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Muradyan, Olena; Nehaenko, Oksana (2021). Educational Reform and Language Policy in Ukraine: Implementation in the Border Regions. Aasland, Aadne; Kropp, Sabine (Ed.). The Accommodation of Regional and Ethno-cultural Diversity in Ukraine. p. 179-209. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2018). Forced migrant “compatriots” from Ukraine: Accessing legal residency and citizenship in the Russian Federation. Nationalities Papers. Vol. 46.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2018.1488828



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Research reports

Holm-Hansen, Jørn ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Aasland, Aadne (2025). "Why return to Ukraine? An analysis of Ukraine’s evolving return policies and the motivations of refugees to return". ISBN: 9788283094435. 52 p. OsloMet.

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Hjelle, Mathilde Uttersrud ; Hernes, Vilde ; Tronstad, Kristian Rose (2025). Privat bolig i stedet for asylmottak? Erfaringer med oppfølgning og bosetting av ukrainske flyktninger som bodde privat, 2022-2024. ISBN: 9788283094404. 125 p. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR, OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet.

Aasland, Aadne ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2024). Nordmenns holdninger til Russland, russere og norsk russlandspolitikk i perioden 2022 - 2024. 20 p. NIBR.

Hernes, Vilde ; Aasland, Aadne ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Myrvold, Trine (2024). Settlement, integration and employment under a temporary perspective: Experiences and perceptions of Ukrainian refugees and municipal refugee services (2023-2024). ISBN: 9788283094329. 218 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Hernes, Vilde ; Aasland, Aadne ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Liodden, Tone ; Myrvold, Trine ; Leirvik, Mariann Stærkebye ; Danielsen, Åsne Øygard (2023). Reception, settlement and integration of Ukrainian refugees in Norway: Experiences and perceptions of Ukrainian refugees and municipal stakeholders (2022-2023). ISBN: 9788283094091. 222 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Aasland, Aadne ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2023). Nordmenns holdninger til Russland, russere og norsk russlandspolitikk – en spørreundersøkelse. ISBN: 9788283093841. 21 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Hernes, Vilde ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Liodden, Tone ; Staver, Anne Balke (2022). Ukrainian refugees – experiences from the first phase in Norway. ISBN: 9788283093759. 117 p. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR.

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2018). Compatriots into Citizens. Policies and Perceptions of Citizenship Acquisition in Post-Soviet Russia. 192 p. 07 Gruppen.

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2014). Labour Migration from Central Asia to Russia. State Management of Migration. ISBN: 9788283090260. 145 p. By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR.



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Dissemination

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Elena Borisova. Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan. Locating the Good Life. [Economic Exposures in Asia.] UCL Press, London 2024. xviii, 244 pp. Ill. International Review of Social History.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s002085902510093x

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Deineko, Oleksandra ; Filippova, Olga (2025). Navigating collective protection in the Nordic countries: The Experiences and expectations of Ukrainian refugees. The War and Beyond: Perspectives on Ukrainian culture and society. Universitetet i Bergen og Norsk nettverk for Ukrainaforskning.

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Ukrainas uavhengighetsdag.

Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). At russiske myndigheter ønsker å påvirke, betyr ikke at de får det til.
https://doi.org/https://www.aftenposten.no/meninge

Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Russisk påvirkning og Fosensaken.
https://doi.org/https://www.finnmarkdebatten.no/ru

Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Påvirker Putins antitransbevegelse den norske debatten?.
https://doi.org/https://kjonnsforskning.no/nb/2025

Aasland, Aadne ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). RE:Barents: Nordmenns syn på Russland, russere og norsk russlandspolitikk. Barents spektakel. Barentssekretariatet og NIBR (OsloMet).
https://www.sva.no/russland-holdninger-i-ost-finnm

Myhre, Marthe Handå ; Deineko, Oleksandra (2025). Dissimilar Integration Policies in Scandinavia: The Experience of Ukrainian Refugees.
https://doi.org/10.58079/1343h

Berg-Nordlie, Mikkel ; Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Fintet ut av Russland? Putin og Vestens antitrans-bevegelse.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfk.49.1.5

Myhre, Marthe Handå (2025). Responding to broken relations. Public opinion in Norway on Russia’s war on Ukraine, Russia and Russians. Recent developments in the Black Sea region, with special focus on Romania, workshop. Fridtjof Nansen Institute and The Romanian Centre for Russian Studies.



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