About
Monica Five Aarset works as a research professor in the Division for at Childhood, Family and Child Welfare. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Oslo (2015). Her expertise relates in particular to minority families and minority youth. Her research interests include questions of gender, generation, ethnicity, migration and inclusion/exclusion. Her PhD thesis concerns family life and belonging among descendants from immigrants from Pakistan and India in Norway.
Field of study
Gender Migration Religion Family health Integration Generations
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Support Services and Their Work with Conflict, Control and Violence
This project led by NOVA investigates the Norwegian support services and how they handle conflict/violence in families.
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The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.
Completed research projects
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A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders
The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.
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Descendants of Immigrants and the Concerned Welfare State
This project examines the ongoing, relational negotiations between the welfare state and the public's understanding of problems, on the one hand, and processes of change in the minority population, on the other.
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Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres
NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.
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Evaluation of Ritual Circumcision of Boys (RITOM)
This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.
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Exploring Relationships of Trust and Distrust Between Youth Populations and Public Services in Vulnerable Areas (Ungtillit)
The project will contribute to gathering and developing knowledge about what young people's trust and distrust of public helpers is about, an how we can strengthen the relationships.
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Family Counselling: Equal Services for a Diverse Population?
The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.
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Literature Review on Cousin Marriages
Literature review: Research on cousin marriages as seen in the light of the individual right to decide about one's own life.
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Qualify Unification in Europe for Shifting Trust. A Comparative Research on Muslims Responses to the Politics of Threat in France, UK, Spain, and Norway (QUEST)
What does it mean to ‘be Muslim’ in a polarized Europe?
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Rosten, Monika
;
Aarset, Monica Five
(2024).
«Du representerer, mann!» Minoritetsnorske strategier for stigmahåndtering.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nat.35.1.3
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Rosten, Monika Grønli
; Iversen, Ida Sabina
(2024).
Forhandlinger om hva, hvem og hvordan: Minoritetsnorsk ungdom i romantiske relasjoner.
Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning (NTU).
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntu.5.1.3
Aarset, Monica Five
; Engebrigtsen, Ada
(2024).
Motsetninger, forhandlinger og kompromisser: Lov om rituell omskjæring av gutter.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS).
Vol. 65.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfs.65.3.2
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Rosten, Monika Grønli
(2024).
Stuck in Representation. Muslims Participating in the Norwegian Public Sphere.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Vol. 8.
https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.10734
Smette, Ingrid
;
Aarset, Monica Five
(2023).
Parenting in the second generation. The changing family figurations of descendants of Pakistani, Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants in Norway.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2232454
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Smette, Ingrid
;
Rosten, Monika
(2021).
Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway.
Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir; Takle, Marianne; Britt, Slagsvold (Ed.).
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. p. 79-95.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129592-7
Aarset, Monica Five
(2020).
'Holding everyday life together'. Home, family and belonging among descendants of immigrants from India and Pakistan.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 31.
https://doi.org/10.18261/ISSN.1504-2898-2020-01-02
Aarset, Monica Five
(2020).
"Å holde hverdagslivet sammen». Hjem, familie og tilhørighet blant etterkommere av innvandrere fra India og Pakistan.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 31.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2020-01-02
Aarset, Monica Five
; Lidén, Hilde
(2017).
Historiens betydning for rom og romanifolks/tateres situasjon i dag.
Brandal, Nik.; Døving, Cora Alexa; Plesner, Ingvill Thorson (Ed.).
Nasjonale minoriteter og urfolk i norsk politikk fra 1900 til 2016. p. 201-218.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3369681
Aarset, Monica Five
(2017).
Conditional belonging: Middle-class ethnic minorities in Norway.
Bendixsen, Synnøve Kristine Nepstad; Bringslid, Mary Bente; Vike, Halvard (Ed.).
Egalitarianism in Scandinavia. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. p. 291-313.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59791-1_13
