About
Marie Louise Seeberg is a social anthropologist and Research Professor specialising in migration studies, in collaboration with national and international partners. She has extensive qualitative research expertise and long-standing experience in ethnographic fieldwork and in conducting interviews with children and adults. Her work includes substantial interdisciplinary collaboration and the combination of multiple methodological approaches. Her research includes, among other topics, children with refugee backgrounds, asylum seekers’ migration through Europe, health worker migration, housing conditions among labour migrants, children’s everyday lives and living conditions in asylum reception centres, ethnic relations in school and working life, and Vietnamese refugee families in Norway. Seeberg has worked as a commissioned researcher since 1999 and has conducted research for a wide range of Norwegian public-sector clients, in addition to several projects funded by the Research Council of Norway and the EU.
Field of study
Migration Refugees Immigration Childhood School Asylum seekers Ethnic relations Labour migration Migration and family Health workerrs Children and younge people and participation
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Children with a Refugee Background – Measures for Inclusion and Belonging (Barnfluk)
The project aims to discover the experiences children and young people who come to Norway as refugees have with the settlement and integration process, and how municipalities work with this group.
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Complementary Pathways for Adult Refugees: The Role of VET, Skills and Qualifications
The aim of the project is to increase the evidence base which can support policy- and decision-making in EU MS in designing and implementing complementary pathway mechanisms for admission of adult refugees from a first host country to an EU country through use of VET, skills and qualifications.
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Equality and Multiculturalism
A comparative study of Norwegian and Dutch processes of alterity and identity.
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Food2Gather: Exploring foodscapes as public places for integration
FOOD2GATHER investigates the roles food play in creating public spaces, shaping opportunities for communication and relations between places and the peoples that inhabit it.
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From Settlement to Adult Life. A Study of the Service Chain for Unaccompanied Minor Refugees
The research project will provide up-to-date knowledge about the services offered to young refugees who have come as unaccompanied minors and who have achieved residency in Norway.
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Global Care Workers in the Norwegian Welfare State: Care Chains, Intersectionality and Social Capital
In this project, attention is drawn to the careers of two groups of migrant care workers in Norway, nurses and au pairs, to the structures that have formed their careers, as well as to the impact on the care institutions of recruiting care workers from abroad.
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Local Match in Refugee Resettlement
This project aims to discover how the government can better match newly arrived refugees with Norwegian municipalities through better linking of settlement, skills, and labour needs.
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Migration for Welfare: Nurses within Three Regimes of Immigration and Integration into the Norwegian Welfare State (WELLMIG)
WELLMIG brings together the perspectives that migrants not only depend on, but also make significant contributions to the welfare state.
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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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Review of Norwegian Research on Ethnic Discrimination of Children and Young People
The project includes a review of relevant research contributions that deal with ethnic discrimination against children and adolescents in Norway.
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Work Places in the Health Care Sector: Gender, Class, Ethnicity
The starting point for this project was the growing recruitment of immigrants to the Norwegian health care sector.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Prabhat, Devyani;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2024).
‘Firm but fair’? Migrant children’s rights through dramaturgy and nation branding in Norway and the UK.
Comparative Migration Studies.
Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-024-00394-z
Pawlak, Marek;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2024).
Polish nurses in Norway: Migration for “normal” work–life balance.
International migration.
https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13282
Heggebø, Kristian
; Tolgensbakk, Ida;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
;
Bell, Justyna
(2019).
Nei, innvandring har ikke redusert sosial mobilitet i Norge.
Forskning.no.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4707153
Vaughn, Taylor;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
;
Gotehus, Aslaug
(2019).
Waiting: Migrant nurses in Norway.
Time & Society.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X19880145
Horak, Pavel; Horakova, Marketa;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
;
Jessen, Jorunn Theresia
(2017).
Care policies and governance in Norway and the Czech Republic.
Sirovatka, Tomáš; Valkova, Jana (Ed.).
Understanding Care Policies in Changing Times:Experiences and Lessons from the Czech Republic and Norway. p. 55-86.
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3753884
Seeberg, Marie Louise
;
Jessen, Jorunn Theresia
(2017).
Providing care services: strategies of key actors and emerging policy change in Norway.
Sirovatka, Tomáš; Valkova, Jana (Ed.).
Understanding Care Policies in Changing Times:Experiences and Lessons from the Czech Republic and Norway. p. 115-134.
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4665702
Bjørnholt, Margunn;
Stefansen, Kari
; Gashi, Liridona;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2017).
Balancing acts: Policy frameworks and family care strategies in Norway.
Sirovatka, Tomáš; Valkova, Jana (Ed.).
Understanding Care Policies in Changing Times:Experiences and Lessons from the Czech Republic and Norway. p. 161-184.
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4941780
Hydle, Ida Marie
;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2017).
Difference as culture: Roots and implications of a mode of framing.
Pali, Brunilda; Aertsen, Ivo (Ed.).
Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe.
Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5040534
Sirovatka, Tomáš; Valkova, Jana;
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2017).
Conclusions.
Sirovatka, Tomáš; Valkova, Jana (Ed.).
Understanding Care Policies in Changing Times:Experiences and Lessons from the Czech Republic and Norway. p. 209-232.
Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4901052
Seeberg, Marie Louise
(2017).
Alt er relativt: ytelser til barnefamilier i norske asylmottak, 1989–2017.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
Vol. 20.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2464-3076-2017-04-02
